By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) – Moldova said on Friday it will curb power exports and introduce measures to reduce consumption by at least a third from Jan. 1, as it prepares for an end to Russian natural gas supplies. The country has been preparing for potential power cuts since Ukraine said it would not …
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ROME (Reuters) -Italy said on Friday it was making every effort to bring home a journalist who has been under arrest in Iran for more than a week, as politicians of all stripes expressed their concern. Cecilia Sala, 29, who works for the newspaper Il Foglio and the podcast company Chora Media, was detained in …
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By Hyunsu Yim and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s parliament impeached acting President Han Duck-soo on Friday, less than two weeks after suspending President Yoon Suk Yeol’s powers over his short-lived declaration of martial law, plunging the country deeper into political chaos. The impeachment of prime minister Han, the acting president since Yoon was …
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(Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck the Kuril Islands on Friday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 145 km (90.1 miles), GFZ said. The islands have been characterised by a territorial dispute between Russia and Japan, which dates back to the end of World War …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – German police searched residences connected to four suspected members of a right-wing youth organisation on Friday who were arrested for attacking election campaigners for the Social Democratic Party (SPD) at a bus stop earlier this month. Police confiscated mobile devices, right-wing propaganda and balaclavas, among other items, during searches of 10 residences …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Eugene Spector, a U.S. citizen jailed for a total of 15 years this week after a Moscow court convicted him of espionage, was found guilty of passing biotechnology secrets to the United States, Russia’s FSB security service said on Friday. Russian state news agencies reported on Tuesday that Spector, who was born …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Norwegian shipping company on Friday rejected an accusation from Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, that it refused to rescue sailors from a sinking Russian cargo ship in the Mediterranean Sea. Medvedev earlier on Friday had accused the Norwegian-flagged Oslo Carrier 3 of not coming to the aid of …
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By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) – Centuries-old international maritime law has to be updated to outlaw damage to undersea infrastructure such as cables and pipelines, the Estonian justice minister told Reuters after cables connecting it to Finland were again damaged this week. Finnish authorities on Thursday seized a ship carrying Russian oil in the Baltic …
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By Amel Emric and Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Every Friday, folk musician Enes Salman performs the Sevdalinka, an ancient form of love song from Bosnia and Herzegovina that this month was included in UNESCO’s National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Sevdalinka, often referred to as the Balkan Blues, is a melancholic urban love song …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine, a global producer and exporter of grain and oilseeds, has sent its first batch of food aid to Syria, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday. Zelenskiy said that 500 metric tons of wheat flour were already on their way to Syria as part of Ukraine’s humanitarian “Grain from Ukraine” initiative in …
