By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union’s top migration official said the bloc was set to agree on how to handle irregular immigration soon after ministers’ talks yielded no final deal on Thursday with Berlin and Rome worried over rising arrivals ahead of key elections. The ministers were searching for agreement on a long-stalled …
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By Fernando Kallas MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish soccer club Barcelona are under investigation for suspected “active bribery” as part of a probe into suspected corruption spanning two decades at the refereeing committee, according to a court document seen by Reuters on Thursday. Police also searched the offices of the football federation RFEF in Madrid on Thursday, …
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MADRID (Reuters) -A teenager wounded three teachers and one pupil in a stabbing in a high school in Jerez de la Frontera, southern Spain, police said. One of the teachers will undergo surgery, while the other three victims suffered light wounds, a source from Andalusia’s health services said. Police said the attacker had been detained. …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Russia carried out a big wave of air strikes on three Ukrainian regions early on Thursday in which Ukrainian officials said some attack drones had hit their targets but did not say what was damaged. Ukrainian air defences shot down 34 of 44 incoming “Shahed” drones, the air force said. The strikes …
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HAMDANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) – Calls for accountability grew on Thursday for the victims of a deadly fire at an Iraqi wedding celebration in a Christian town as grief-stricken mourners attended a packed memorial service and families buried their loved ones. More than 100 people died and at least 150 were injured on Tuesday evening in …
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VOLOS, Greece (Reuters) – Torrential rain battered central Greece, flooding streets, homes and businesses in the city of Volos just three weeks after devastating Storm Daniel killed 16 people in the wider region. More than 250 people have been evacuated from the area since Storm Elias struck on Wednesday afternoon, the fire brigade said on …
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By Catarina Demony (Reuters) -Six young people from areas in Portugal ravaged by wildfires and heatwaves went head-to-head with 32 European governments on Wednesday, alleging in court that their failure to act fast enough on climate change is a violation of their human rights. The case – filed in September 2020 against the 27 EU …
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By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday formally apologized after the speaker of the House of Commons praised a Nazi veteran in the chamber while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was present. Trudeau also said Ottawa had already reached out to Kyiv and Zelenskiy through diplomatic channels to apologize. Anthony …
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ATHENS (Reuters) – In the mud and debris of the flooded village of Metamorfosi in central Greece, 60-year-old farmer Athanasios Kostis is throwing out the memories of a lifetime. “All my memories are here. Now it is all totally destroyed. We have thrown out everything away,” Kostis told Reuters. Storm Daniel, Greece’s most intense since …
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By Jan Lopatka (Reuters) – Slovakia’s three-time prime minister Robert Fico is seeking a return to power in a Sept. 30 election, with final opinion polls showing his SMER-SSD party in a dead heat with its main challenger, the liberal Progressive Slovakia (PS). Fico turned increasingly more anti-Western while in opposition, and a Fico-led government …
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