By Kate Abnett and Julia Payne BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union plans to start taxing polluting aviation fuels have hit an impasse as the bloc’s 27 member states struggle to agree to make green fuels cheaper and fossil fuels more expensive, diplomats said. EU countries are negotiating an overhaul of energy taxes – which haven’t …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -One Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces, Palestinian health officials said, after committing a shooting attack that wounded six Israelis outside a shopping mall in the settlement of Ma’ ale Adumim in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. Israeli emergency services said two of the six Israelis were in a serious condition and …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United States has been told that Russia is prepared to return to talks on a deal that had allowed the safe Black Sea export of Ukraine grain, but “we haven’t seen any evidence of that yet,” the U.S. envoy to the United Nations said on Tuesday. Russia quit …
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By Lisandra Paraguassu and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) -South American trade bloc Mercosur officials met on Tuesday to agree on their counterproposal to a European Union addendum on a long-awaited trade deal before meeting with EU negotiators in August in the hopes of closing the accord by year-end, Brazilian diplomats told Reuters. The four-nation Mercosur …
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By Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland said on Tuesday it was rushing troops to its eastern border after accusing Belarus, Russia’s closest ally, of violating its airspace with military helicopters. The Belarusian military denied any such violation and accused NATO member Poland, one of Ukraine’s most fervent backers in its conflict with Russia, of making …
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By Piroschka van de Wouw AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A Dutch ultrarunner is running from Amsterdam to Kyiv to raise funds for charity and demonstrate how close the Ukraine war zone is to Western Europe. Boas Kragtwijk started on July 22 and plans to cover the 2,500 km by running around 50 km each day for …
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By Viktoria Lakezina TYLIHUL ESTUARY, Ukraine (Reuters) – Kite surfers bounce along the gentle waves. A speedboat pulls children on an inflatable raft. Families soak up sunshine on a narrow beach. With most of Ukraine’s Black Sea Coast either occupied by Russian troops or in their line of fire, families seeking respite from life in …
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By Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira LISBON (Reuters) -Waving their countries’ flags and singing, hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from all over the world flocked to one of Lisbon’s main parks on Tuesday to mark the start of the world’s largest gathering of young Catholics. “It’s very emotional,” said Brazilian pilgrim Vitor Goncalves, 25, as …
By Sergiy Chalyi ZAPORIZHZHIA REGION, Ukraine (Reuters) – The four propellers hum like a bee, the black drone zips into the air. Mykhailo, a 25-year-old Ukrainian soldier, stands under a tree surveying the whizzing landscape through his goggles, steering with fingertips on the remote. “Every time I put on my goggles and take the joystick, …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -A high-rise building in Moscow’s business district that houses three Russian government ministries was struck by a drone for the second time in three days on Tuesday, in what Russia called an attempted Ukrainian “terrorist attack”. A Ukrainian presidential adviser said Moscow should expect more drone attacks and “more war”. The building that …
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