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Olympics-No air conditioning, no problem at Paris 2024 athletes village

28 Feb 2024 28 Feb 2024

PARIS (Reuters) – Paris 2024 Olympics organisers are confident they can do without air conditioning at the athletes village, which will be delivered slightly ahead of schedule when it is officially unveiled by President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday. Temperatures are expected to soar again in the European summer, but there will be no air conditioning …

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A year after Greece’s worst train disaster, railway safety fears persist

28 Feb 2024 28 Feb 2024

By Renee Maltezou and Yannis Souliotis ATHENS (Reuters) – After 57 people were killed in Greece’s worst train disaster a year ago, the government promised to fix a system crumbling from decades of neglect. “Trains will resume operations with safety at the maximum possible level,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said weeks after the crash. One …

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Pope Francis skips reading at audience, says he still has a cold

28 Feb 2024 28 Feb 2024

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis skipped a reading at his Wednesday weekly audience, delegating the task to an aide and telling the faithful he was still not well. The 87-year-old pontiff, who has had a number of health issues recently, had cancelled appointments on Saturday and on Monday due to what the Vatican called …

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EU’s von der Leyen proposes using frozen Russian profits for Ukraine’s military

28 Feb 2024 28 Feb 2024

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union should consider using profits from frozen Russian assets to buy military supplies for Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday. “It is time to start a conversation about using the windfall profits of frozen Russian assets to jointly purchase military equipment for Ukraine,” she told …

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Russia jails Ukrainian man for 11-1/2 years for attempting to buy secret missile parts

28 Feb 2024 28 Feb 2024

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A court in southern Russia has jailed a Ukrainian man for 11-1/2 years after convicting him of espionage for trying to procure secret missile components for Ukraine, Russian news agencies reported on Wednesday. The agencies cited Russia’s FSB security service as saying that the man, who it named as 57-year-old Sergei Krivitsky, …

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Swiss vote on higher pensions expected to be close

28 Feb 2024 28 Feb 2024

ZURICH (Reuters) – Switzerland will hold a referendum on Sunday on whether to increase pension payments to the elderly in what looks set to be a close vote, with initial enthusiasm giving way to growing concern about how the plan should be funded. Pitched by the Swiss Trade Union Federation and backed by left-of-centre parties, …

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Asylum applications in EU at highest level since 2015/16 crisis

28 Feb 2024 28 Feb 2024

By Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) -Asylum applications in the European Union jumped 18% to 1.14 million in 2023, the highest level since the 2015-2016 migrant crisis, data from the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) showed on Wednesday. The new data will likely fuel an already heated debate about migration and far-right sentiment ahead of …

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Macron’s Ukraine troop talk shakes up NATO allies

28 Feb 2024 28 Feb 2024

By John Irish, Michel Rose and Andrew Gray PARIS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron wanted to create “strategic ambiguity” by openly discussing the idea of sending Western troops to Ukraine, but he was so ambiguous that he sparked confusion and irritation among some allies. Macron’s comments at a late-night news conference, after he hosted a …

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Odysseus moon lander still operational, in final hours before battery dies

28 Feb 2024 28 Feb 2024

By Steve Gorman and Joey Roulette (Reuters) – Odysseus, the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon since 1972, neared the end of its fifth day on the lunar surface still operational, but with its battery in its final hours before the vehicle is expected to go dark, according to flight controllers. Texas-based Intuitive …

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Yellen: Moves to unlock value of frozen Russian assets ‘necessary and urgent’

27 Feb 2024 27 Feb 2024

By Andrea Shalal SAO PAULO (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday underscored the urgency of moving forward together with Western allies to unlock the value of frozen Russian sovereign assets to help Ukraine, but said the U.S. had no “preferred strategy” for how to do so. Yellen, speaking at a news conference ahead …

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