TBILISI (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Tuesday that the election in Georgia won by the ruling party was free and democratic, as he congratulated his Georgian counterpart Irakli Kobakhidze during a visit to Tbilisi. Thousands of people protested outside Georgia’s parliament in Tbilisi on Monday after reports of voting irregularities. The …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spain appointed a new ambassador to Buenos Aires on Tuesday, five months after having withdrawn its envoy in a diplomatic dispute over Argentine President Javier Milei’s derogatory comments about the wife of Spanish premier Pedro Sanchez. Without directly referring to the incident, the foreign ministries of Spain and Argentina vowed in a …
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KYIV (Reuters) – At least four people were killed and another six injured in Russia’s waves of overnight attacks on Ukraine’s two largest cities of Kharkiv and Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday. Another two were killed and seven injured in Russian shelling on Kherson city in southern Ukraine in the morning, a local governor …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Protesters torched cars and attacked police in a new night of trouble on the French Caribbean island of Martinique, the local government said on Tuesday, as violent demonstrations over rising living costs show no signs of abating. The Martinique administration said seven cars had been burned and police attacked with stones and …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili called on Tuesday for international pressure to force a review of parliamentary elections she said were rigged. Official results said the governing Georgian Dream party won nearly 54% of the vote, but Zourabichvili and pro-Western opposition parties have rejected this. Thousands of people protested on Monday night in …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – European power grid network ENTSO-E said on Tuesday it plans to increase export capacity to Ukraine and Moldova to 2.1 gigawatts (GW) from Dec. 1. With most of its power capacity destroyed or occupied due to Russian attacks on energy infrastructure since 2022, Ukraine’s power supply shortfall could reach 6 GW this …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A military factory of German concern Rheinmetall which opened in Ukraine in late October could become a target for Russian attacks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. When asked about the plant, Peskov said it would ‘of course’ be a legitimate target. Rheinmetall said that it was not the first such …
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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Tuesday it had taken two eastern Ukrainian towns and open-source data indicated that Moscow’s forces were advancing at their fastest pace in at least a year amid signs the conflict is drawing in new players such as North Korea. The 2-1/2-year-old war in Ukraine is entering what …
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By Andreas Rinke, Christian Kraemer and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced this month a summit of industry leaders to discuss how to save Germany’s flailing economy. A week later the economy minister laid out his own proposals. Then the finance minister announced another business summit to take place on Tuesday – …
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By Mohammed Salem KHAN YOUNIS (Reuters) – After more than a year of war, Abu Razzak Al-Qassas and his family live in a makeshift shelter within a cemetery in the southern Gaza Strip, dependent on food donations for survival. The Al-Qassas family, originally from Gaza City in the northern part of the coastal enclave, are …
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