By Horaci Garcia and Nacho Doce SURIA, Spain (Reuters) -Rescue workers in northeastern Spain pulled out the bodies of three dead geologists from a collapsed tunnel hundreds of metres (yards) underground at one of Western Europe’s largest potash mines, Catalonian regional leader Pere Aragones said. Two of the victims were students, one at the Polytechnic …
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By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) -The Italian government approved tougher jail terms for human smugglers on Thursday, days after at least 72 migrants died when their fragile, wooden boat smashed apart in stormy seas. In a symbolic move, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni held a Cabinet meeting in the seaside resort of Steccato di Cutro, close …
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By Caleb Davis (Reuters) -Russia said on Thursday that a landmark deal to ensure the safe export of grain from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports was only being “half-implemented”, raising doubts about whether it would allow an extension of the agreement due to expire next week. The Black Sea Grain Initiative, brokered by the United Nations …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgium’s Flemish regional government decided on Thursday to block access to Chinese-owned video app TikTok on its staff’s phones and computers after being advised by several Belgian security and cyber security agencies, an official statement said. A number of EU institutions have recently banned TikTok, which is owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, …
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POMPEII, Italy (Reuters) -A flock of grazing sheep is helping archaeologists to preserve the ancient ruins of Pompeii, the Roman city that was buried under metres of pumice and ash in the calamitous eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Archaeologists have uncovered only around two thirds of the 66-hectare (163 acres) site at Pompeii …
By Philip Blenkinsop STOCKHOLM/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Netherlands’ Trade Minister said a Chinese protest over the Dutch decision to impose restrictions on computer chip technology exports was “understandable”, but on Thursday said she expected diplomatic relations would remain good. Liesje Schreinemacher was speaking in Stockholm after the Netherlands said on Wednesday it would follow the …
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MILAN (Reuters) – Italian energy group Eni and U.S.-based Commonwealth Fusion System (CFS) signed a new collaboration agreement on Thursday to accelerate the industrialisation of nuclear fusion energy. The two partners, which started to cooperate in 2018, will work together on a series of projects aimed at launching a nuclear fusion power plant capable of …
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By Gabriela Baczynska and Marine Strauss BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgium on Thursday announced it would expand reception capacity to cope with what it called a migration “crisis” as EU ministers debated bringing down rising numbers of arrivals and overhauling their broken asylum rules ahead a bloc-wide election next year. Belgium, one the world’s richest countries, …
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By Dedi Hayoun BEN GURION AIRPORT, Israel (Reuters) – Israelis protesting judicial reforms sought by the hard-right government threatened to converge on the country’s main airport on Thursday to disrupt a trip abroad by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as a visit by the U.S. defense secretary. Police were out in force in and …
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By Ali Sawafta JABA, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli forces raided a Palestinian village close to the West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday, killing three Islamic Jihad militants they said were suspected of carrying out shooting attacks in the area. Islamic Jihad claimed the three, who the Israeli military said were suspected of multiple shooting …
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