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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The speaker of Russias parliament said a senior Chechen commander was alive and well on Wednesday, following reports he had been killed or wounded in Ukraine.

ANKARA, June 14 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said his newly appointed Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek will take unspecified steps swiftly with the central bank, but that it was a mistake to suggest Erdogan had changed his own...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling coalition moved on Wednesday to delay picking two new members of a panel that appoints judges, angering opposition parties who had expected to be given a seat. Opposition parties said the move could jeopardise talks on a compromise over Netanyahu's proposed judicial changes, which have triggered unprecedented protests and a fall in the shekel currency. "Netanyahu has lost control of his government and is bei...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia confirmed on Wednesday it had bought 12 Mirage 2000-5 fighter jets previously used by Qatar, defending the nearly $800 million deal as a fast way to upgrade the air force after it was criticised by lawmakers who said the planes were too old.

Israel's Judiciary Plans on the Line With Knesset Vote on Panel Members

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia confirmed on Wednesday it had bought 12 Mirage 2000-5 fighter jets previously used by Qatar, defending the nearly $800 m...

KRYVYI RIH, Ukraine (Reuters) - A Russian missile strike killed at least six civilians in an apartment building in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiys hometown on Tuesday, while Moscows forces yielded ground in the early stages of a Ukrainian counteroffensive.

By Vitalii Hnidyi NESKUCHNE, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukraine's blue and yellow flag flew over a ruined grocery store and Russian soldiers lay dead in the street of the village of Neskuchne, reached by Reuters journalists on Tuesday in the first independent confirmation of Ukraine's biggest advances for seven months against Russia's invasion. Russia has not acknowledged any Ukrainian gains, and

(Reuters) - Russias Defence Ministry said on Monday it has signed a contract with the Akhmat group of Chechen special forces, a day after Russias ...

Russia's Defence Ministry said on Monday it has signed a contract with the Akhmat group of Chechen special forces, a day after Russia's powerful mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin refused to do so.