(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the late president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, as a reliable partner always good to his word and asked the chairman of parliament on Tuesday to convey his sympathy at memorial events. Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash near the Azerbaijan border over the weekend along with his …
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By James Mackenzie JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Israeli authorities confiscated camera equipment belonging to the Associated Press on Tuesday, before reversing course in the face of widespread condemnation from media groups and criticism even from its closest ally, the United States. Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi said in a statement he had ordered officials to cancel …
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By Foo Yun Chee and Tassilo Hummel BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Europe’s landmark rules on artificial intelligence will enter into force next month after EU countries endorsed on Tuesday a political deal reached in December, setting a potential global benchmark for a technology used in business and everyday life. The European Union’s AI Act is more comprehensive …
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PARIS (Reuters) – France’s far-right Rassemblement National, leading the race for EU elections in France, will no longer sit with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the European Parliament after the AfD’s top candidate said members of the Nazi SS force were “not all criminals”. The far-right AfD, running second in German opinion polls before …
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By Miranda Murray CANNES, France (Reuters) – Donald Trump would likely be surprised by “The Apprentice,” director Ali Abbasi said on Tuesday of his biopic about Trump’s early years as a real estate mogul, adding he was open to meeting with the former U.S. president to discuss the film. “The Apprentice,” which shares the name …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – A Swiss parliamentary committee on Tuesday rejected a ruling by a top European court that said Switzerland had violated the human rights of its citizens by not doing enough to prevent climate change. In April, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg found in favor of a group of elderly Swiss …
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LONDON (Reuters) -European Union countries formally adopted a plan on Tuesday to use windfall profits from Russian central bank assets frozen in the EU for Ukraine’s defence. It is the first in what could be a series of moves by the G7 group of large Western nations to utilise the near $300 billion worth of …
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By Renee Maltezou KALAMATA, Greece (Reuters) – The trial of nine Egyptian men accused of causing a shipwreck that killed hundreds of migrants off Greece last year began amid protests on Tuesday in the city of Kalamata. Up to 700 migrants from Pakistan, Syria and Egypt boarded a fishing trawler in Libya that was bound …
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By Anne Kauranen and Essi Lehto HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finland’s government proposed emergency legislation on Tuesday to block asylum seekers entering across its vast and often snow-bound border with Russia which it believes Moscow is promoting due to political antagonism since the Ukraine war. Finland shut the 1,340 km (830 mile) frontier last year after increased …
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By Stephanie van den Berg, Anthony Deutsch and Charlotte Van Campenhout THE HAGUE (Reuters) -The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor said on Monday he had requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defence chief and three Hamas leaders over alleged war crimes. ICC prosecutor Karim Khan said in a statement issued after more …
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