By Essi Lehto HELSINKI (Reuters) -A Finnish court on Friday denied a request for the release of an oil tanker suspected by police of damaging an undersea power line and four telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea last week. Finland on Dec. 26 seized the Eagle S tanker carrying Russian oil on suspicion that it …
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede emphasised his desire to pursue independence from Denmark, its former colonial ruler, during his New Year speech, marking a significant change in the rhetoric surrounding the Arctic island’s future. Egede’s speech, which comes on the heels of comments by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump expressing his wish for …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland decided not to invite Hungary’s ambassador to an event on Friday launching Warsaw’s EU presidency after Budapest gave asylum to a former deputy minister who is under investigation over alleged misuse of public funds, a senior official said. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was also not invited to the ceremony in …
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(Reuters) -A Russian court has ordered internet company Yandex to hide access to maps and photos of one of Russia’s largest oil refineries due to repeated attacks by Ukrainian drones, state news agency TASS reported on Friday. Yandex, often referred to as “Russia’s Google”, operates the country’s largest search engine and other online services like …
(Reuters) – Spain ended 2024 with 2.56 million people unemployed, the fewest in December since 2007, the Labour Ministry said on Friday on its website. The number of people in Spain registering as jobless fell 0.98% in December from a month earlier, or by 25,300 people, the ministry said. The number was 5.4% lower than …
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ROME (Reuters) – The United Nations’ world food price index dipped in December against November levels, led lower by a drop in international sugar quotations, but still showed a robust gain year-on-year, data showed on Friday. The index, compiled by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to track the most globally traded food commodities, …
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By Rich McKay and Hannah Lang (Reuters) -Officials on Thursday positively identified the person found dead inside the Cybertruck that exploded outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas as a U.S. Army soldier from Colorado, while the FBI said it was not yet clear if the blast was an act of terrorism. The FBI …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Russia launched a barrage of drones in an overnight attack on Ukraine on Friday, killing one civilian and injuring four others in the Kyiv region, the military and regional officials said. Ukrainian air defences shot down 60 out of 93 Russian drones, the air force said. It also said that 26 drones …
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By Mark Trevelyan and Alexander Tanas (Reuters) -The cut-off of Russian gas supplies to Moldova’s breakaway Transdniestria region has forced the closure of all industrial companies except food producers, an official said on Thursday. The mainly Russian-speaking territory of about 450,000 people, which split from Moldova in the 1990s as the Soviet Union collapsed, has …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Clauda Tanios CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli airstrikes killed at least 68 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including at a tent camp where the head of the enclave’s Hamas-controlled police force, his deputy and nine displaced people died, Gaza authorities said. Israel said the deputy was the head of Palestinian …
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