By Stephen Farrell and Samia Nakhoul (Reuters) – Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader based in Qatar, has been the tough-talking face of the Palestinian group’s international diplomacy as war has raged back in Gaza where his family home was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in November. Appointed to the militant group’s top job in …
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By Essi Lehto HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finland will close all but the northernmost crossing point on its border with Russia from midnight on Friday in a bid to halt a flow of asylum seekers to the Nordic nation, Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said on Wednesday. Since the beginning of the month, more than 600 people without …
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By Jonathan Spicer and Sabine Siebold ANKARA/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Turkey has informed NATO that ratification of Sweden’s membership bid will not be completed in time to allow the country’s accession ceremony at a meeting of alliance foreign ministers next week, two sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. Last week, the Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs …
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By Bart H. Meijer, Charlotte Van Campenhout AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Dutch anti-EU far-right populist Geert Wilders will start looking for coalition partners on Thursday after a massive election win that is set to have wide repercussions in the Netherlands and Europe. A fan of Hungary’s eurosceptic Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the vocally anti-Islam Wilders has vowed …
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By Bart H. Meijer, Charlotte Van Campenhout AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Dutch anti-EU far-right populist Geert Wilders will start looking for coalition partners on Thursday after a massive election win that is set to have wide repercussions in the Netherlands and Europe. A fan of Hungary’s eurosceptic Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the vocally anti-Islam Wilders has vowed …
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – The Danish government said on Thursday Stephanie Lose of the Liberal Party would replace Troels Lund Poulsen as minister of economy. Liberal Party leader Lund Poulsen, who had temporarily held two ministerial posts, will keep the position of defence minister. He also remains deputy prime minister. (Reporting by Anna Ringstrom, editing by …
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(Reuters) -German authorities searched 15 properties on Thursday in connection with a recent ban on activities of Hamas as well as pro-Palestinian group Samidoun, the German interior ministry said in a statement. The searches in four German states, which started at 6 am local time (0500 GMT), are intended to enforce the ban as well …
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By Bassam, Masoud and Emily Rose GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel and Hamas agreed on Wednesday to a ceasefire in Gaza for at least four days, to let in aid and free at least 50 hostages held by militants in the Palestinian enclave in exchange for at least 150 Palestinians jailed in Israel. The first truce …
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By Bart H. Meijer and Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Dutch anti-EU far-right populist Geert Wilders, who has vowed to halt all immigration to the Netherlands, was set for a major victory in parliamentary elections on Wednesday, an exit poll showed. Beating all predictions, the exit poll put Wilders’ Freedom Party (PVV) at 35 out of …
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By Max Hunder PAVLOHRAD, Ukraine (Reuters) -After more than a thousand of its workers went to fight Russia’s invasion, a coal mining enterprise in eastern Ukraine suffered a huge staff shortage. Its answer was to allow women to work underground for the first time in its history. Over a hundred took up the offer. “I …
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