By Tom Balmforth and Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) -President Maia Sandu said on Monday Moldovans had won a “first battle in a difficult fight” for their future, a day after a slim majority of 50.46% backed EU accession in a referendum that was clouded by allegations of Russia-backed meddling. The knife-edge finish was a shock …
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By Borja Suarez GRAN CANARIA, Spain (Reuters) – Thousands of people protested in holiday resorts in Spain’s Canary Islands on Sunday against over tourism which they say prices local people out of the housing market. Under the slogan Canary Islands has a limit, residents demonstrated simultaneously in Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Palma, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and …
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By Janis Laizans and Michal Yaakov Itzhaki NEAR BE’ERI, Israel (Reuters) – Jewish settlers, including ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet, gathered on the border of Gaza on Monday, where they called for settlements Israel evacuated two decades ago to be re-established in the war-torn Palestinian enclave. Israel withdrew its military and settlers from …
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – More than 40 climate scientists are urging Nordic ministers to prevent global warming from causing a major change in an Atlantic Ocean current, which could trigger abrupt shifts in weather patterns and damage ecosystems. A collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a system of ocean currents that transports warm water into …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland said on Monday it had been a mistake to exclude Polish and Ukrainian leaders from last week’s meeting of U.S., German, British and French leaders in Berlin that focused on how to support Kyiv in its war with Russia. U.S. President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, British Prime Minister Keir …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a news conference following the BRICS summit Russia is hosting in Kazan on Thursday, Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said on Monday. Delegations from 36 countries – 22 of them represented by heads of state – and six international organisations will be present in Kazan, …
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CHISINAU (Reuters) – Moldovan President Maia Sandu has said that Sunday’s presidential election and referendum on charting a course towards European Union membership were marred by “unprecedented” outside interference. Moldovan officials say that Ilan Shor, a 37-year-old fugitive oligarch from the poor southeast European nation, has played a leading role in Russian-backed interference aimed at …
ROME (Reuters) – Births in Italy are heading for a new record low in 2024, national statistical bureau ISTAT said on Monday, marking a 16th consecutive annual decline and the lowest number since Italian unification in 1861. Italy’s ever-falling birth rate is considered a national emergency, but despite successive governments pledging to make it a …
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GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli authorities are still preventing humanitarian missions from reaching areas of northern Gaza with critical supplies including medicine and food for people under siege, the head of the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA said on Monday. Hospitals have been hit and are without power while injured people are left without care, Philippe …
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(Reuters) – The leaders of Slovakia, Hungary and Serbia will meet on Tuesday to discuss protecting the European Union’s borders against illegal migration, including through new solutions, the Slovak government office said on Monday. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who have long taken hard lines against migration, will meet …
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