PARIS (Reuters) – Europe has no need for new structures related to European Union defence strategy, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday, a day after French President Emmanuel Macron called for a rethink of EU defence. Macron said on Thursday the EU needed to define a new defence strategy that would strengthen its ability …
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By Jacob Garcia TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (Reuters) – Fifty-four mostly Central Americans were killed on Thursday when the truck they were in flipped over in southern Mexico, in one of the worst accidents involving migrants who risk their lives to reach the United States. The trailer broke open, spilling out people, when the truck crashed …
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary has the right to apply its own measures in areas where the European Union has yet to take adequate steps for common implementation of EU rules, the Hungarian Constitutional Court ruled on Friday. The Hungarian court has been considering a challenge by Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government to an EU court …
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungary’s Constitutional Court is expected to rule on a government motion challenging the supremacy of European Union law on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told public radio. The court has been considering a challenge by Orban’s justice minister, Judit Varga, to an EU court finding that Budapest had broken EU laws designed to …
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) – The fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to have peaked in Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told public radio on Friday. He added that Hungary would start inoculating 5-11-year-old children against COVID-19 next Wednesday. (Reporting by Gergely Szakacs; Editing by Christopher Cushing)
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – New Caledonia is pushing ahead with a referendum on independence from France this weekend, despite concerns that a boycott by pro-independence parties who oppose holding the poll amid the coronavirus pandemic risks an outbreak of violence. France’s decision to hold the last of a series of three votes on …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – New Caledonia will hold a referendum on independence from France this weekend, despite concerns that a boycott by pro-independence parties and holding the poll amid the coronavirus pandemic risk an outbreak of violence. Here are some key facts: NEW CALEDONIA New Caledonia is located 1,500 kilometres (930 miles) east of Australia. Its …
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By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Surging interest in vaping among young New Zealanders may undermine a government crackdown on the tobacco industry and its aim to get people to kick the habit, healthcare and anti-tobacco experts said on Friday. New Zealand plans to ban young people from ever buying cigarettes in their lifetime in …
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(Reuters) -New Zealand plans to ban young people from ever buying cigarettes in their lifetime in one of the world’s toughest crackdowns on the tobacco industry, arguing that other efforts to extinguish smoking were taking too long. People aged 14 and under in 2027 will never be allowed to purchase cigarettes https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/how-will-new-zealands-lifetime-ban-cigarette-sales-work-2021-12-09 in the Pacific …
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By Tom Balmforth and Andrey Ostroukh MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia kept up a barrage of hostile rhetoric towards Ukraine on Thursday and compared the crisis there to the most dangerous moment of the Cold War as it waited for U.S. President Joe Biden to invite it to possible talks with NATO countries. The Russian Foreign Ministry …
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