By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s new president said early on Monday she would submit a bill to Congress to bring general elections forward by two years, after the ouster of her predecessor sparked protests that have left at least three dead. President Dina Boluarte was sworn in last week after former President Pedro …
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Netherlands would be willing to house a new, U.N.-backed tribunal to try Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra said on Monday. Together with the EU, the Netherlands would seek international support and funding for the tribunal, Hoekstra said, adding the new court should not interfere with the work …
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By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Some European Union countries are trying to weaken the bloc’s planned law to cut methane emissions in the oil and gas sector, documents show, weeks after the EU pledged at the COP27 climate conference to do more to tackle the potent greenhouse gas. Methane is the second biggest cause …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Three people have been injured after being attacked on Monday evening by a man with an axe in a Lidl supermarket in Jeumont, northern France, local daily La Voix du Nord reported. Two of the victims were seriously injured while the third person’s injuries were less severe. The man later turned the …
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(Reuters) – Ukraine needs rapid assistance totalling $1 billion to return its electricity grid and centralised heating system to normal operation, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Monday. Shmyhal, in an address to a meeting of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, said Russian air attacks in recent weeks had damaged half the country’s …
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By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Russia is turning to decades-old ammunition with high failure rates as it burns through its stockpiles to carry out its nearly 10-month-old invasion of Ukraine, a senior U.S. military official said on Monday. “They have drawn from (Russia’s) aging ammunition stockpile, which does indicate that they are …
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PODGORICA (Reuters) – Montenegrin police used pepper spray to disperse hundreds of protesters in the capital Podgorica who rallied against the adoption of law to limit presidential powers and the ruling coalition’s failure to appoint judges to the constitutional court. Protesters, largely members of pro-Montenegrin organisations, who rallied under the slogan “We Are Many,” pelted …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday that economic cooperation between Germany and Russia could be possible again if the Kremlin ended its war in Ukraine. Scholz has said in previous speeches that the West would not lift sanctions imposed on Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine until Moscow withdrew …
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By Felix Light (Reuters) – Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer freed on Thursday after 14 years in U.S. custody in exchange for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner, has joined the Kremlin-loyal ultranationalist Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR), its leader said on Monday. In a video posted on Telegram, LDPR leader Leonid Slutsky, standing on a …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -A Belgian investigation into alleged corruption at the European Parliament is “very worrisome”, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday after raids and arrests linked to alleged money and gifts from Qatar. Prosecutors searched 16 houses and seized 600,000 euros ($631,800) in Brussels on Friday as part of the probe. …
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