(Reuters) -Two French warplanes and a refuelling aircraft were being tracked on Thursday by two Russian fighter jets in international air space over the Black Sea, the second such interaction this week, the French army said on Thursday. A Russian jet had already escorted two French warplanes on Wednesday, which Moscow had said aimed to …
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(Reuters) – New Zealand on Thursday said it will ban young people from buying cigarettes for life, one of the toughest approaches in the world to curbing smoking deaths as part of a wider plan that focuses on the disproportionate impact on its indigenous Maori population. New Zealand is already one of 17 countries where …
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Four current and former employees at Denmark’s two intelligence services have been arrested for leaking “highly classified” information, the Danish Security and Intelligence Service said on Thursday. “The arrests are the results of a lengthy investigation into leaks from the intelligence services,” it said, adding that the investigation would continue while the …
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ANKARA (Reuters) – Moscow will host an inaugural meeting of a six-way South Caucasus peace platform on Friday, an idea proposed by Turkey and Azerbaijan following last year’s Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. After six weeks of fighting last year, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a Russia-brokered ceasefire to end conflict over …
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By Helen Coster (Reuters) – The number of journalists worldwide who are behind bars reached a global high in 2021, according to a new report from the nonprofit Committee to Protect Journalists, which says that 293 reporters were imprisoned as of Dec. 1 this year. At least 24 journalists were killed because of their coverage, …
By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – One month after her son Eran had recovered from a mild case of COVID-19, Sara Bittan rushed the three-year-old to the emergency room. He had high fever, a rash, his eyes and lower body were swollen and red, his stomach was hurting and he was crying in pain. Eventually …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – COVID-19 infections have been spreading in pubs and clubs in Australia’s biggest city, including three new cases of the Omicron variant found among people who went on a harbour party cruise, sending officials rushing to trace contacts. Authorities have been easing restrictions in Sydney since early October when the city emerged from …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on dozens of people and entities in Europe and the Western Hemisphere including an organized crime group based in northern Kosovo and El Salvador officials who Washington accuses of negotiating with the MS-13 gang. The U.S. Treasury Department said Wednesday’s action, the latest in a series …
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By Jeff Mason and Vladimir Soldatkin WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that putting American troops on the ground in Ukraine to deter a potential Russian invasion was “not on the table,” as tension between Moscow and Washington eased slightly after a virtual summit this week. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow …
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By Essi Lehto HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin apologised to the public on Wednesday after a photo surfaced of her in a nightclub following the foreign minister testing positive for COVID-19. “I did wrong. I should have considered the situation more carefully,” Marin said in a television interview by public broadcaster Yle …
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