By Alvise Armellini and Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) -A Romanian worker trapped for hours under the rubble of a partially collapsed medieval tower near the Colosseum in central Rome has died, Italian and Romanian authorities said on Tuesday. Parts of the 29-metre (95 ft) Torre dei Conti crashed to the ground at around 1030 GMT …
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MILAN (Reuters) -A Ukrainian man suspected of coordinating the 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines has begun a hunger strike, demanding respect for his fundamental rights in prison, his lawyer said on Tuesday. An Italian appeals court in Bologna last month ordered that the suspect, identified only as Serhii K. under German privacy …
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ATHENS (Reuters) -A 20-year-old man was stabbed to death and two were injured on the Greek island of Evia on Tuesday, police said, in two separate incidents which police officials said were possibly linked to soccer violence. Five people had been arrested, including the two injured men who were found in different areas, police spokeswoman …
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NICOSIA (Reuters) -Cyprus wants to create a regional organisation to promote security in the Middle East, its president said on Tuesday, saying it could be a platform to anchor stability in one of the world’s most volatile neighbourhoods. Discussing the idea publicly for the first time, President Nikos Christodoulides said Nicosia was working on “maturing …
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PRAGUE (Reuters) -Czech election winner ANO and its proposed coalition partners have two scenarios prepared for taking control of majority state-owned utility CEZ, newspaper Hospodarske Noviny quoted a senior ANO official as saying on Tuesday. ANO campaigned for the October election on promises that included getting full control over CEZ, in which the state already …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine, whose power system has come under continued drone and missile attacks by Russia, boosted its electricity imports to a this-year high of 360 megawatt hours in October, the Ukrainian ExPro consultancy said late on Monday. Ukrainian power imports stood at 140 Mwh in September and 264 MWh in August. Ukrainian officials say …
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(Reuters) -A Ukrainian drone attack damaged the Sterlitamak petrochemical plant deep inside Russia, causing a partial collapse of a water-treatment facility but no injuries, regional authorities said on Tuesday. The plant in the Bashkortostan region, some 1,500 km (932 miles) from the Ukrainian border in the Urals Mountains, was operating without interruption, the head of …
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SARONIC GULF, Greece (Reuters) -Overtourism and heavy maritime traffic across the Mediterranean are contributing to a rise in pollution in Greece’s azure waters, say Greek scientists who have deployed thousands of mussels on the seafloor to help detect microplastics. Mussels, filter-feeding organisms that absorb a range of contaminants into their tissue, including invisible microplastics, have …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -Chancellor Friedrich Merz has invited Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa to Germany to discuss deporting Syrian citizens with criminal records in Germany, the German leader said on Monday. “We will, of course, continue to deport criminals to Syria. That is the plan. We will now implement this in a very concrete manner,” Merz told …
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By Lili Bayer BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Ukraine is showing “remarkable commitment” to joining the EU, but must reverse recent negative trends in the fight against corruption and accelerate rule of law reforms, the European Commission said in a draft text seen by Reuters on Monday. Ukraine applied to join the EU days after Russia launched its …
