(Reuters) – Around 373 million citizens across the 27 member states of the European Union are eligible to vote on June 6-9 in elections to the European Parliament. Here is all you need to know about the vote: WHAT IS THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT? The European Parliament (EP) is the only directly elected body of the …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Monday the United States could face “fatal consequences” if it ignored Moscow’s warnings not to let Ukraine use weapons provided by Washington to strike targets inside Russia. Ryabkov was commenting on President Joe Biden’s decision last week to approve the use of U.S.-supplied weapons …
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By Fatos Bytyci and Florion Goga TIRANA (Reuters) – In many ways Alba Ahmetaj and Edlira Mara lead an ordinary life. They brush their twin daughters’ hair before school and play fight with them in their flat on weekend mornings. They have matching shoulder tattoos that mark their 14 years together. But in their fight …
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TBILISI (Reuters) – Georgia’s parliamentary speaker signed into law on Monday a bill on “foreign agents” that has caused a political crisis in the South Caucasus country and drawn sharp criticism from its Western allies. The dispute around the law is a test of whether Georgia, for three decades among the more pro-Western of the …
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By Kylie Madry and Valentine Hilaire MEXICO CITY -Claudia Sheinbaum won a landslide victory to become Mexico’s first female president, inheriting the project of her mentor and outgoing leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador whose popularity among the poor helped drive her triumph. Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, won the presidency …
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By Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS (Reuters) – Last year, Sihame Denguir enrolled her teenage son and daughter in France’s largest Muslim private school, in the northern city of Lille some 200 kilometres (125 miles) from their middle-class suburban Parisian home. The move meant financial sacrifices. Denguir, 41, now pays fees at the partially state-subsidised Averroes school …
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PARIS (Reuters) – France won’t change its fiscal policy, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said as his government looked set to face two new no-confidence motions in parliament on Monday after one of the main credit agencies cut its rating of the country’s debt. “We won’t raise taxes, we already have too much taxes in France,” …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian broker organising an asset swap scheme that could free up frozen funds for Russian and foreign investors said it would start accepting bids from non-resident investors for the purchase of blocked foreign securities from Monday. Over 1 million offers were submitted by Russian retail investors during the transaction’s first stage, …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s anti-corruption prosecutor has requested the opening of a trial against BBVA and former chairman Francisco Gonzalez for alleged bribery and disclosure of company secrets, as part of a probe into alleged corporate spying. In a court document reviewed by Reuters, prosecutor Alejandro Cabaleiro Armesto asked the High Court’s investigating judge Manuel …
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BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbia’s ruling party defeated the opposition on Sunday in a vote for Belgrade city council and partial local elections across the country, marked by scuffles between opposition supporters and those of the populist President Aleksandar Vucic. According to an unofficial vote count by the pollster CESID, the alliance led by Serbian Progressive …
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