Aug 22 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said in comments published on Saturday that Kyiv had opened "Pandora's box" with its strikes on Russian economic targets, saying that Russia would hit back at Ukraine's "most sensitive economic sectors".
Ukraine has this summer escalated a campaign of drone strikes targeting Russian economic infrastructure, including oil refineries and online retailers' warehouses, seeking to destroy infrastructure... (continue reading...)
Aug 22 (Reuters) - Two U.S. tanker aircraft have left Bulgaria’s Bezmer air base, Bulgaria's defence minister said on Saturday, nearly a month after their deployment in the Balkan country angered Iran.
The United States, which has been at war with Iran since February 28, requested their temporary deployment under an agreement governing the joint use of military facilities.
Iran said at the time that their deployment would constitute... (continue reading...)
BELGRADE, Aug 22 (Reuters) - The European Union’s Civil Protection Mechanism sent helicopters and firefighters to help Serbia fight a massive wildfire in a nature reserve in the northeast of the country, the head of the EU mission to Belgrade said on Saturday.
Serbia activated the mechanism on Friday after struggling for weeks with a wildfire in Deliblatska Pescara, a unique mixture of sand dunes and woods about 80 km (50 miles) from the capital... (continue reading...)
(Corrects headline to reflect police have no official estimate and text to indicate eyewitnesses' estimates.)
LAGOS, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Armed men abducted several worshippers from a mosque in Nigeria's north-central Niger state during Friday prayers, police said on Saturday, in the latest mass kidnapping in a region plagued by violent gangs.
Police spokesperson Wasiu Abiodun said the attackers stormed Kpenya Mosque in the Dekara... (continue reading...)
KYIV, Aug 22 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron has promised to accelerate the delivery of new French equipment to Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday, following a call in which they discussed Kyiv's shortage of air defences.
Zelenskiy said he had spoken for almost two hours with Macron, who expressed his willingness to intercede on Ukraine's behalf with allies who had stocks of U.S.-made Patriot interceptors.
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