MADRID (Reuters) – Labour unions representing ground service workers at Spanish airports plan to strike from late December into early January, Spain’s Iberia, part of the International Airlines Group, said. The country’s two main unions UGT and CCOO have called on workers to walk out between Dec. 29 and Jan. 7, Iberia said in a …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Slovakia has unblocked the movement of lorries across its border with Ukraine after three days of restrictions, Ukraine’s border service said on Thursday. Slovak hauliers blocked truck traffic from Ukraine on Monday, demanding the introduction of transport permits for Ukrainian vehicles. Protesters on the Polish-Ukrainian border had the same demand. “As of …
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(Reuters) – The European Commission, which has frozen other countries’ funding in similar cases, will take action against Slovakia if it enacts changes to criminal laws that violate European Union laws, EU justice commissioner Didier Reynders said on Wednesday. Ignoring a call by the commission to move slowly, the government of Prime Minister Robert Fico …
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By Florion Goga TIRANA (Reuters) – The Albanian parliament will have to suspend ratification of a migrant pact agreed with Italy after a top court on Wednesday endorsed an opposition request to review the constitutionality of the deal, according to a constitutional court statement. Last month, Italy agreed with Albania to build sea migrant reception …
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By Doina Chiacu (Reuters) -The United States and Britain on Wednesday imposed an additional round of sanctions on people in Turkey and elsewhere who are linked to the Palestinian Hamas militant group, the U.S. Treasury Department said. The sanctions target eight officials who advance Hamas’ agenda and interests abroad and help manage its finances, the …
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By Ilan Rosenberg and Frank Jack Daniel JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli citizens said on Wednesday the army should not back off from its unrelenting offensive to crush Hamas, despite the U.N. General Assembly’s ceasefire call, the growing list of troop casualties and a spiralling Palestinian death toll in Gaza. Israel’s military suffered one of the deadliest …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Natalia Yermakova’s husband, Alexander, has been fighting in Ukraine for over a year after responding to President Vladimir Putin’s mobilisation call as a volunteer. Wounded in the leg, he was operated on and then sent back to the front. A believer in what Russia calls its “special military operation” against Ukraine, Natalia is …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Fadi Shana and Emily Rose CAIRO/GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel announced its worst combat losses in more than a month on Wednesday after an ambush in the ruins of Gaza, and faced growing diplomatic isolation as civilian deaths mounted and a humanitarian catastrophe worsened in the Palestinian territory. Intense fighting was under way in …
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary will stick to its stance that the EU must not start membership talks with Ukraine but should aim for a strategic partnership instead, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in an interview with local website Mandiner broadcast on Wednesday. He also reiterated that the issue should be taken off the agenda of …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – New Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government was sworn in by the president on Wednesday, the final step in a transfer of power that marks a huge change after eight years of nationalist rule. After years of disputes between Warsaw and Brussels under the previous government, led by the Law and Justice …
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