By Marco Aquino and Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) -A convicted killer long suspected in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway arrived on Thursday in the U.S., where he faces extortion and fraud charges. Images broadcast on U.S. TV networks showed a plane carrying Joran van der Sloot, 35, landing in Birmingham, Alabama on Thursday …
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By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union ministers agreed on Thursday on how to share out the responsibility for looking after migrants and refugees, after 12 hours of negotiations got Italy and Greece to sign up to a deal that has eluded the bloc for nearly a decade. Home affairs ministers from the 27-member bloc …
(Reuters) – Two missiles hit sites near the city of Uman in central Ukraine on Thursday, injuring eight people, the regional governor said. Ihor Taburets, governor of Cherkasy region, wrote on the Telegram messaging app that the missiles hit an industrial site and a car wash in the evening. He said two of the injured …
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PARIS (Reuters) – France had rejected earlier this month an asylum demand made by the man behind the knife attack earlier on Thursday in the French town of Annecy, said French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin. Darmanin also told TF1 news that the Syrian refugee arrested over the attack had ‘certain Christian religious insignia’ upon him. …
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By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission proposed on Thursday a new ethics body to set standards of conduct across EU institutions whose image has been tarnished by a cash-for-influence scandal that affected the European Parliament at the end of last year. The creation of an ethics body became more urgent after Belgium …
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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Mines uprooted and dispersed by floodwaters surging downstream from the breached Kakhovka dam across swathes of southern Ukraine could pose a grave danger to civilians for decades to come, the Red Cross said. The vast Soviet-era Kakhovka dam, under Russian control, was breached in the early hours of Tuesday, unleashing …
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KYIV (Reuters) – About 600 square kilometres, or 230 square miles, of the Kherson region in southern Ukraine was under water on Thursday following the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam, the regional governor said. Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said 68% of the flooded territory was on the Russian-occupied left bank of the Dnipro River. The …
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By Kirstin Ridley and Sinead Cruise LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s M&G recorded 1 billion pounds ($1.25 billion) of net inflows to its wholesale asset management business in the first quarter, offsetting expected redemptions from institutional clients. The insurer and asset manager said net client inflows, excluding its Heritage business, stood at 0.4 billion pounds, despite …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s competition regulator said Hitachi’s 1.7 billion euro ($1.8 billion) acquisition of Thales’ signalling business could raise the costs of upgrading the country’s rail network, and it needs the companies to address its concerns. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said Japan’s Hitachi Rail and France’s Thales SA’s Ground Transportation business were …
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By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) -Pope Francis was doing well on Thursday morning after his first night in hospital following abdominal surgery, the Vatican said. “The night went well,” the Vatican said in a brief statement, adding that more information would be released later in the morning. Francis, 86, underwent a three-hour operation in a …
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