BERLIN (Reuters) – Scientists in Germany are working on ways to restore seagrass fields in the Baltic Sea, vast natural sinks that store millions of tonnes of carbon but which are shrinking fast in the face of falling water quality, global warming and disease. According to the Geomar Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, …
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By Pavel Polityuk and Jonathan Landay KYIV/MYKOLAIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -The world must respond firmly to any Russian attempts to disrupt Ukraine’s grain export corridor, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, as more ships were loading despite Moscow suspending its participation in a U.N.-brokered deal. One of the global consequences of Russia’s war on its neighbour has been …
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(Reuters) – Russia has launched a Soyuz rocket carrying a military satellite into space, Russian news agencies reported on Wednesday citing the defence ministry. The rocket – a Soyuz-2.1b medium-class launch vehicle – was launched at 9:48 a.m. Moscow time (0648 GMT) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, the ministry was quoted as saying. It did not …
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Former Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen looked set to become the king-maker after Denmark’s election on Tuesday, in which neither the ruling left nor right-wing opposition appeared to win a majority in parliament, according to early projections. Such an outcome could for the first time in more than four decades pave the …
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By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Treasury last month repelled cyber attacks by a pro-Russian hacker group, preventing disruption and confirming the effectiveness of the department’s stronger approach to financial system cybersecurity, a U.S. Treasury official said on Tuesday. The Treasury has attributed the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to Killnet, the Russian …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Payment-seeking software made by Russian hackers was used in three quarters of all the ransomware schemes reported to a U.S. financial crime agency in the second half of 2021, a Treasury Department analysis released on Tuesday showed. In analysis issued in response to the increase in number and severity of ransomware attacks …
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ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said on Tuesday that he believed a U.N. brokered grains deal that Russia had suspended over the weekend would continue, after two phone calls in as many days with his Russian counterpart. “Mr. (Sergei) Shoigu continues to discuss the issue with his own authorities in the light …
By Pavel Polityuk and Jonathan Landay KYIV/MYKOLAIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russia told civilians on Tuesday to leave an area along the eastern bank of the Dnipro River in the Ukrainian province of Kherson, a major extension of an evacuation order that Kyiv says amounts to the forced depopulation of occupied territory. Russia had previously ordered civilians …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Western Balkans leaders are set to sign three agreements on mutual recognition of identity cards, university degrees and professional qualifications at a summit in Berlin on Thursday, German government officials said. Moves towards closer integration aim to bring greater stability to a region that emerged from the break-up of Yugoslavia and the …
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HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin on Tuesday urged Hungary and Turkey to swiftly approve the Swedish and Finnish applications for membership of the NATO defence alliance. Hungary and Turkey are the only two remaining NATO members to not yet have ratified the applications. “All eyes are now on Hungary and Turkey. We are …
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