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STOCKHOLM, June 10 (Reuters) – Swedish prosecutors have charged a 34-year-old man with attempted espionage for Russia, the Nordic country’s prosecution authority said on Wednesday. It said in a statement that the man previously worked in the armed forces where he had access to highly classified information. “The suspect attempted to disclose (the information) by …
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — This election year is déjà vu for Sen. Susan Collins — the Maine Republican is running for reelection as Democrats pin their hopes on a new candidate to defeat her. Last time, it was state lawmaker Sara Gideon. This time, it’s combat veteran and oyster farmer Graham Platner. But Collins has …
MOSCOW, June 10 (Reuters) – Russia on Wednesday condemned an EU decision to authorise EU military vessels in the Mediterranean to stop and inspect foreign ships suspected of being part of a “shadow fleet” transporting Russian oil, and said it would take all necessary legal and other measures to protect them. The EU said on …
One of the world’s wealthiest men will appear Wednesday before the congressional panel investigating Jeffrey Epstein and his associates. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will sit for the transcribed interview after revelations about his relationship with Epstein rocked his philanthropic foundation. Gates apologized in February to staff at the Gates Foundation for his ties to Epstein, …
BARCELONA, June 10 (Reuters) – Pope Leo, who has forcefully advocated for the rights of prisoners, visited one of Spain’s largest prisons on Wednesday, urging the inmates to make amends for their crimes and commit to living better lives. Speaking to detainees at a penitentiary outside Barcelona, in the first visit of a pope to …
By Brenda Goh and Liz Lee SEOUL/BEIJING, June 10 (Reuters) – North Korea and China both walked away claiming major wins from Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit this week to the isolated state, which helped elevate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s global stature and pulled Pyongyang more tightly into China’s orbit. The two countries each …
TAICHUNG, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s military fired rockets in China’s direction from “shoot-and-scoot” mobile launchers on Wednesday in a demonstration of how it might try to repel a Chinese attack. While the U.S.-supplied system known as HIMARS has been tested before, the latest live-fire exercise was the first time its rockets were fired into the …
MOSCOW, June 10 (Reuters) – Russia’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday that cooperation with Syria was developing very actively and that Moscow was discussing with Damascus a “possible reformatting” of its military facilities in Syria. The December 2024 ousting of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a close Russian ally, raised questions about the future of Russia’s …
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A World Cup referee from Somalia who was denied entry to the United States was received by a crowd of supporters and officials Wednesday as he arrived in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu, where he said he plans to be at the next World Cup and urged Somali youths to be proud …
By Amanda Ferguson and Will Russell BELFAST, June 10 (Reuters) – Masked men burned families out of their homes in Belfast and torched a number of vehicles in a wave of anti-immigrant violence on Tuesday night that followed a knife attack by a Sudanese man. Hundreds of protesters, many with their faces covered, attacked police …