By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) -Residents of the Dutch-Caribbean told a court on Tuesday that climate change had made life on their island of Bonaire unbearably hot and dry and asked judges to order the Dutch state to cut greenhouse gases more quickly. Onnie Emerenciana, a farmer in his 60s, told the …
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ATHENS (Reuters) -Four migrants died after their boat sank off the Greek island of Lesbos, Greece’s coastguard said on Tuesday after launching a search-and-rescue operation in the area. So far, 34 migrants have been found safe ashore in the south of the island, a coastguard official said, adding that at least three vessels and one …
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ROME (Reuters) -Italy will submit a proposal for a worldwide ceasefire to the United Nations ahead of next year’s Milano-Cortina winter Olympics, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Tuesday. As a concept, a global truce during the Olympics dates to the ancient games in Greece where warring factions agreed to put down their arms for the …
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CENTRAL ISRAEL (Reuters) -The world came to know her as the little Israeli-American girl who lost her parents in Hamas’ October 7 attack and was abducted by the militant group to Gaza. Two years on, with a new pink backpack, she’s off to her first day of school. “She was so excited,” said her aunt …
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VIENNA (Reuters) -Austria is looking into stripping fugitive ex-Wirecard executive Jan Marsalek of his citizenship after reports that he is living in Russia, spied for Moscow and joined Russian forces in Ukraine, the interior ministry said on Tuesday. Marsalek, 45, has been on the run since soon after German payments firm Wirecard collapsed in 2020 …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s state nuclear energy company said on Tuesday that a Ukrainian drone had tried to strike a nuclear plant in Russia’s Voronezh region, which borders Ukraine. In a statement, Rosenergoatom said the drone was “suppressed by technical means” and detonated after crashing into a cooling tower at the Novovoronezh plant. “There was no …
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) -German family-owned construction materials maker Knauf Group said on Tuesday that attempts to sell its business in Russia, ongoing since April last year, have failed. The family-owned company with about 15.6 billion euros ($18.20 billion) in sales said in a statement an unnamed prospective buyer of the Russian assets had walked away from …
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By Jan Lopatka PRAGUE (Reuters) -Czech populist billionaire Andrej Babis said he may take ministers nominated by eurosceptic and far-right parties into a government he is trying to form after his ANO party won a parliamentary election but fell short of a majority. Babis initially said after the October 3-4 vote that he wanted an …
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Leo will travel to Turkey and Lebanon in late November, the Vatican announced on Tuesday, in the first visit outside Italy by the new leader of the 1.4-billion-member global Catholic Church. Leo, the first U.S. pope, will visit Turkey from November 27-30 before heading to Lebanon from November 30 to December …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin on Tuesday promised that Russia would formulate an appropriate response to reported plans by the European Union to restrict the movement of Moscow’s diplomats within the bloc. European Union countries are moving towards a deal to curb the movement of Russian diplomats within the EU, but no formal agreement has been …
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