PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron re-appointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister on Friday and tasked him with forming a new cabinet, Macron’s office said in a statement. (Reporting by Michel Rose and Elizabeth Pineau, editing by Inti Landauro)
By Sarah Kinosian (Reuters) -Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, a 58-year-old industrial engineer, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Over the past two years, she has reenergized a politically disengaged population after more than a decade of economic and social collapse. Machado has been in hiding in Venezuela since 2024, when electoral …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine rejected in a joint statement on Friday any “foreign guardianship” over Gaza, stressing that its governance is a purely internal Palestinian matter. They also expressed their readiness to benefit from Arab and international participation in the reconstruction of the enclave. (Reporting …
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By Trevor Stynes (Reuters) -The city of Udine has put extraordinary security measures in place ahead of Italy’s upcoming World Cup soccer qualifier with Israel, as a pro-Palestinian march will go ahead on the day of the game, even after Israel and Hamas agreed on a peace deal. The agreement, ratified by Israel’s government on …
By Gwladys Fouche and Tom Little OSLO (Reuters) -Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting dictatorship in the country and dedicated the award in part to U.S. President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly insisted he deserved it. Machado, a 58-year-old industrial engineer who lives in hiding, …
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(Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that Russia deliberately waited for bad weather before staging a vast attack on Ukraine’s energy system, adding the conditions reduced the efficiency of air defences by between 20% and 30%. “The main assault was in four regions,” Zelenskiy told reporters in Kyiv. “I believe that the weather …
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HELSINKI (Reuters) -Denmark will invest 27.4 billion crowns ($4.26 billion) to boost its military presence in the Arctic and plans to buy 16 new F-35 aircraft, it said on Friday, seeking to fend off U.S. criticism over Greenland’s defence capabilities. The 16 F-35s, worth another 29 billion crowns, would be in addition to Denmark’s original …
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders, who is leading polls ahead of this month’s election, on Friday suspended all his campaign activities due to a possible security threat. Wilders, in a post on X, said the Dutch national anti-terrorism agency NCTV had confirmed to him that a group that was seen to be planning …
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By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. first lady Melania Trump said she had secured an open line of communication with Russian President Vladimir Putin about repatriating Ukrainian children caught up in the war with Russia, and that some have been returned to their families with more to be reunited soon. “This remains an ongoing effort,” …
MOSCOW (Reuters) -The first direct passenger flight from Riyadh to Moscow operated by Saudia, Saudi Arabia’s national airline, touched down in the Russian capital on Friday amid warming ties between the two oil producers. Saudia said it is planning three direct return flights per week to Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport in a move likely to spur …
