By Angelo Amante and Alvise Armellini ROME (Reuters) -Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s first woman prime minister, vowed on Tuesday to steer the country through some of the hardest times since World War Two and to maintain support for Ukraine in its conflict with Russia. Striking a combative tone in her maiden speech to parliament, Meloni said …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranian authorities have made more arrests in “the case of French spies”, the judiciary spokesperson said on Tuesday, saying those newly detained had been accused of “conspiracy and collusion” with the aim of harming national security. France lashed out at Iran for “dictatorial practices” and taking two of its citizens hostage earlier …
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By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is considering sending older HAWK air defense equipment from storage to Ukraine to help it defend against Russian drone and cruise missile attacks, two U.S. officials told Reuters. The HAWK interceptor missiles would be an upgrade to the Stinger missile systems – a smaller, shorter range air …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday called on Israel to join the fight against Russia and repeated a request for Israeli air defense systems. “Isn’t it time for your state to choose who you are with as well?” Zelenskiy said in a video speech to a conference for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. “Is …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner “does not expect miracles” at her appeal hearing on Tuesday against a nine-year Russian jail term for having cannabis oil in her luggage, her lawyers said in a statement. The twice Olympic gold medallist was arrested on Feb. 17 at a Moscow airport with vape cartridges containing cannabis …
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By Manuel Ausloos PARIS (Reuters) – Hadj Benhalima sized up the building in front of him then took a run at the wall, pushed off its surface with one foot, twisted around in mid-air and reached out to flick a switch a few metres off the ground. A clunk and brief second later, the glaring …
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By Charlotte Van Campenhout KASTERLEE, Belgium (Reuters) – Hundreds of competitors, many dressed up as pirates, nuns, animals or vegetables, climbed into carved-out pumpkins and paddled them around a pond in northern Belgium, in an annual relay race. The race in Kasterlee started in 2008 after local growers decided they needed to find a different …
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By Leon Malherbe and Parisa Hafezi BERLIN/DUBAI (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of people marched in Berlin on Saturday in a show of support for protesters in Iran where unrest ignited by Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody entered a sixth week despite a deadly state crackdown. The protests have posed one of the boldest challenges …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s parliament failed on Monday to elect a president for the fourth time, with just a week left until outgoing President Michel Aoun’s term ends and warnings of a constitutional crisis growing louder. With parliament more fractured than ever after May’s elections, political blocs have been unable to reach consensus on a …
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By Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS (Reuters) – A group of victims of sexual abuse says the Catholic church is reacting too slowly to a report revealing assaults by French clergy on more than 200,000 children, and is urging President Emmanuel Macron to raise the issue directly with Pope Francis on Monday. Macron is meeting the pontiff …
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