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By Emma Farge and Kate Abnett GENEVA/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Citizens affected by climate change are suing the governments of more than 30 European countries in three separate cases before the European Court of Human Rights, alleging that state inaction has violated their human rights. They are the first such cases to be heard before the …

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PARIS (Reuters) -Fuel shipments resumed early Friday from TotalEnergies Gonfreville refinery in Normandy after police intervened to disperse refinery workers holding a blockage, Energy Minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher said on Friday. “Gonfreville is France’s largest refinery, the one that supplies the whole Ile-de-France region. As we speak, fuel is coming out of the refinery,” Pannier-Runacher told …

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By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark on Thursday invited the Russian-controlled operator of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to help salvage an unidentified object found close to the only remaining intact gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea. Three explosions last September on the Nord Stream pipelines built to deliver Russian gas to Germany have …

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By Layli Foroudi PARIS (Reuters) – France’s National Assembly on Thursday approved the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) video surveillance during the 2024 Paris Olympics, overlooking warnings from civil rights groups that the technology posed a threat to civil liberties. The government says algorithmic video surveillance can detect “pre-determined events”, abnormal behaviour and crowd surges, …

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By James Mackenzie JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu summoned his defence chief on Thursday after reports the minister wanted to halt the government’s judicial overhaul plans, as cracks opened in the ruling coalition over the bitterly disputed project. A planned statement by Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, whom Israeli media said wanted to call …

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By Nick Starkov KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday urged Europe to increase and speed up supplies of modern weaponry and impose tougher sanctions on Russia, saying otherwise the war could drag on for years. In a long and sharply worded video address to EU leaders, delivered from a train, Zelenskiy said it …

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By Laila Bassam and Aziz El Yaakoubi BEIRUT/RIYADH (Reuters) -Syria and Saudi Arabia have agreed to reopen their embassies after cutting diplomatic ties more than a decade ago, three sources with knowledge of the matter said, a step that would mark a leap forward in Damascus’s return to the Arab fold. Contacts between Riyadh and …

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By Emily Rose JERUSALEM (Reuters) -A senior Israeli intelligence officer has spent 28 years as an army reservist, sometimes leaving his family at a moment’s notice to go on duty overseeing classified projects out of love for his country. Now, he’s had a change of heart. “I’ve told the army that if the judicial reform …

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