BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany reintroduced temporary controls on its western and northern borders on Monday as part of efforts to combat irregular migration and cross-border crime, the interior ministry said. The restrictions are part of a series of measures Germany has taken to toughen its stance on irregular migration following a surge in arrivals, in …
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By Anastasiia Malenko and Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Ryan Routh, the reported suspect in an apparent assassination attempt on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Sunday, stayed in Kyiv in the summer of 2022 to encourage people to fight for Ukraine, he told a news outlet that year. CNN, Fox News and The New …
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PRAGUE/WARSAW (Reuters) – More rivers in central Europe spilled their banks on Monday in flooding that has killed at least 10 people from Poland to Romania and left many towns submerged or hit by gushing, debris-filled waters after days of heavy rainfalls. Border areas between the Czech Republic and Poland were hit hard over the …
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By Michel Rose and Andrew Gray PARIS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Thierry Breton of France stepped down as a member of the European Commission on Monday and said he would no longer be his country’s candidate for the next EU executive body, in an unexpected twist in the highly political EU power transition. Breton, one of the highest-profile …
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By Gram Slattery and David Ljunggren (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was safe on Sunday after the Secret Service foiled what the FBI called an apparent assassination attempt while he was golfing on his course in West Palm Beach, Florida. Secret Service agents spotted and fired on a gunman in bushes near the …
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By David W Cerny, Radovan Stoklasa and Marek Strzelecki JESENIK, Czech Republic/WARSAW (Reuters) -The death toll from flooding in central Europe rose to eight on Sunday as thousands of people were evacuated from their homes in the Czech Republic following days of torrential rain that caused rivers to burst their banks in several parts of …
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KYIV (Reuters) -A Russian-guided bomb struck a multi-storey apartment building on Sunday in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, triggering a fire and killing one person and injuring 42, officials said. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the latest attack underscored the need for Ukraine’s Western partners to provide weapons and air defence systems and permission to use weaponry …
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By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump on Sunday leveled an attack against Taylor Swift, declaring his “hate” for her just days after the pop mega-star endorsed his Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris. In an all-caps posting on his Truth Social media account, Trump wrote, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” Immediately following last …
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By Luiza Ilie and Radovan Stoklasa VISNOVA, Czech Republic (Reuters) -At least four people died and thousands of homes were damaged by flooding in eastern Romania on Saturday, officials said, as surging river levels put authorities on alert in much of central and eastern Europe following days of torrential rain. Tens of thousands of households …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian will attend the upcoming BRICS summit in Russia, state media cited Tehran’s ambassador in Moscow as saying on Sunday, amid tensions with the West over military cooperation between the two countries. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday that Russia had received ballistic missiles from Iran …
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