BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union parliament awarded its annual Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Iranian woman Mahsa Amini who died in police custody last year and the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement in Iran, it said on Thursday. “On 16 September we marked one year since the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini in …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -NATO is stepping up patrols in the Baltic Sea following recent damage to undersea infrastructure in the region, the transatlantic military alliance said on Thursday. “The increased measures include additional surveillance and reconnaissance flights, including with maritime patrol aircraft, NATO AWACS planes, and drones. A fleet of four NATO minehunters is also being …
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By Yusri Mohamed, Aidan Lewis and Simon Lewis CAIRO/WASHINGTON, Egypt (Reuters) -The United States was still hammering out details of a deal with Israel and Egypt on Thursday to get aid into the Palestinian Gaza Strip as Egypt sent machinery to repair roads in expectation the Rafah crossing would soon open. Rafah is the only …
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By Gabriela Baczynska, Marine Strauss and Julia Payne BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Ministers from across the European Union said on Thursday that member states must screen migrants and asylum seekers better and expel those deemed a security risk more quickly, after Islamist attacks highlighted persistent difficulties. Interior and justice ministers met in Luxembourg to discuss what …
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By Andrius Sytas and Marie Mannes VILNIUS/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Estonia said on Thursday it would probe the damage on a Baltic Sea telecoms cable connecting the country to Sweden as part of its ongoing investigation about the rupture caused on another telecoms cable, connecting Tallinn with Helsinki. On Oct.8 a gas pipeline and telecoms cable …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak met Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Israel on Thursday, Sunak’s office said, where the pair stressed the need to avoid further escalation of violence in the region. “The Prime Minister and President Herzog stressed the imperative need to avoid further escalation of violence in the region. They …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius travelled to Lebanon on Thursday to visit German soldiers serving in a U.N. peacekeeping force in the region in the wake of a major escalation between neighbouring Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. Berlin has deployed some 140 soldiers on a corvette off the Lebanese coast …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s president will meet parliamentary party leaders next week, his office said, as the nation waits to see whom he will task with forming a government after the ruling nationalists lost their majority in a general election. Pro-European Union opposition parties won a majority in Sunday’s ballot, a huge shift for Poland …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has detained an editor at U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) for failing to register as a foreign agent, the broadcaster said. What is known – and what is unknown – about the detention? WHO? Alsu Kurmasheva, is an editor with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Tatar-Bashkir Service. She joined RFE …
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(Reuters) – The European Union (EU) will host leaders of some 20 countries next week to boost its global infrastructure plan aimed at competing with China in strategic regions, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Heads of state who will attend the EU’s Global Gateway Forum on Oct. 25-26 in …
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