By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Hungary is open to compromise with the European Commission to unblock its access to 7.2 billion euros ($7.57 billion) of EU recovery fund grants, a senior aide to Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday. Balazs Orban, political director for the Hungarian prime minister, told Reuters in an interview …
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By Steve Holland and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will provide an additional $450 million in security assistance to Ukraine, including more long-range rocket systems, U.S. officials said on Thursday. Moscow’s forces are advancing in Ukraine’s east in a bid to capture the industrial heartland known as the Donbas, where Ukraine fears some …
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By Richard Cowan, Moira Warburton and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump pressured top Justice Department officials nearly daily in the run-up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, urging officials to reverse his 2020 election defeat so that he could illegally hold onto power. That was the testimony on Thursday …
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By Sabine Siebold and Ingrid Melander BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union leaders on Thursday granted Ukraine the coveted status of official candidate to join their 27-nation club, a bold geopolitical step hailed by Kyiv and the EU itself as a “historic moment”. Although it could take Ukraine more than a decade to eventually join the bloc, …
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PARIS (Reuters) -French parties from left and right brushed off President Emmanuel Macron’s appeal for help to overcome a hung parliament on Thursday, demanding he clarify what compromises he was ready to make to win their backing. With no clear sign of an early solution to the impasse, his current prime minister, Elisabeth Borne, said …
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(Reuters) – Ukraine was formally accepted as a candidate for European Union membership on Thursday, a boost for morale in the war-weary country as Russian assaults wear down the defenders of two cities in the eastern Donbas region. FIGHTING * Ukrainian troops may need to retreat from the eastern frontline city of Lysychansk to avoid …
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By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris met a group of seven Democratic attorneys general on Thursday to discuss the defense to a major ruling that could dramatically curtail abortion rights in the country. The conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision in the coming days to overturn Roe …
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(Reuters) – Ukraine, in a symbolic move, on Thursday said it had formally filed a case against Russia at the European Court of Human Rights to end “the mass and gross human rights violations” by Moscow’s forces during the war in Ukraine. The bid has no chance of substantive success, given that on June 7 …
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By Joan Faus BARCELONA (Reuters) – The body of software entrepreneur John McAfee remains in a Spanish morgue a year after his death as a legal case lodged by his family to demand further checks is yet to be resolved, authorities and his lawyer said. McAfee, who launched the world’s first commercial anti-virus software in …
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By Jarrett Renshaw and Stephanie Kelly (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden rarely mentions electric car maker Tesla Inc in public. But privately his administration has leaned on the company to help craft a new policy to allow electric vehicles (EVs) to benefit from the nation’s lucrative renewable fuel subsidies, according to emails reviewed by …
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