MADRID (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez said on Tuesday he was convinced he would return from Spain to his country in time to be sworn in as president on Jan. 10. “You don’t go to war with fear, which is why I’m convinced I will somehow travel to Venezuela to take over,” Gonzalez …
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By Reade Levinson LONDON (Reuters) – Satellite imagery show that Russian naval ships have left Moscow’s base at Tartous on Syria’s coast and some have dropped anchor offshore following the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by rebel forces. An image taken on Dec. 9 by Planet Labs showed at least three vessels in Russia’s …
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By Ramiro Scandolo and Vincent Daheron BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -An Argentine court dismissed aggravated rape charges against French international rugby players Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou on Tuesday, drawing a line under a dark period for the European country’s rugby community. Auradou and Jegou, both 21, had been under investigation since July 12 for alleged …
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By Julia Payne BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU envoys will discuss on Wednesday the first potential sanctions targeting Russian hybrid threats such as undermining elections, cyber attacks and economic sabotage, EU diplomats said. A list of 16 individuals and 3 entities could be added to a new sanctions framework agreed in October in response to a …
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(Reuters) – The Norwegian Football Federation (NFF) on Tuesday said it will vote against FIFA’s awarding of hosting rights for the 2030 and 2034 World Cups by acclamation, adding that it had formally criticised the process in a letter to the world governing body. Votes are due to be held at FIFA’s virtual extraordinary Congress …
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch police have arrested three people following an explosion that killed six people and injured four in an apartment building in The Hague, the police said on Tuesday. A criminal investigation has been launched into the cause of Saturday’s blast, which caused the apartment building to collapse and destroyed several neighbouring buildings …
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By Nora Buli OSLO (Reuters) – Young people must take up the fight for a nuclear-free world, with such weapons many times more powerful than in the past, a representative for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, atomic bomb survivors’ group Nihon Hidankyo, said on Tuesday. Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of survivors of the …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spain will keep processing asylum requests from Syrian nationals as usual following Sunday’s fall of President Bashar al-Assad, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said on Tuesday. Some European countries, including Germany and France, have suspended the processing of applications by Syrians, but Albares said there was no need to change the approach …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British finance minister Rachel Reeves said she wanted government departments to find 5% savings in their budgets in an attempt to cut waste and focus on policy priorities, in an overhaul how the public sector works ahead of a spending review. The Treasury said in a statement that every pound the government spends …
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(Reuters) – Farmers in the European Union will be able to get more state aid without regulatory oversight under new rules approved on Tuesday, the European Commision said. The new rules amend existing regulations that exempt small amounts of support in the agricultural sector from state aid control, since they are deemed to have no …
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