By Rachel More and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) -An aide to a member of the European Parliament for the far-right Alternative for Germany has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of “especially severe” espionage for China, the latest in a spate of such arrests across Europe. Prosecutors named him as Jian G. in a statement …
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By Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira SANTAREM, Portugal (Reuters) – Veteran military officer Captain Joaquim Correia Bernardo, 84, remembers the revolution that toppled Portugal’s fascist dictatorship five decades ago as if it were yesterday. He was in his thirties when he helped organise the April 25, 1974 military coup that returned Portugal to democracy after …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Drones sent by Ukraine’s SBU security service struck two Rosneft-owned oil depots in Russia’s Smolensk region in an overnight attack on Wednesday, a Ukrainian intelligence source said. The source said the depots contained 26,000 cubic metres of fuel and that the attack caused major fires and evacuation of personnel. “The SBU continues …
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By Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A sweeping foreign aid package easily passed the U.S. Congress late on Tuesday after months of delay, clearing the way for billions of dollars in fresh Ukraine funding amid advances from Russia’s invasion force and Kyiv’s shortages of military supplies. The Senate approved by 79 to 18 …
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ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s Senate gave final approval on Tuesday to a contested government plan to allow groups who “support motherhood” into abortion clinics to try to deter women terminating pregnancies. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party attached the proposal in an amendment to a bill on Rome’s post-COVID-19 recovery plan, which includes …
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By Yves Herman and Hannah Ellison WIMEREUX, France/DOVER, England (Reuters) -Five migrants, including a child, died in an attempt to cross the English Channel from France to Britain in an overcrowded small boat on Tuesday, hours after Britain passed a bill to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda in a move to deter the dangerous journeys. …
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By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Israel has taken significant steps in recent weeks on allowing aid into Gaza, the U.S. special envoy for humanitarian issues said on Tuesday, but considerable work remained to be done as the risk of famine in the enclave is very high. David Satterfield declined to say whether Washington was satisfied …
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(Reuters) – Emergency services in Russian-held parts of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region said a Ukrainian drone strike on Tuesday killed four people in a car north of the town of Melitopol. The officials, quoted by Russia’s RIA news agency, said the attack occurred in the village of Myrne. The Russia-installed governor of occupied parts of the …
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By Tom Balmforth and Yuliia Dysa KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine on Tuesday suspended consular services for military-age male citizens until May 18, criticising Ukrainians abroad who it said expected to receive help from the state without helping it battle for survival in the war against Russia. Hundreds of thousands of military-age Ukrainian men are living abroad …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi (Reuters) – Israeli strikes intensified across Gaza on Tuesday in some of the heaviest shelling in weeks, residents said, and the army ordered fresh evacuations in the north of the enclave, warning civilians they were in a “dangerous combat zone”. Strikes by air and shelling from tanks on the ground were also …
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