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ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece has ordered some businesses not to let their employees perform heavy outdoor duties during afternoon hours this week as the country sizzles in yet another heat wave. Builders, food delivery riders, couriers and shipwrights are among those having to pause work from midday till 5 pm from Tuesday till Friday as …

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By Kate Abnett STRASBOURG (Reuters) -Roberta Metsola, a Maltese lawmaker from the centre-right European People’s Party, easily won a second term on Tuesday as president of the European Parliament and she appealed for a more inclusive politics to help combat polarisation. Metsola, who in 2022 became the first woman in 20 years to head the …

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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the United States on Tuesday of demanding “unquestioning obedience” from allies and threatening multilateralism, prompting the U.S. to pan his remarks in the United Nations Security Council as “whining”. Lavrov chaired a meeting of the Council – convened by Russia as president …

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By Tom Sims and Christian Kraemer FRANKFURT (Reuters) -A top German prosecutor who led a years-long effort to crack down on a giant tax fraud vowed on Tuesday in her new role as an activist to combat the influence of lobbyists and seek the return of 28 billion euros ($31 billion) in taxes. The effort …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -A new hearing in the espionage trial of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been brought forward to July 18 from Aug. 13, the Russian court hearing his case said on Tuesday. Gershkovich, a 32-year-old American journalist who denies any wrongdoing, went on trial behind closed doors last month in the Russian …

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By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) – France’s left-wing parties fought bitterly on Tuesday over who to put forward as prime minister, leading Communist party leader Fabien Roussel to warn they were risking a “shipwreck” despite their election success. President Emmanuel Macron was likely to accept the resignation of his current government, led by centrist Gabriel …

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BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s political director congratulated J.D. Vance on being nominated as the running mate of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, saying a “Trump-Vance administration sounds just right”. Trump selected J.D. Vance, a U.S. senator from Ohio and a staunch conservative as his running mate on Monday, which could help …

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By Miranda Murray BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s interior ministry banned the right-wing Compact magazine on Tuesday, accusing it of being a “mouthpiece of the right-wing extremist scene” and inciting hatred to Jews and foreigners. Stepping up the government’s fight against what it says is a surge in far-right extremism in Germany, the ministry said Compact had …

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