By Ricardo Moraes RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -By Tuesday night, the official death toll from police raids against Rio de Janeiro’s oldest gang had climbed to 64 bodies at the city’s police morgue, already by far the most lethal operation in Brazilian history. But as dawn broke on Wednesday, the true scale of the carnage …
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CHISINAU (Reuters) -Moldova’s parliament picked a new prime minister on Friday to lead the small nation’s efforts to join the European Union and break free of Russia’s political orbit. The appointment of Alexandru Munteanu, a 61-year-old economist, follows a parliamentary election in September in which President Maia Sandu’s ruling Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) …
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PARIS (Reuters) -Lawmakers in France’s lower house rejected on Friday multiple proposals for a wealth tax on ultra-rich as promoted by French economist Gabriel Zucman, who had called for a 2% tax on assets over 100 million euros. (Reporting by Leigh Thomas, Editing by Dominique Vidalon)
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Dutch centrist party D66 won the most votes in Wednesday’s general election, news agency ANP said on Friday, putting its 38-year-old leader Rob Jetten on course to become the youngest-ever prime minister in the Netherlands. With almost all votes counted, pro-EU liberal D66 can no longer be overtaken by the far-right Freedom Party …
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PRAGUE (Reuters) -Czech billionaire Andrej Babis’s populist ANO party and his right-wing allies plan to keep budget deficits within EU limits, cap the retirement age and ensure cheaper energy as part of a joint government agenda, media reported on Friday. ANO plans to sign a coalition agreement with the right-wing, eurosceptic Motorists and the far-right, …
By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The Israeli military’s chief legal officer resigned on Friday over a criminal inquiry into the leaking of a video that appeared to show soldiers abusing a Palestinian detainee arrested during the Gaza war. Advocate General Major-General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi said that she was stepping down because she had approved the video’s …
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By Max Hunder and Andrius Sytas KYIV/VILNIUS (Reuters) -Ukraine has handed over a captured Russian soldier accused of torture and illegal detention to Lithuania for trial, in what Kyiv said was the first case of its kind involving the justice system of a third country during Russia’s nearly four-year-old war. The soldier, described by Lithuania …
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By Elizabeth Pineau DREUX, France (Reuters) -The Count of Paris, whose great-grandmother once wore the sapphire tiara stolen from the Louvre Museum, has pleaded with the robbers to return the stolen jewels intact for the sake of France’s heritage – and for his family. “Give us back our jewels, there’s still time,” said Jean d’Orleans, …
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(Reuters) -A “chronic, structural underestimation of the risk of intrusions and theft” left the Louvre exposed for over 20 years to the kind of heist the museum experienced this month, French culture minister Rachida Dati said on Friday. Security gaps contributed to a brazen daylight heist on October 19, in which four hooded thieves made …
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By Krisztina Than BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Indamedia, a Hungarian media group which is 50% owned by pro-government businessman Miklos Vaszily, has bought a portfolio which includes Hungary’s main tabloid newspaper, Blikk. The deal, announced by the two companies in a statement on Friday, comes just months before a general election due in April, with Prime Minister …
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