By Andrew Gray and Benoit Van Overstraeten BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union will prepare to expand its sanctions on Iran in response to Tehran’s attack on Israel, EU top diplomat Josep Borrell said on Tuesday after an emergency video conference of the bloc’s foreign ministers. Borrell cited U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in declaring that the …
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By Felix Light TBILISI (Reuters) -Riot police in Georgia began clearing demonstrators from around the ex-Soviet state’s parliament on Tuesday as lawmakers debated a bill on “foreign agents” that the opposition denounces as authoritarian. The bill would require organisations receiving more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as being agents of foreign …
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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Astronomers have discovered a black hole with a mass about 33 times greater than that of our sun, the biggest one known in the Milky Way aside from the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy. The newly identified black hole is located about 2,000 light-years …
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By James Mackenzie JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A third meeting of Israel’s war cabinet set for Tuesday to decide on a response to Iran’s first-ever direct attack was put off until Wednesday, as Western allies eyed swift new sanctions against Tehran to help dissuade Israel from a major escalation. Military chief of staff Herzi Halevi had …
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By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) -Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel who was stabbed during a church service live streamed from Sydney on Monday is a social media star with followers around the world, but the bearded clergyman is also a divisive preacher. Dressed in dark robes, clutching a large cross and sporting a bushy grey beard …
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By Corina Pons SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Spain (Reuters) – Soon after Maria Rosa Sanchez reported her neighbour for renting her building’s rooftop in Tenerife as a campsite on Airbnb, police officers carried out an early morning raid and local authorities opened an investigation. The closure of the campsite, which offered tents for 12 euros …
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By Daria Sito-Sucic VARES, Bosnia (Reuters) – After five years abroad, Anto Marcic has returned to his village near the town of Vares in Bosnia and Herzegovina and opened a transportation firm that is flattening a new mountain road connecting to neighboring settlements. He is one of many who have returned to the area in …
By Patricia Zengerle, Richard Cowan and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives will consider aid to Israel and Ukraine as separate legislation this week, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson said on Monday, more than two months after the Senate passed a bill combining the two. Leaving a meeting of House Republicans on …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday her pick for the EU’s new business envoy had decided not to take up the post, after critics linked the appointment to cronyism. The European Commission, the EU’s executive body, has reiterated that it followed all the rules in picking Markus Pieper, …
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By James Mackenzie JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel’s military chief said on Monday his country would respond to Iran’s weekend missile and drone attack amid calls for restraint by allies anxious to avoid an escalation of conflict in the Middle East. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu summoned his war cabinet for the second time in less than 24 …
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