(Reuters) – Slovak President Zuzana Caputova will meet Robert Fico, whose SMER-SSD party won Saturday’s election, at 3 p.m. (1300 GMT) on Monday and hand him a political mandate to start negotiations to form a new government, her office said. Fico and his party won nearly 23% of the vote after campaigning to end military …
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PARIS (Reuters) – France started vaccinating ducks against bird flu on Monday to try and stem the virus that killed millions of birds around the world, a move that prompted the United States to impose trade restrictions on French poultry imports. France has been among the countries worst affected by an unprecedented global spread of …
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By David Morgan, Moira Warburton and Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Congress passed a stopgap funding bill late on Saturday with overwhelming Democratic support after Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy backed down from an earlier demand by his party’s hardliners for a partisan bill. The Democratic-majority Senate voted 88-9 to pass the measure to …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Serbia’s troop deployment on Kosovo’s border recalls Russia’s behaviour towards Ukraine before its invasion, the Kosovar foreign minister said, urging the European Union to take action against Belgrade such as freezing its candidacy status. The warning comes after the United States said on Friday it was monitoring a troubling Serbian military build-up …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s top diplomat said on Monday Washington’s support for Kyiv was not weakening, and played down the significance of a stopgap funding bill passed by U.S. Congress that omitted aid to Ukraine. U.S. and other Western military assistance has been vital for Ukraine to fight back against the full-scale invasion launched by …
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A fire that swept through a crowded wedding hall in a northern Iraqi town killing more than 100 people was blamed on “gross negligence” and lack of safety measures, the results of a government investigation into the disaster said. The investigation results, announced at a news conference on Sunday by interior minister …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a speech released on Sunday that nothing would weaken his country’s fight against Russia, a day after the U.S. Congress passed a stopgap funding bill that omitted aid to Ukraine. Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said separately he had received reassurances about further military assistance in a …
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MADRID (Reuters) -At least 13 people have been killed in a fire in a nightclub in Murcia in southeast Spain, emergency services said on Sunday, adding that rescuers were still searching for people unaccounted for after the blaze. Outside the club, young people hugged, looking shocked as they waited for information after the fire that …
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By Philip Blenkinsop and Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union launched on Sunday the first phase of the world’s first system to impose CO2 emissions tariffs on imported steel, cement and other goods as it tries to stop more polluting foreign products from undermining its green transition. The planned tariff has caused disquiet …
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By Justyna Pawlak WARSAW (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of people held an opposition rally in Warsaw on Sunday, two weeks ahead of an election that the liberal Civic Platform (PO) says may decide Poland’s future in the European Union and its democratic standing. Opinion polls suggest the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) government could …
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