(Reuters) – Eddy Merckx, the most successful rider in the sport of cycling, suffered a fractured hip in a fall from his bike on Monday, according to Belgian media reports. The 79-year-old winner of 11 Grand Tours, was cycling with a group when the incident happened near Hombeek, Mechelen. The Belgian retired in 1978, having …
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch F-35 fighter jets intercepted three Russian aircraft over the Baltic Sea on Friday and escorted them at a distance over international waters to the border of the NATO area of ​​responsibility, the Dutch defence ministry said on Monday. Since December, Dutch F-35s have been patrolling NATO’s eastern border. As part of …
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DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s two largest centre-right parties will begin talks on forming a new government this week before seeking support of a junior partner to reach a majority in parliament, their leaders said after a meeting on Monday. Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, Ireland’s dominant parties who led the outgoing government, fell just two …
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TBILISI (Reuters) – Violent clashes in Georgia between the police and protesters in recent weeks and “unacceptable” police brutality against the demonstrators present clear grounds for the European Union to impose sanctions, the EU ambassador to Georgia said on Monday. “What has been happening in Georgia over the last 12 days clearly calls for sanctions …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Catalan separatist party Junts introduced a measure in Spain’s lower house on Monday urging Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to submit to a motion of confidence, further straining the fragile minority government that relies on Junts backing to pass laws. Junts – which locked horns with Madrid over a failed 2017 bid to …
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JARANDILLA DE LA VERA, Spain (Reuters) – Processions of people wielding flaming brooms may sound like something out of magic tales, but those used to light up a Spanish town every year are the real thing – and there is no witchcraft involved, just fun. Every year on Dec. 7, the inhabitants of Jarandilla de …
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By Lili Bayer and Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europe needs to find ways within the next year to fund hundreds of billions of euros in extra military spending to defend against any attack from Russia by the end of the decade, the European Union’s new defence commissioner has said. Andrius Kubilius, a former prime …
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By Kate Abnett and Alison Withers BRUSSELS (Reuters) -This year will be the world’s warmest since records began, with extraordinarily high temperatures expected to persist into at least the first few months of 2025, European Union scientists said on Monday. The data from the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) comes two weeks after U.N. …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will limit engagement with the Georgian government and restrict defence cooperation, Foreign Secretary David Lammy said on Monday in a statement condemning violence against protestors and journalists there. The South Caucasus country of 3.7 million people has been rocked by protests since late November after the ruling Georgian Dream party announced …
By Andrew Osborn and Maxim Rodionov (Reuters) -Syria’s former President Bashar al-Assad is in Moscow with his family after Russia granted them asylum on humanitarian grounds, a Kremlin source told Russian news agencies on Sunday, and a deal has been done to ensure the safety of Russian military bases. Russia’s Foreign Ministry said earlier that …
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