By Claudia Greco VENICE, Italy (Reuters) -Italian authorities were investigating on Wednesday the cause of the horrific crash of a bus carrying foreign tourists on the outskirts of Venice which killed 21 people including several children and injured 15 others. The electric bus crashed through the guardrail and off an overpass late on Tuesday in …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany currently has no plans to supply Ukraine with Taurus cruise missiles because they are not comparable to missiles provided by France and Britain, Bild newspaper reported on Wednesday. Berlin is also concerned that the missiles could be used to target the Kerch Bridge linking Russia to Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula seized …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia exchanged views with the United States and the European Union on the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh ahead of the lightning military operation by Azerbaijan last month, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday. Politico reported earlier that top officials from the United States and the EU met their Russian counterparts …
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(Reuters) – World soccer governing body FIFA announced on Wednesday that it had lifted Russia’s ban from international football by allowing under-17 girls and boys teams from the country to take part in tournaments. The move follows a similar relaxation on Russia youth teams last week by European soccer body UEFA. “This is conditional on …
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By Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) -Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev on Wednesday pulled out of an EU-brokered meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, dealing a blow to prospects for rescuing the peace process between the two countries. The meeting had been aimed at preventing any further escalation and restoring dialogue after Azerbaijan last month seized back …
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DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s main opposition party Sinn Fein, the favourite to win an election due within 18 months, said on Wednesday it favoured hiking a levy imposed on the country’s banks to match the sharply higher level of profits lenders are now making. The government is due to announce its future plans for the …
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By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU lawmakers on Tuesday voted for draft rules targeting Alphabet’s Google, Meta Platforms and other large online platforms’ content moderation restrictions after some media outlets complained about arbitrary decisions removing their content. The draft rules require online platforms to carry news content for 24 hours before taking it …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s navy said on Wednesday that 12 more cargo vessels were ready to enter a fledgling Black Sea shipping corridor on their way to Ukrainian ports, as Kyiv steps up a push to defy a de-facto Russian blockade on its vital sea exports. Russia, which has a much more powerful and bigger naval …
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden’s Royal Academy of Sciences appeared to have inadvertently published names of three scientists it said had won this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry, although the award-giving institute said the decision was still hours away. Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet published a copy of an email its said was from the academy naming the laureates …
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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia tested its emergency public warning systems across the country on Wednesday, blaring out sirens and interrupting some television and radio broadcasts to warn the population to stay calm. The test, first conducted in 2020, is part of a new initiative that requires authorities to conduct tests twice a year, …
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