News in Brief

Date: 09 May 2025 - 22:43

News ID: ۱۳۹۳۵۲

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday slammed U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade policies and sweeping tariffs, saying they harm multilateralism as he met with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow. “The latest decisions by the U.S. president to unilaterally put tariffs on trade with all countries in the world undermine the great idea of free trade and strengthening multilateralism,” Lula said during a bilateral meeting with Putin. Lula intends to strengthen Brazil’s strategic partnership with Russia, citing “political, commercial, cultural, scientific and technological interests” as he sees room to increase trade.

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KYIV (AP) - Ukraine’s main security agency said Friday it had arrested two people on suspicion of spying for Hungary by gathering intelligence on Ukraine’s military in the west of the country. In a statement, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said that two suspects, both former members of the Ukrainian military, had been detained and face charges of treason, which is punishable by life imprisonment. It was the first time in Ukraine’s history that a Hungarian espionage operation had been discovered, the statement said.

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OTTAWA (AFP) -- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen spoke Thursday about strengthening defense ties between their two countries, according to a statement from Carney’s office. “The leaders discussed working together to strengthen collective defense and security, including as close partners in the Arctic and at NATO,” it said, noting that both sides looked forward to deepening their relationship and agreed to stay in close contact. Both countries are under the threat of U.S. annexation. US President Donald Trump recently renewed his threat of taking over Greenland, once a Danish colony and now an autonomous territory in Denmark. In an NBC News interview, Trump said he would not “rule it out” making the island a part of the United States.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - A helicopter crash in Sri Lanka has killed six military personnel, an Air Force official said on Friday. A Bell 212 helicopter had crashed into the Maduru Oya reservoir in central Sri Lanka with a dozen armed forces personnel on board. Six died after they were rescued and rushed to hospital, Sri Lanka Air Force spokesman Group Captain Eranda Geeganage said. “The helicopter was assigned to conduct a grappling exercise at a passing-out parade. Four special forces personnel and two Air Force gunmen died of their injuries,” Geeganage told Reuters.

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LONDON (Reuters) - The cause of the fire at an electricity substation that forced Britain’s Heathrow Airport to shut down for almost a day remains unknown, the National Energy System Operator said in an interim report. The closure of Heathrow, the busiest airport in Europe, on March 21 cost airlines tens of millions of pounds and stranded thousands of passengers. It also raised questions about the resilience of Britain’s infrastructure. NESO, which manages the country’s electricity network, said it would produce a final report on the outage in June, with recommendations on the resilience of energy systems and plans for response and restoration.