By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union countries approved a flagship policy to restore damaged nature on Monday, after months of delay, making it the first green law to pass since European Parliament elections this month. The nature restoration law is among the EU’s biggest environmental policies, requiring member states to introduce measures restoring …
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Denmark is considering ways to limit a so-called shadow fleet of tankers from carrying Russian oil through the Baltic Sea, the Nordic country’s foreign minister said on Monday, in a move that could heighten tensions with Moscow. Russia sends about a third of its seaborne oil exports, or 1.5% of global supply, through …
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(Reuters) -U.S. soldier Gordon Black pleaded not guilty in a Russian court on Monday to charges of threatening to kill his girlfriend but admitted he was “partially” guilty of stealing from her, Russian state media said. Black, arrested last month in the far eastern city of Vladivostok, is one of at least a dozen Americans …
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By Stelios Misinas and Karolina Tagaris KORYDALLOS PRISON, Greece (Reuters) – On a stifling summer evening, the actors took to the stage: a grassy courtyard enclosed by towering prison walls, topped with barbed wire and lit by a floodlight. The performers were inmates at Greece’s maximum-security jail, and so was the audience. The play – …
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VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria’s environment minister, Leonore Gewessler of the Greens, defied her conservative coalition partners on Sunday by pledging to cast Austria’s vote in favour of adopting a European nature restoration law, potentially tipping the balance in Brussels. European Union countries’ environment ministers will discuss the bloc’s flagship policy to restore damaged nature at …
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By Martin Petty and Martyn Herman DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) – Kylian Mbappe found himself at the centre of his country’s political turmoil on the eve of France’s opening game at Euro 2024 on Sunday, describing the tumultuous events back home as a pivotal moment for French history. Usual questions about the challenge Austria might pose …
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By Emma-Victoria Farr FRANKFURT (Reuters) -German police shot at a man who threatened officers with a sledgehammer and an incendiary device on the sidelines of a Euro 2024 soccer fan parade in central Hamburg on Sunday, police said. The attacker was injured in the leg and was receiving medical care but his condition is not …
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By James Mackenzie JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized plans announced by the military on Sunday to hold daily tactical pauses in fighting along one of the main roads into Gaza to facilitate aid delivery into the Palestinian enclave. The military had announced the daily pauses from 0500 GMT until 1600 GMT in …
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By Dave Graham and Sabine Siebold BUERGENSTOCK, Switzerland (Reuters) -Western powers and their allies at a summit in Switzerland denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Sunday, but they failed to persuade major non-aligned states to join their final statement, and no country came forward to host a sequel. Over 90 countries attended the two-day talks …
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(Removes extraneous ‘of’ from second paragraph.) CAIRO (Reuters) -Fourteen Jordanians have been reported dead during the annual Muslim haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, some of them due to heat stroke, while 17 others were reported missing, the Jordanian foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday. At least six of the fatalities were heat related, …
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