ROME (Reuters) -Italy’s government said on Thursday it would appoint a special commissioner to address the effect of a drought crisis, along with a task force made up of leading officials from various ministries. Dry winter weather has stoked concerns that the country could face a second drought after a state of emergency was declared …
By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s government approved on Thursday the abolition of the scandal-hit immigration agency SEF, whose border force officers, uncertain about their future, have mooted industrial action during the usually busy Easter period. The officers agreed to start a five-day strike on Thursday but their union suspended the first day of …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Global companies that form alliances to help them to tackle climate change need clear “safe harbour” guidelines from governments to allay fears they could be tripped up by antitrust rules, legal experts said. Hundreds of companies have banded together into various groups with pledges to reduce carbon emissions to net zero by mid-century. …
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By Elvira Pollina MILAN (Reuters) -Four-times Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been diagnosed with leukaemia, a source close to the matter said on Thursday, a day after he was admitted to intensive care with breathing problems. The 86-year-old, whose media empire has made him a billionaire, is being treated in a cardiac unit of …
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By Rami Ayyub WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on his fellow Republicans in Congress to slash funding for the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI, one day after pleading not guilty in New York to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump, who is seeking to regain the presidency in …
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YEFREMOV, Russia (Reuters) – A Russian girl who was sent to an orphanage after drawing an anti-war picture, for which her father was convicted for discrediting the armed forces, has been collected by her mother who has not lived with the family for at least seven years. Russia introduced severe punishments for discrediting the armed …
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GAZA (Reuters) – Palestinian militants fired rockets into southern Israel for a second day on Thursday, the Israeli military said, after a police raid at a Jerusalem flashpoint holy site triggered crossborder fire and stoked fears of further escalation. There were no casualties reported in the early morning rocket attack from the blockaded Gaza Strip, …
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -It will likely be difficult to determine who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines connecting Russia and Germany in the Baltic Sea last year, Sweden’s prosecution authority, which is investigating the incident, said on Thursday. The Sept. 26 explosions at the pipelines connecting Russia and Germany occurred in the economic zones of Sweden …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Sinan Abu Mayzer GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli police clashed with Palestinians at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque a second time on Wednesday, witnesses said, hours after the arrest and removal of more than 350 people in a police raid at the compound and despite a U.S. appeal to ease tensions. The confrontations, during …
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(Reuters) -A man armed with a small axe climbed over a wall into a crèche in Southern Brazil and killed four children on Wednesday, police said, injuring five others in the attack. The 25-year-old man turned himself in to police after the rampage, security chief Marcio Alberto Filippi told reporters. Police said three boys – …
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