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SOFIA (Reuters) – Two bodies more were recovered in Bulgaria’s Black Sea coastal area on Wednesday, bringing to four the death toll from floods triggered by torrential rains, Bulgarian News Agency BTA reported. The bodies of a local judge, her daughter — a veterinarian –, and a man were found in a submerged car that …

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By Sarah Marsh and Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday called on the ruling coalition, democratic opposition and local authorities to pull together to overcome the “mildew of red tape, risk averseness and despondency” that has spread across Europe’s largest economy in recent years. “The citizens are fed up with this …

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By Pavel Polityuk and Gleb Garanich KYIV (Reuters) -Russia carried out air strikes on Kyiv and the southern Ukrainian region of Odesa early on Wednesday, killing a civilian and causing a fire and damage at a Danube River port, Ukraine’s military said. During a nearly three-hour drone attack on Odesa, several agricultural and port facilities …

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By Jamie Freed (Reuters) -It was not possible for the pilot to recover from the tail rotor failure on a helicopter that crashed and killed Leicester City soccer club owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha in 2018, Britain’s aviation accident investigator reported on Wednesday. Pilot Eric Swaffer, his partner Izabela Roza Lechowicz and two members of Vichai’s staff, …

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PARIS (Reuters) -EU justice chief Didier Reynders on Tuesday said he had been assigned the European Commission’s competition portfolio following outgoing Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager’s announcement that she is officially a candidate for the presidency of the European Investment Bank. “I have been assigned the portfolio responsibility for Competition. I will continue to ensure that …

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By Lucila Sigal BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Priests from poor districts in Buenos Aires held a mass on Tuesday to defend Argentine Pope Francis after radical right-wing presidential candidate Javier Milei denounced him as an “imbecile” and “representative of evil”. Milei, an outsider libertarian economist, is leading in the polls ahead of an Oct. 22 …

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By Dave Sherwood and Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) -Cuba has uncovered a human trafficking ring that coerced its citizens to fight for Russia in the war in Ukraine, its foreign ministry said, adding that Cuban authorities were working to “neutralize and dismantle” the network. The statement from Cuba’s foreign ministry late on Monday gave few …

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