By Giselda Vagnoni NAPLES (Reuters) -With the art world on high alert for any sign of the missing Louvre jewels, one Italian collection says its method of creating a photographic fingerprint of its own priceless gems and artefacts could make them harder to break apart and sell on. A team of gemology experts has spent …
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) -An 18-year-old Russian street musician jailed for nearly two weeks earlier this month for playing a banned anti-Kremlin song was found guilty on Tuesday of “discrediting” the Russian army and fined 30,000 roubles ($369). Diana Loginova, a music student who performs under the name Naoko with her band Stoptime, was arrested …
GENEVA (Reuters) -Britain’s trade minister said on Tuesday that he expected “soon” to conclude a trade deal with the Gulf countries ahead of a meeting this week. “There’s just a few tiny things that are significant, but tiny things, that we need to resolve,” Chris Bryant told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday. He said that …
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday that Lithuania’s closure of the border was a “crazy scam” and accused the West of fighting a hybrid war against Belarus and Russia that was ushering in a new era of barbed wire division. Since President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, European …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British actress Prunella Scales, best known for playing the formidable Sybil Fawlty in comedy show “Fawlty Towers”, has died age 93, her sons said in a statement on Tuesday. Sybil was the wife of John Cleese’s Basil Fawlty, in the show’s two series made in 1975 and 1979. Set in a dysfunctional hotel …
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NEAR JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli security forces killed three Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, a police spokesperson said. Palestinian militant group Hamas said two of the men were its members and that all three had died in a clash with Israeli forces. The Israeli forces shot at the militants who …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russian troops were constantly hearing foreign languages spoken by those fighting for Ukraine on the front line, and promised that such fighters would be “destroyed”. Russia has long said that NATO military personnel have been present in Ukraine and that its eavesdropping services have picked up English …
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(Reuters) -Russia has flown a second prototype of its MC-21 medium-haul passenger jet built with domestic components, the industry ministry said on Tuesday, as sanctions on foreign components stall production and high interest rates crimp investment. Battling these obstacles, the Russian aircraft industry proved able to deliver by August just one of 15 jets planned …
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By Canan Sevgili, Arda Dipova and Jakob Van Calster (Reuters) -The Netherlands will hold a general election on October 29 after the previous government collapsed. Geert Wilders’ far-right PVV leads polls though some support has shifted to Christian Democrats. Here is what you need to know about the election: WHAT’S AT STAKE? Opinion polls indicate …
(Reuters) -Ukraine targeted Moscow with drone attacks for the second night in row, the Russian defence ministry and Moscow’s mayor said on Tuesday. The Russian defence ministry said in a statement its air defence units destroyed 17 Ukrainian drones overnight, including one flying towards Moscow and 13 over the Kaluga region which borders the Moscow …
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