By Fernando Kallas GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) – Spain have produced footballing masterclasses to clear two big hurdles impressively at the start of their Euro 2024 campaign, sending a statement to their fellow title challengers. After hammering Croatia 3-0, they subjected defending champions Italy to a 1-0 defeat on Thursday that would have been a thrashing …
By Margaryta Chornokondratenko and Tom Little HAMBURG, Germany (Reuters) – Visitors to Hamburg including fans with time on their hands between Euro 2024 games have been enjoying a special exhibition that recreates the tournament in minute and colourful detail. The city’s ever-popular “Miniatur Wunderland” (Miniature Wonderland) has gone into overdrive, meticulously reproducing the local Volksparkstadion …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Several Israeli air strikes in the central and northern Gaza Strip overnight and into Thursday killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens of others, according to medics, while tanks deepened their invasion into Rafah in the south, residents said. Israeli planes struck a house in Al-Nuseirat camp, killing two …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russians on Thursday reported some problems with processing payments at major banks after a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Russian banks, Russia’s Kommersant newspaper reported. At least one Russian bank was telling clients that it was having trouble sending messages containing codes to confirm payments, a Reuters reporter said. The Kommersant newspaper said …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Marine biologists have moved a pair of beluga whales from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv – the target of daily shelling by Russian forces – to the eastern Spanish city of Valencia, in what they described as a long and risky international rescue operation. The animals, 15-year-old male Plombir and 14-year-old female …
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(Reuters) – Slovakia’s parliament approved the government’s planned revamp and leadership change at public broadcaster RTVS on Thursday, overruling concerns the changes will bring the broadcaster under political control and harm media freedom. The changes come amid a wider push by Robert Fico’s leftist-nationalist cabinet to reshape Slovak institutions and policy, including among state prosecutors …
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(Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced on Thursday a set of measures to protect Ukraine’s energy system, including protection for plants coming under Russian fire and the development of alternative renewable energy sources. “Life in Ukraine must be preserved and that includes in particular energy security,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address. Russia pounded …
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By Julia Payne BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union countries agreed on a 14th package of sanctions against Russia over its war in Ukraine, diplomats said on Thursday, including a ban on re-exports of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) in EU waters. Belgium, which holds the rotating EU presidency until July 1, said on the X platform …
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By Elizabeth Pineau and Dominique Vidalon PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance would lower power bills, soften inheritance tax and link pensions to inflation if it wins a snap election, the prime minister said, seeking to counter the threat from the far right and a left-wing bloc. Macron’s ruling Together alliance is …
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland will send 20 soldiers to help secure the Olympic Games in Paris, the head of the Polish National Security Bureau told state news agency PAP, as organisers prepare for a major security challenge. The French capital has been on high alert since Islamist attacks in 2015 that killed 130 people and …
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