PARIS (Reuters) – A French warship operating in the Red Sea has shot down two drones that were launched at it from the Yemen coast, the defence ministry said on Sunday. It said the multipurpose frigate Languedoc had intercepted and destroyed a first drone at around 9:30 p.m. local French time on Saturday, and a …
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MADRID (Reuters) – A deal over the post-Brexit status of the British territory of Gibraltar depends on agreement over use of the airport, Spain’s foreign minister, Jose Manuel Albares, said in an interview published on Sunday. The status of Gibraltar and how to police the border with Spain have been points of contention since Britain …
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – An Iranian court has begun the trial of a Swedish national employed by the European Union who was detained last year, Sweden’s foreign minister said on Saturday. “I have been informed that the trial of Johan Floderus has begun in Tehran,” Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom told Swedish news agency TT. “The Swedish …
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By Kate Abnett and Mohammed Benmansour DUBAI (Reuters) – The European Union’s climate chief on Saturday heavily criticised an attempt by OPEC to derail a COP28 deal on phasing out fossil fuels, calling the move by the oil producers’ club “unhelpful” and “out of whack”. Nearly 200 countries meeting in Dubai for the U.N.’s COP28 …
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By Kate Abnett, Valerie Volcovici and Yousef Saba DUBAI (Reuters) -Countries clashed on Saturday over a possible agreement to phase-out fossil fuels at the COP28 summit in Dubai, jeopardising attempts to deliver a first-ever commitment to eventually end the use of oil and gas in 30 years of global warming talks. Saudi Arabia and Russia …
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By Bassam Masoud and Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israel ordered residents out of the centre of Gaza’s main southern city Khan Younis on Saturday and pounded the length of the enclave, after the United States wielded its U.N. Security Council veto to shield its ally from a demand for a ceasefire. Since a truce collapsed …
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(Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was travelling to Argentina on Saturday to attend the inauguration of new Argentine President Javier Milei, his first trip to Latin America. Zelenskiy’s trip, announced on the Telegram messaging app, will focus on Ukraine’s longstanding bid to secure the support of countries in the Global South in Ukraine’s 21-month-old war …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spain, Ireland, Belgium and Malta want EU leaders to debate the situation in Gaza next week and jointly call for a lasting humanitarian ceasefire that would end the conflict, a letter to the chairman of EU summits showed. Leaders of the 27 EU countries will meet on Dec. 14-15 in Brussels to …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -A man with dual U.S.-Russian nationality has been placed in pre-trial custody in St Petersburg for “rehabilitating Nazism” in posts on social media, the city’s court service said on Saturday. Yuri Malev was charged over posts in which he was alleged to have denigrated the St George’s ribbon, a symbol of Russian military …
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By Nerijus Adomaitis OSLO (Reuters) – The teenage children of jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi fear they will never meet their mother again, but said they were proud of her struggle for women’s rights as they prepared to accept the award on her behalf on Sunday. Mohammadi, 51, who is serving multiple …
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