DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran confirmed the arrest of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala for “violating the laws of the Islamic Republic”, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported on Monday. Sala, 29, who works for the newspaper Il Foglio and the podcast company Chora Media, was detained in Tehran on Dec. 19, according to the Italian foreign …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Dominique Pelicot, sentenced to 20 years in jail by a French court for repeatedly drugging and raping his then-wife Gisele for almost a decade and inviting dozens of strangers to rape her, will not appeal, his lawyer said on Monday, although a new trial will take place as 17 co-defendants have appealed. …
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OSLO (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter should be praised for his “decades of untiring effort” to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts and to advance democracy and human rights, the body awarding the Nobel Peace Prize said on Monday. Carter, who was president of the United States from 1977 to 1981, died on Sunday …
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BELGRADE (Reuters) – Prosecutors in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad filed an indictment on Monday against 13 people in connection with the collapse of a railway station awning last month that killed 15 people and sparked a wave of protests. The concrete awning of the recently renovated roof caved in on Nov. 1, …
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HELSINKI (Reuters) – The Finnish coast guard said on Monday it was deploying one of its patrol vessels and a tugboat to assist an oil tanker that suffered engine failure in the Gulf of Finland, seeking to prevent environmental damage. The 183-metre (600 feet) Panama-flagged M/T Jazz oil tanker had been drifting south of Finland’s …
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PARIS (Reuters) – At least three migrants died in the Channel off northern France on Sunday as a group of around 50 people tried to set off in a small boat heading for Britain, authorities said. The incident occurred at Sangatte at around 6 a.m. (0500 GMT) during a series of attempted crossings by migrants …
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ZURICH (Reuters) – The head of the World Health Organization on Monday called for an end to attacks on hospitals in Gaza after Israel struck one and raided another in the past few days. “Hospitals in Gaza have once again become battlegrounds and the health system is under severe threat,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus …
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Romania’s new coalition government will make a series of tax hikes and caps on public sector wages and pensions via emergency decree on Monday, in a move to lower the EU’s largest budget deficit as a percentage of gross domestic product. The prospect of presidential and parliamentary elections in central Europe’s second-largest economy …
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ZAGREB (Reuters) -Incumbent president Zoran Milanovic won the most votes in the first round of Croatia’s presidential election on Sunday but fell just short of a majority and will have to go to a second round, results from the State Electoral Commission (DIP) showed. Milanovic, the opposition Social Democrats’ candidate, won 49.1% support after ballots …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in good condition and fully conscious after his prostate surgery ended “successfully,” his office said on Sunday. “The Prime Minister has now been transferred to a protected underground recovery unit. He is expected to remain in the hospital for observation in the next few days,” his …
