THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Dutch former queen Beatrix, 83, has tested positive for COVID-19, the royal information service RVD said in a statement Saturday. Princess Beatrix, as she has been known since her abdication in 2013, got tested after coming down with “mild cold symptoms”, the statement said. “The princess is at home in isolation …
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By John Irish DOHA (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron held face-to-face talks in Saudi Arabia on Saturday with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, becoming the first major Western leader to visit the kingdom since journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s 2018 murder. Macron considers Saudi Arabia vital to help forge a region-wide peace deal with Iran, as well …
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By Philip Pullella and Karolina Tagaris ATHENS (Reuters) -An elderly Greek Orthodox priest shouted “Pope, you are a heretic” as Pope Francis was entering the Orthodox Archbishopric in Athens on Saturday and was taken away by police, a reminder of the lingering distrust between the two divided churches. Video showed the man, who was dressed …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Belarus on Saturday accused a Ukrainian military helicopter of flouting its border during manoeuvres and flying one kilometre (0.62 miles) into Belarusian territory. The state border service issued a statement and a video of what it said was the Ukrainian helicopter flying across a snowy, wooded area at a checkpoint. A spokesman …
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VIENNA (Reuters) -More than 40,000 people marched through Vienna on Saturday to protest against a lockdown and plans to make vaccinations compulsory to curb the coronavirus pandemic. Faced with a surge in infections, the government last month made Austria the first country in Western Europe to reimpose a lockdown and said it would make vaccinations …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli outside Jerusalem’s walled Old City on Saturday before he was shot and killed by security forces at the scene, police said. A video released by Israeli police appears to show a man crossing a street and then turning around and several times stabbing or attempting to stab an …
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MILAN (Reuters) – Italy reported 75 coronavirus-related deaths on Saturday against 74 the day before, the health ministry said, while the daily tally of new infections fell to 16,632 from 17,030. Italy has registered 134,152 deaths linked to COVID-19 since February last year, the second-highest toll in Europe after Britain and the ninth-highest in the …
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VIENNA (Reuters) – Immigration hardliner Karl Nehammer https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/austrias-next-chancellor-ex-soldier-hardliner-survivor-2021-12-03 will be sworn in as Austrian chancellor on Monday, the presidency said, after being thrust into leadership by tumult among his conservative People’s Party following the resignation of fallen star Sebastian Kurz. Nehammer https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/austrias-next-chancellor-ex-soldier-hardliner-survivor-2021-12-03, 49, succeeded Kurz as party chief on Friday and will lead the coalition …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – More than 400 migrants who had travelled to Belarus seeking to cross the border into the EU flew home on Saturday on an Iraqi Airways plane bound for the city of Erbil in northern Iraq, Minsk’s airport said. The EU imposed sanctions https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/us-restricts-dealings-belarusian-sovereign-debt-increases-sanctions-2021-12-02 on Belarus on Thursday after accusing it of flying …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – German police found two adults and three children shot or stabbed to death in a family home in a town south of Berlin, they said on Saturday. They were called to the house in a suburb of the town of Koenigs Wusterhausen after being alerted by witnesses who had seen lifeless bodies …
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