By Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) – The EU has not observed any significant smuggling of weapons into Europe from wartime Ukraine, the European Commission’s top internal affairs official said on Thursday during a visit to Kyiv. “I must say that we have not seen any industrial smuggling of firearms out of Ukraine,” European Home Affairs …
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HELSINKI (Reuters) -Around 24 people, a majority of them children, were injured on Thursday when a temporary pedestrian bridge collapsed in the Finnish city of Espoo, just outside the capital Helsinki, rescue service said. The injuries were not life threatening, the Helsinki Hospital Authority said in a statement. The children were part of a group …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s railway union EVG on Thursday announced a new 50-hour strike to take place from Sunday to Tuesday as wage talks with state train operator Deutsche Bahn and around 50 other rail companies dragged on without a resolution. The walkout – set to start at 2000 GMT on Sunday and end at …
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(Reuters) – A survey by the closely-watched pollster Konda on Thursday showed Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan lagging his main rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu by more than five percentage points ahead of Sunday’s presidential election. The survey put support for Erdogan on 43.7% and Kilicdaroglu on 49.3%, leaving him short of the majority needed to win in …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The cancellation of a flight due to the sudden death of a crew member does not exempt an airline of its obligation to compensate passengers for the delay, the European Court of Justice said on Thursday. The EU top court’s judgment came in relation to a TAP Portugal flight that was cancelled …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -One person was killed and another injured in a shooting at a Mercedes-Benz plant in southwestern Germany on Thursday, authorities said, adding that one suspect had been detained. “This morning, shots were fired on the factory premises in Sindelfingen,” a spokesperson for the Stuttgart prosecutor said. “Two persons were injured, one of whom …
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(Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Poland’s decision to rename the Russian city of Kaliningrad in its official documents was a “hostile act”, as ties continue to fray over the Ukraine war. Kaliningrad, which sits in an exclave that is sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland on the Baltic coast, was known by the German …
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By Felix Light TBILISI (Reuters) -Russia restored visa-free travel for citizens of Georgia on Wednesday and lifted a ban on direct flights between the two countries imposed in 2019, according to an official government decree. In a statement, Russia’s Transport Ministry said Russian airlines would operate seven flights weekly between Moscow and Tbilisi. It said …
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By Sarah Mills LIVERPOOL, England (Reuters) -Tvorchi, Ukraine’s electro pop-duo entry in Eurovision 2023, said they hoped to shine a spotlight on their country’s fight for freedom when they perform in the grand final in Liverpool on Saturday night. Formed in 2018 by Ukrainian producer Andrii Hutsuliak and Nigerian-born singer Jeffery Kenny, the pair wrote …
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PARIS (Reuters) – France’s anti-terrorism prosecution office on Wednesday announced it had opened an investigation for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity after an AFP video journalist was killed on Tuesday by Grad rocket fire near Chasiv Yar, in eastern Ukraine. (Reporting by Tassilo Hummel; Editing by Chris Reese)
