STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Norwegian emergency services evacuated hundreds of people in various locations on Tuesday, the second day that heavy rains caused landslides, with the risk of more, as a storm sweeps over the Nordics. Strong winds, intense rain and landslides hit parts of the Nordic region, knocking out power lines, flooding villages and bringing …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany has offered to extend the deployment of three Patriot air defence units in Poland until the end of 2023, the defence ministry in Berlin said on Tuesday. “An extension beyond the end of 2023 is not foreseen,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that some of Germany’s Patriot units were needed …
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By Nandita Bose (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s top labor adviser, Celeste Drake, has stepped down, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter, as the administration attempts to maintain labor peace and avoid threatened strikes during an election year. Drake is leaving the White House to serve as the Deputy Director-General of the …
KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine, facing difficulties in exporting its grain, has asked farmers to report their sowing plans for 2024 to form preliminary estimates for the 2024/25 season. “The ministry … is launching a survey of farmers in preparation for the autumn sowing campaign,” the farm ministry said in a statement late on Monday. “This …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s defence ministry has agreed to send additional troops to the border with Belarus following a request from the border guard service, state-run news agency PAP reported on Tuesday. Poland’s border guard service asked the defence ministry to send an additional 1,000 troops to the border, the deputy interior minister said on …
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By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Sea ice in the Antarctic region has fallen to a record low this year as a result of rising global temperatures and there is no quick fix to reverse the damage done, scientists said on Tuesday in a new study of the impact of climate change on the continent. …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish pipeline operator PERN said on Tuesday that it had restored the Druzhba oil pipeline to full functionality as expected, after a leak had been discovered. PERN halted pumping through a section of the pipeline, which connects Russia to Europe, after detecting a leak in central Poland on Saturday. The operator said …
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By Leonardo Benassatto and Ueslei Marcelino BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) – Raoni Metuktire, an Indigenous chief from Brazil’s Amazon, will urge the region’s head of state meeting here this coming week to step up their efforts to preserve the rainforest that is vital to his people’s survival and the global climate. “I will ask the presidents …
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Heavy rainfall drenched southern Scandinavia on Monday, causing a train to derail and roads to flood in what officials in Sweden and Norway warned could become the most extreme wet weather system to hit the region in decades. Swedish and Norwegian meteorologists issued red alerts, the most severe warning level, covering several …
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NICOSIA (Reuters) – Firefighting crews from Greece, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan and Britain, were dispatched on Monday to battle a forest fire in Cyprus raging north of the city of Limassol. The blaze broke out on Sunday afternoon and quickly spread through a semi-mountainous region, prompting the precautionary evacuation of three communities on Sunday night. By …
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