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ZURICH (Reuters) – The Swiss government proposed on Thursday letting its spy agency penetrate the country’s famous banking secrecy to snoop on financial transactions that it suspects are funding terrorism, espionage or violent extremism. Unveiling a draft amendment of the intelligence law for public comment, the cabinet pointed out that the Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) …

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By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -A handful of cases of monkeypox have now been reported or are suspected in Britain, Portugal, Spain and the United States. The outbreaks are raising alarm because the viral disease, which spreads through close contact and was first found in monkeys, mostly occurs in west and central Africa, and only …

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WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland will assist Sweden and Finland, should they be attacked before obtaining NATO membership, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Thursday. “I consider the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO as an important signal of strengthening security in Europe,” he said during a conference. “I want to make it clear that …

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BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he will travel to the Western Balkans before a meeting of the European Council takes place next month, bearing the message that the region belongs in the European Union. The six Western Balkan countries with EU membership aspirations – Montenegro, Serbia, Albania, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina …

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HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland does not want NATO to deploy nuclear weapons or set up military bases on its territory even if Finland becomes a member, the Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin told an Italian newspaper in an interview published on Thursday. Finland and Sweden formally applied to join the NATO alliance on Wednesday, a …

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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australians vote on Saturday in a national election, with the conservative Liberal-National coalition seeking a fourth straight term and the Labor Party seeking a return to power after nine years in opposition. Opinion polls have shown Labor leading, but the gap has narrowed in the final weeks of campaigning. A strong showing …

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By Nevzat Devranoglu, Ali Kucukgocmen and Humeyra Pamuk ANKARA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday Sweden should not expect Turkey to approve its NATO bid without returning “terrorists”, and Swedish and Finnish delegations should not come to Turkey to convince it to back their membership in the alliance. U.S. President Joe Biden and …

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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that he is in “intense contact” with Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, the United States and the European Union in an effort to restore Ukrainian grain export as a global food crisis worsens. “I am hopeful, but there is still a way to …

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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil may face “political instability” if Brazil’s federal electoral court does not provide more transparency about the voting system ahead of the October election, President Jair Bolsonaro’s son Flavio said on Wednesday. Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, in an interview with TV channel SBT News, said it appeared that the election had …

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