DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris is set to call a parliamentary election on Friday, Deputy Prime Minister Micheál Martin said. Harris has already said he will name the date this week and has been been laying the ground for an early election since last month’s 10.5 billion euro budget giveaway. The vote …
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SARAJEVO (Reuters) – The United States on Wednesday expanded sanctions against an individual and an entity who have helped Bosnian Serb nationalist leader Milorad Dodik and his son evade existing U.S. sanctions, the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement. Dodik, the pro-Russian president of Bosnia’s autonomous Serb Republic (RS) who has long advocated the …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Israeli military said on Wednesday aid organizations had completed a second polio vaccination round for children in Gaza, administering more than 1.1 million vaccinations in different areas of the enclave, achieving 90% coverage. Limits on the area covered by a humanitarian pause in the fighting to conduct the campaign, meant the …
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By John Irish, Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) -The European Union must be united and coordinate closely in view of Donald Trump’s coming return to the White House, the leaders of the bloc’s two main powers, Germany and France, said on Wednesday after holding talks to coordinate their response. French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor …
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By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans won control of the U.S. Senate with victories in Montana, Ohio and West Virginia on Wednesday, ensuring Donald Trump’s party will control at least one chamber of Congress next year. Republicans were set to hold a majority of at least 52-48 in the U.S. Senate and had added …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said on Wednesday that only developments on the battlefield, not political moves, would bring an end to the hostilities between the Lebanese armed group and the Israeli military. “I will tell you very clearly, our conviction is that only one thing can stop this war of aggression, and …
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(Reuters) – World leaders congratulated Republican Donald Trump on Wednesday after he won the U.S. presidential election, capping a stunning political comeback four years after he left the White House. See also, views from financial market participants. VOLODYMYR ZELENSKIY, PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE “I appreciate President Trump’s commitment to the ‘peace through strength’ approach in global …
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By Rachel More BERLIN (Reuters) -The Alternative for Germany, a far-right party polling second nationally, will expel three members arrested for suspected involvement in an extremist group accused by prosecutors of planning an armed revolt, the party said on Wednesday. The AfD said it would initiate court proceedings to kick out “members affected by the …
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(Reuters) – Greece has recovered the bodies of four migrants – three men and a woman – after a boat sank off the island of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea, the country’s coastguard said on Wednesday. Another 25 people have been located on land by the Greek police, with a search-and-rescue operation ongoing, it added. …
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ROME (Reuters) – An Italian navy ship set sail for Albania on Wednesday carrying a second small group of migrants, with Rome looking to salvage a controversial plan to process asylum seekers abroad after a first attempt hit legal hurdles. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government hopes that taking boat migrants to guarded camps in Albania …
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