VIENNA (Reuters) -An Austrian court on Thursday ordered the conditional transfer of 88-year-old incestuous rapist Josef Fritzl to a regular prison from a prison psychiatric unit, his lawyer told reporters after the hearing. Fritzl, who has now changed his name to one not made public, raped his daughter as he held her captive for 24 …
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(Reuters) -Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday of shooting down a military transport plane carrying 65 captured Ukrainian soldiers to a prisoner exchange. Ukraine’s military General Staff, without saying whether it downed the plane or not, said in a statement it would continue to destroy Russian military aircraft which it believed were carrying missiles with which …
By Anita Komuves and Gergely Szakacs BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungary’s parliamentary speaker said on Thursday there was no urgency in approving Sweden’s NATO membership bid after ratification by Turkey left only Budapest holding up the lengthy accession process. Turkey’s general assembly, where President Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling alliance holds a majority, voted 287-55 to approve the application …
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By Sergio Goncalves and Miguel Pereira LISBON (Reuters) – Thousands of off-duty police officers in plain clothes on Wednesday protested in Lisbon for better wages, demanding the same increases in hazard pay that the outgoing government recently granted to the criminal investigation police (PJ). In late November, after Prime Minister Antonio Costa’s resignation but while …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s population rose by 300,000 over the course of 2023 to a new record of 84.7 million people, as net migration to the country compensated for its low birth rate and ageing population, the statistics office said on Thursday. The increase was in line with averages seen between 2012 and 2021, but …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday of deliberately shooting down a Russian military transport plane carrying 65 captured Ukrainian soldiers to a prisoner exchange in what it called a barbaric act of terrorism that had killed a total of 74 people. Ukraine did not directly confirm it had shot down the Ilyushin Il-76 military …
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By Nathan Layne, Gram Slattery and James Oliphant MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) – Donald Trump and Joe Biden attacked each other on Wednesday as they prepared for a likely election rematch in November after Trump’s win in New Hampshire’s Republican presidential primary made his White House nomination increasingly likely, although his last remaining rival Nikki …
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By Timour Azhari and Phil Stewart BAGHDAD (Reuters) -The United States and Iraq are set to initiate talks on the end of a U.S.-led international military coalition in Iraq and how to replace it with bilateral relations, four sources said, a step forward in a process that was stalled by the Gaza war. The U.S. …
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ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s government is set to propose tougher jail terms for cybercrime and stricter disclosure rules for public bodies that come under attack from hackers, according to a draft law seen by Reuters on Wednesday. The bill, set for discussion at a cabinet meeting on Thursday, comes after repeated instances of ransomware and …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court will in March review Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction and 20-year prison sentence for helping the disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Wednesday scheduled oral arguments in Maxwell’s appeal for March 12 before …
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