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By Riham Alkousaa BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Greens party can weather disapproval from its environmentalist base over its role in approving the demolition of a village to expand a coal mine if it uses that concession to accelerate other climate policies, activists and analysts say. Two Greens ministers fronted the government decision to demolish Luetzerath …

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L’AQUILA, Italy (Reuters) – Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was being held on Wednesday in a high-security jail in central Italy, subject to special restrictions applied to the country’s most dangerous prisoners. “I’ve no criminal record,” Messina Denaro, who was caught on Monday after 30 years on the run, told prison guards when he was …

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By Ismail Shakil OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada summoned Russia’s ambassador on Wednesday over an attack in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro that killed at least 45 people, including several children, Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said. Officials summoned ambassador Oleg Stepanov to “make clear we do not accept the sheer brutality of Russia’s recent attacks against …

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By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) -A German remake of the anti-war classic “All Quiet On The Western Front” led nominations for the British Academy Film Awards on Thursday, overtaking other award season favourites with 14 nods. Based on the epic 1928 novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque about the horrors of conflict during World …

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(Reuters) – The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog said on Thursday he worried the world was becoming complacent about the considerable dangers posed by the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia atomic plant in Ukraine. Russian forces captured the plant, Europe’s largest, in March and it has repeatedly come under fire in recent months, raising fears of …

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BERLIN (Reuters) – German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier promised further military support to Ukraine on Thursday and warned the incoming defence minister that Germany’s armed forces must once again become capable of protecting the nation. Social Democrat Boris Pistorius was officially made minister on Thursday, at a time when Germany is under growing pressure from Western …

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DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Finland is prepared to support Ukraine in its war with Russia for as long as necessary, Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said on Tuesday while speaking at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos. “I think the only message that we need to send is that we will support Ukraine as …

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DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Al Gore said on Wednesday that the climate crisis was getting worse faster than world is tackling it and that he supported the recent action taken by Greta Thunberg in Germany. “We are not winning. The crisis is still getting worse faster than we are deploying these solutions,” the former U.S. …

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PARIS (Reuters) -A nationwide strike against pension reform in France led to a substantial fall in electricity output and halted deliveries from refineries operated by TotalEnergies on Thursday. EDF and grid operator RTE data showed electricity production was down by 7.8 Gigawatts (GW), roughly 12% of total power supply, prompting France to raise its imports …

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