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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Two launch units for anti-tank guided missiles recovered by a Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen appear to have been manufactured in Iran during 2016 and 2017, according to a confidential United Nations report seen by Reuters on Tuesday. But U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres does not specifically state whether the discovery of…

BERLIN (Reuters) – The identity card, issued more than three decades ago by East Germany’s Stasi secret police, would be of little interest were it not for the name of the man staring out: Vladimir Putin. The card was issued in 1986 when Putin was a mid-ranking KGB spy stationed in Dresden in communist East…

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Kremlin critics accused President Vladimir Putin of hypocrisy for attending the wake on Tuesday of a veteran Soviet and Russian dissident who was a staunch critic of his administration. Putin has been accused by rights groups of muzzling the media, jailing his opponents and clamping down on civil society over the 19…

PARIS (Reuters) – France is on course to overshoot the European Union’s budget deficit ceiling next year without new spending cuts after President Emmanuel Macron caved in to anti-government street protests. Macron announced wage increases for the poorest workers and a tax cut for most pensioners on Monday to defuse discontent, leaving his government scrambling…

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli police shot and killed a Palestinian driver who they said tried to ram his vehicle into a group of officers in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the man’s death, but gave no further details of the incident near the city of Hebron. “A suspect Palestinian…

BERLIN (Reuters) – German leader Angela Merkel ruled out further negotiations on Brexit on Tuesday but said efforts were being made to give Britain reassurances after Prime Minister Theresa May abruptly pulled a parliamentary vote at home because she faced defeat. With less than four months left until the United Kingdom is due to leave…

STRASBOURG (Reuters) – The European Commission decided on Tuesday to offer Switzerland six additional months to agree on a new treaty that will govern the country’s future relations with the European Union, two EU sources told Reuters. The political decision, to be formalized after talks with EU leaders in Brussels this week, would allow Swiss…

RIMBO, Sweden (Reuters) – The United Nations proposed at initial talks between Yemen’s warring parties on Tuesday that they withdraw from the contested port city of Hodeidah, a lifeline for millions facing famine, and place it under the control of an interim entity. It was not clear if the Iran-aligned Houthi movement and the Saudi-backed…

GENEVA (Reuters) – A prisoner swap in Yemen will take weeks and may involve the repatriation of third country nationals captured in the nearly four-year war, a senior official of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Tuesday. Yemen’s Houthi movement and the Saudi-backed government on Tuesday exchanged lists of some 15,000…

LONDON (Reuters) – Steve Bray is already hard at work when dawn breaks over London, waving anti-Brexit banners behind television crews reporting live outside Westminster. The 49-year-old’s signs protesting against Britain’s departure from the European Union are a regular backdrop to news footage shot outside parliament, as are his loud cries of “Stop Brexit”, aimed…