HAMBURG (Reuters) – Parts of the river Rhine in south Germany remained closed to cargo shipping on Tuesday after heavy rain in south Germany increased water levels, navigation authorities said. Rhine river shipping has stopped around Maxau and Mannheim in south Germany, the German inland waterways navigation agency said. The river had been closed to …
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By Riham Alkousaa, Layli Foroudi and David Latona BERLIN/PARIS/MADRID (Reuters) – Nadir Aslam, a German of Moroccan-Pakistani heritage, had been planning to vote Green in this week’s elections to the European Parliament. Instead, he will throw his support behind Mera25, a start-up leftist party with a clear pro-Palestinian stance. Aslam, 33, told Reuters it was …
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(Reuters) -Tuesday marks the 35th anniversary of China’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in and around central Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, when Chinese troops opened fire on their own people. The event remains a taboo topic of discussion in mainland China and will not be officially commemorated by the ruling Communist Party or government. Here are …
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By Catarina Demony and Patricia Vicente Rua LISBON (Reuters) -Portugal announced on Monday a new plan that will toughen some immigration rules, following in the footsteps of other EU countries and days before Europeans head to the polls in an election set to tilt the bloc’s politics to the right. “We need people in Portugal …
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ROME (Reuters) -Italy will send a second SAMP/T air defence system to Ukraine, its foreign minister said in a radio interview on Monday, responding to Kyiv’s pleas for greater help to fend off Russian missile attacks. The system, also known as MAMBA, is a Franco-Italian battery that can track dozens of targets and intercept 10 …
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By Kylie Madry and Valentine Hilaire MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and protege of Mexico’s popular outgoing president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, won a landslide to become the country’s first female leader, though the scale of her victory sparked jitters in the markets. Former Mexico City mayor Sheinbaum, 61, won the highest …
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JERUSALEM/BUCHAREST (Reuters) – A foreign citizen was detained in Romania’s capital Bucharest on Monday after throwing a Molotov cocktail outside the Israeli embassy, causing no damage or casualties, police said. The Romanian Intelligence Service said its anti-terrorism officers caught the 34-year-old suspect, who allegedly also threatened he will set himself on fire, and handed him …
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By Lucy Papachristou LONDON (Reuters) – А group of Russian women staged a small but rare protest outside the Defence Ministry in Moscow on Monday to demand the return of mobilised soldiers from the front in Ukraine. For months, different groups of Russian women have organised sporadic demonstrations to exert pressure on authorities to return …
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By Horaci Garcia and Vincent West LA JUNQUERA/IRUN, Spain (Reuters) – Spanish and French farmers blocked roads along the border through the Pyrenees mountains on Monday ahead of European Parliament elections to protest against what they say is unfair competition from outside the European Union. Earlier this year, farmers obstructed roads for weeks in countries …
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By James Pearson LONDON (Reuters) – Russia has stepped up an online disinformation campaign which takes aim at France and the upcoming Paris Olympics, Microsoft said in a blog post published on Sunday. The campaign, which includes falsified news websites and a feature-length documentary film, is specifically designed to denigrate the reputation of the International …
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