By Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS (Reuters) -Senators approved changes to France’s rape law on Wednesday to include consent, bringing the legislation more into line with more than a dozen other European countries in a move that was given new impetus by the Gisele Pelicot mass rape trial. French criminal law has until now defined rape as …
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By Luiza Ilie BUCHAREST (Reuters) -The United States plans to cut the number of troops present on Europe’s eastern flank, including soldiers who were to be stationed at Romania’s Mihail Kogalniceanu air base, Romania’s defence ministry said on Wednesday. The ministry said the decision was expected given changes in Washington’s priorities, and that roughly 1,000 …
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(Reuters) -The Israeli military said on Wednesday it conducted a “targeted” strike in the area of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip targeting an infrastructure site where weapons were stored. The military said earlier on Wednesday that it had resumed enforcing the Gaza ceasefire agreement after a series of strikes across the enclave that …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The death toll following an explosion last week at a military plant near the Russian Urals city of Chelyabinsk has nearly doubled to 23 people, local authorities said on Wednesday. An explosion last Thursday at an industrial facility in the city of Kopeisk, just to the east of the regional capital Chelyabinsk, killed …
By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) -Border crossings between Lithuania and Belarus will remain closed for most travellers until the end of November in response to recent airspace disruptions by smugglers’ balloons, the Baltic republic’s government said on Wednesday. “We do not rule out extending this for as long as necessary,” Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene told …
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar said on Wednesday that he would file a criminal complaint against Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief political aide for publishing what Magyar said was a deepfake video of him generated by artificial intelligence. Magyar’s centre-right Tisza party leads most opinion polls ahead of elections due in April 2026. …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain said on Wednesday it was deploying 2.5 million pounds ($3.36 million) in emergency humanitarian funding to assist the Caribbean region’s recovery from Hurricane Melissa, with targeted support for Jamaica. The aid package includes the rapid delivery of shelter kits, water filters, and blankets to help prevent injury and disease outbreaks, the government …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Ukraine targeted Russian energy infrastructure with drones, disrupting air traffic across the country and sending several drones towards Moscow for the third straight night, Russian authorities said on Wednesday. Ukraine’s General Staff said on the Telegram messaging app that its forces had struck Russia’s Mariysky refinery in the Mari El region, another in …
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By Alessandro Parodi BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Belgium has opened an investigation after two drone sightings over a military base in the country’s south-east, Defence Minister Theo Francken said on Wednesday, the second case in the country in under a month. Francken said in two posts on the X social media that guards at barracks in the …
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(Reuters) -Hamas denied responsibility on Tuesday for an attack on Israeli forces in the southern Gaza city of Rafah that prompted Israel to launch attacks in Gaza. The militant Palestinian group also said in a statement that it remained committed to the U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal in Gaza. Earlier on Tuesday, Israeli media had reported an …
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