MADRID (Reuters) -Some in solemn silence, others seething with anger, hundreds of relatives of the victims of deadly floods in Spain’s Valencia region flocked to a state funeral presided over by King Felipe on Wednesday, a year after the tragedy killed 237 people. Many arrived at the futuristic venue known as the City of Arts …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -A mass ultra-Orthodox Jewish rally against military conscription turned deadly in Jerusalem on Thursday, when a teenage boy fell to his death during the demonstration which had shut down the main entrance to the city. Packed crowds of mostly men clogged the roads around the Route 1 highway leading into Jerusalem. Israeli media …
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VILNIUS (Reuters) -Lithuania’s Vilnius airport temporarily closed on Thursday due to weather balloons flying in its vicinity, the airport said in a post on Facebook, the sixth such incident this month. Lithuania has said the balloons are sent by smugglers transporting contraband cigarettes, but it also blames Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of …
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By Lili Bayer and Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Online platforms subject to landmark EU tech rules could be required to detect and tackle hybrid threats in Europe under a proposal set to be announced by the European Commission next month and seen by Reuters. The EU uses the term hybrid threats to refer to coordinated …
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By Stephanie van den Berg, Bart H. Meijer and Marta Fiorin THE HAGUE (Reuters) -Dutch centrist leader Rob Jetten said he was “very confident” of being able to put together a government after his party’s strong showing in parliamentary elections that saw Geert Wilders’ anti-Islam Freedom Party lose ground. With most of the votes counted, …
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Horatiu Potra, an associate of former Romanian presidential candidate Calin Georgescu, will voluntarily return to Romania from Dubai to face trial on national security charges, his lawyer said on Thursday. The European Union and NATO state cancelled its presidential election last December due to suspected Russian interference in favour of Georgescu, a strong …
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VIENNA (Reuters) -The head of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, or CTBTO, said on Thursday that any explosive nuclear weapon test would be harmful for global non-proliferation efforts and peace and security. In a statement issued after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons, Robert Floyd, CTBTO Executive …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine is intensifying efforts to defend the strategic hub of Pokrovsk, aiming to secure supply and evacuation routes and root out Russian infantry infiltrating the city, the top army commander said on Thursday. Russia’s army has been inching towards Pokrovsk in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region for more than a year. Taking Pokrovsk could enable …
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By Jana Choukeir, Emily Rose and Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel said on Wednesday it remains committed to the U.S.-backed ceasefire in Gaza, despite its retaliation for the death of an Israeli soldier with day-long bombardment that Gaza health authorities said killed 104 people. Even as the military affirmed it still intended to uphold the …
ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece plans to spend around 2.5 billion euros ($2.92 billion) to secure water supplies for its population over the next 30 years as it faces drought and increased demands on scare resources, its environment minister said on Thursday. Much of Greece, which sits on Europe’s warmest southern tip and uses about 10 billion cubic …
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