By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) -France said on Wednesday that the European Union should consider sanctions on Israeli settlers who have targeted Palestinians in the West Bank as an option and that talks at the EU to impose sanctions on Hamas commanders were progressing. U.N. figures show that daily settler attacks have more than doubled …
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By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A cyber extortion gang suspected of being an offshoot of the notorious Russian Conti group of hackers has raked in more than $100 million since it emerged last year, researchers said in a report published on Wednesday. Digital currency tracking service Elliptic and Corvus Insurance in a joint report said …
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By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) -Former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan was attacked by another inmate in a Russian prison while serving a 16-year sentence on espionage charges, Russia’s prison service said on Wednesday, after Whelan’s brother publicised the incident. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow has been in phone contact with Whelan, who American officials understand …
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By Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS (Reuters) – A special tribunal on Wednesday ruled that French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti did not abuse his current position to settle scores with opponents from his career as a top lawyer. A pugnacious orator, Dupond-Moretti was alleged to have failed to have stepped back sufficiently from a case against a …
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By Andrew Gray, Francois Murphy and Ingrid Melander BRUSSELS/VIENNA (Reuters) -Member countries are divided over the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s annual foreign ministers’ meeting on Thursday with Baltic nations and Ukraine refusing to attend over the presence of Russia’s Sergei Lavrov. The 57-member OSCE is the successor to a Cold War-era organisation …
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(Reuters) – Slovak truckers will block the main border crossing with Ukraine from Friday, the country’s truckers association UNAS said, joining Polish protests to win restrictions against Ukrainian drivers. Polish truckers have been blocking several crossings with Ukraine since Nov. 6 to demand tougher conditions for Ukrainian peers. Polish and Slovak truckers complain Ukrainian truckers …
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MADRID (Reuters) -Four migrants died after being thrown from a speedboat yards from a beach in Cadiz in southern Spain, Guardia Civil police and rescue service said on Wednesday. The boat was carrying a total of 27 immigrants, 23 of whom arrived alive. Images published on social media and carried by local media, whose authenticity …
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By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders on Wednesday said that forming a minority government with himself as prime minister is a possibility, following last week’s election in which his Freedom Party (PVV) won the most seats. The two biggest right-leaning parties that Wilders hopes to work with said they are not …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s transport ministry said on Wednesday that weather conditions in the Black Sea remained unfavourable for shipping and that restrictions at Russian seaports would remain in place until the weather improved. Navigation is restricted around Russia’s Black Sea ports in the southern Krasnodar region due to a major storm that blew up earlier …
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KYIV (Reuters) – The European union has delivered about 300,000 of its promised million shells to Ukraine so far, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Wednesday while attending a NATO meeting in Brussels. Speaking to reporters on the event’s sidelines, Kuleba called for greater alignment of Ukraine’s and NATO’s defence industries to ensure Kyiv …
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