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Polish police enter broadcaster Polsat’s offices in licensing probe

7 Nov 2024

WARSAW (Reuters) -Polish anti-corruption police secured documents from the headquarters of broadcaster Polsat on Thursday, a Polsat spokesperson said, amid an investigation into the licensing of sport broadcasting rights by state-run TVP. “There are ongoing activities to secure documents in an investigation… into actions taken to the detriment of TVP, including in connection with granting …

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Tusk says Poland will work on strengthening relations with US

7 Nov 2024

WARSAW (Reuters) – Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday Poland would work on strengthening its relations with the United States following Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election. Tusk was speaking to reporters before leaving for an EU summit in Budapest over Thursday and Friday at which Trump’s return to power and the collapse …

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With Trump win, Democrats ask anxious questions about their neighbors, country, party leadership

7 Nov 2024

By Timothy Aeppel, Andrea Shalal, Helen Coster and Tim Reid MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – In anxious conversations across the U.S. on Wednesday, many Democrats were struggling to understand what led their neighbors to vote Republican Donald Trump back into the White House. Some feared that Tuesday’s presidential election showed that their values – left-leaning, socially liberal …

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Diamond necklace possibly linked to Marie Antoinette’s demise up for auction

7 Nov 2024

By Cecile Mantovani and Denis Balibouse GENEVA (Reuters) – A diamond-studded necklace thought to be involved in a scandal that led to the eventual downfall of the last queen of France, Marie Antoinette, is being sold in Geneva next week. The Georgian-era piece containing 300 carats of diamonds being sold by a Asian private collector …

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EU lawmakers in talks to further weaken deforestation law, document shows

7 Nov 2024

By Kate Abnett and Maytaal Angel BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) – Centre-right lawmakers in the European Parliament have made proposals to further weaken the European Union’s beleaguered law to ban commodity imports linked to deforestation, a document seen by Reuters showed. In its current form, the landmark law would from Dec. 30 require companies importing soy, beef, …

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Spain floods: Improvised vet station treats pets sick from tainted mud

7 Nov 2024

By David Latona PAIPORTA, Spain (Reuters) – Volunteer veterinarians in eastern Spain’s flood-hit Paiporta are treating pets that have caught infections from the devastated town’s mud-filled streets at an improvised first-aid station with donated medicines and equipment. Paiporta is among the Valencia suburbs considered “ground zero” of last week’s deadly flash floods that have killed …

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Italy announces plan to shield research from foreign influence

7 Nov 2024

ROME (Reuters) – Italy is preparing a plan to shield its universities and research from foreign influence, a government undersecretary said on Thursday, to prevent other nations from obtaining valuable scientific and technological knowledge. Successive Italian governments have used anti-takeover legislation to ward off undesired bids – mostly targeting Chinese investments – in industries deemed …

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Israel strikes on Lebanon kill 40 people around Baalbek, health ministry says

7 Nov 2024

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Israeli strikes on Lebanon killed 40 people around the eastern city of Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley on Wednesday, according to the country’s health ministry, and at dusk more strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs. Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah have exchanged fire for over a year in parallel with the Gaza war but …

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Explainer-German coalition collapses: What comes next?

7 Nov 2024

By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s coalition collapsed on Wednesday as Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired his finance minister and paved the way for a snap election, triggering political chaos in Europe’s largest economy hours after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election. After dismissing Finance Minister Christian Lindner of the Free Democrats (FDP) party, Scholz …

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Leaders of Turkey, Cyprus have coffee in rare encounter

7 Nov 2024

NICOSIA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides met on the sidelines of a summit in Hungary on Thursday, Cypriot officials said, in a rare and unusual encounter between traditional foes. Turkey’s foreign minister Hakan Fidan was also present, while they were later joined by Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Edi Rama, prime …

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