Europe

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday that he plans to travel to North Macedonia later this week to attend a conference, a trip that would mark his first visit to a NATO member country since Moscow sent troops to Ukraine.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is receiving antibiotics intravenously to treat a lung inflammation and will scale back some appointments, but he doesn’t have pneumonia or fever, the Vatican said Monday.

Francis himself on Sunday revealed that he was suffering from the inflammation problem, explaining why he didn’t keep his weekly window appointment to greet people in St. Peter’s Square. Instead, he gave his blessing from the chapel of the hotel on Vatican grounds where he lives.

LONDON (AP) —Elon Musk, who’s been under fire over accusations of antisemitism flourishing on his social media platform X, paid a visit Monday to Israel, where he toured a kibbutz that was attacked last month by Hamas militants and was set to meet with top leaders.

The billionaire and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toured the Kfar Azza kibbutz, a rural village that Hamas militants stormed on Oct. 7 in a deadly assault that launched the war.

MOSCOW, November 26. /TASS/: The Russian Air Defense means destroyed four more Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over Bryansk, Smolensk and Tula Regions, the Defense Ministry reported.

The number of drones downed on Sunday climbed therefore to twenty-four.

MOSCOW, November 26. /TASS/: Gazprom set a new record of gas supplies to China over the Power of Siberia gas pipeline, the gas giant reports.

The previous maximum was achieved on November 23.

"On November 25, the nomination of the Chinese side for Russian gas supplies over the Power of Siberia gas pipeline was again above daily contractual commitments. Gazprom supplied all the requested volumes and set a new historical record of daily gas supplies to China," the company informed.

MOSCOW, November 26. /TASS/: Certain Western countries are attempting to destabilize the situation around Nagorno-Karabakh and are openly struggling against Russia in the region, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview on the Rossiya-1 TV channel.

MOSCOW, November 26. /TASS/: The integrated air defense (AD) system of member-states of the Collective Security Organization (CSTO) has actually been created, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on the air with the Rossiya-1 TV channel.

"It [the integrated AD system - TASS] has actually been created, created at a bilateral level. We have an agreement <...> with each country. This is with Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and naturally with Belarus," the minister said.

MOSCOW, November 26. /TASS/: The coup occurred in Kiev a decade ago and the legitimate power was overthrown, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview on the Rossiya-1 TV channel.

"It brought the flourishing of ultranationalist and then overtly Nazi sentiment to Ukraine. Then it brought emergency of such regime in Kiev that turned out to be dangerous for us, became dangerous for a portion of its people - the Russians are met - and [it] regrettably continues by tragedies we observing every day in Ukraine," Peskov said.

KYIV, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Ukraine needs more air defences to protect its grain export routes as well as regions bordering Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday, as he addressed an international summit on food security in Kyiv.

"There is a deficit of air defence - that is no secret," Zelenskiy told the Grain from Ukraine summit, which was attended by senior officials from European countries, including Swiss President Alain Berset and Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte.

Nov 24 (Reuters) - The European Union is dealing with an increase in legal and illegal arrivals by migrants, prompting some member states to temporarily re-introduce border controls within what is normally a zone of free movement.

The bloc's Schengen rules allow such action "as a last resort" in cases that are deemed serious threats to internal security or public policy.

These countries have reinstated stricter checks:

* Austria introduced checks at its border with the Czech Republic in October, set to last until Dec. 6.