(Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said this month that Russia was considering withdrawing from the Black Sea grain deal as he accused the West of cheating Moscow because it still faced obstacles getting its own agricultural goods to world markets. Putin said he would discuss the future of the grain deal with visiting African leaders …
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ATHENS (Reuters) – Italy on Friday alerted Greece to a vessel holding dozens of migrants sailing off the southern coastal town of Pylos, two sources said, just two days after an overcrowded fishing boat sank nearby killing at least 78 people. “It is sailing about 100 miles west of Pylos, it was located by an …
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VIENNA (Reuters) – It is unclear whether water from the huge reservoir of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine that burst last week can still be pumped to the nearby Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) for cooling, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Friday. While the reservoir was a main source of water for cooling the …
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By Aleksandar Vasovic and Fatos Bytyci BELGRADE/PRISTINA (Reuters) – A Serbian court on Friday ordered the continued detention and investigation of three Kosovo policemen arrested this week in a border area in disputed circumstances. Kosovo says the three were arrested inside its territory by Serbian officers who had crossed the border. Belgrade says they were …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – The Polish parliament passed a watered down version of a law on undue Russian influence on Friday, backpedaling on a bill the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party approved last month. The bill passed by a 235-5 margin, with nine abstentions as opposition did not take part in the vote. After the …
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(Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 struck France on Friday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The earthquake’s epicenter was near a commune in the Charente-Maritime region of western France, at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), GFZ said. There was no immediate information on casualties or damage from the quake. The …
By Sabine Siebold and Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) -NATO defence ministers failed on Friday to reach agreement over new plans on how the alliance would respond to a Russian attack, and one diplomat blamed Turkey for blocking them. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the ministers reviewed the plans – the first since the end of …
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By Lefteris Papadimas and Stamos Prousalis KALAMATA, Greece (Reuters) -Rescuers scoured the seas off Greece on Thursday following a shipwreck that killed at least 78 migrants, as hopes of survivors dwindled and fears grew that hundreds more, including children, may have drowned inside the crowded vessel’s hold. Reports suggested between 400 and 750 people had …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Russia’s embassy in Israel will open a branch office in Jerusalem as part of an agreement with the city, the embassy and an Israeli foreign ministry official said on Friday. The Russian embassy in Israel said in a statement that the deal over a land plot in West Jerusalem, which Russia purchased …
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By Emma Farge and Cecile Mantovani GENEVA (Reuters) – The Swiss government hopes voters will support a draft climate law aiming to cut emissions to net zero by 2050 as it seeks to comply with its global commitments after an earlier attempt failed. The 2021 climate law that included new tax levies was rejected as …
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