By Katy Daigle and Simon Jessop NEW YORK (Reuters) -The development bank for Latin America and the Caribbean will channel $5 billion in the next five years toward projects that help children, part of a wider U.N. campaign to ensure that financial investments do not harm the world’s youth. The commitment marks the most ambitious …
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By Jeff Horwitz (Reuters) -Numerous safety features that Meta has said it has implemented to protect young users on Instagram over the years do not work well or, in some cases, don’t exist, according to a report from child-safety advocacy groups that was corroborated by researchers at Northeastern University. The study, which Meta disputed as …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -There is little to indicate that the Teufelsberg, or Devil’s Mountain, a thickly forested clump rising above western Berlin, is a pile of wartime rubble built on the entombed remains of a Nazi military college. The mound, just 80 metres high, soars over Germany’s flat capital, offering views far around, such as of …
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By Alvise Armellini and Anna Uras ROME (Reuters) -Italy and Spain have deployed naval ships to assist an international aid flotilla that has come under drone attack while trying to deliver aid to Gaza, potentially ratcheting up tensions with Israel, which strongly opposes the initiative. The Global Sumud Flotilla is using about 50 civilian boats …
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By Dominique Vidalon and Geert De Clercq PARIS (Reuters) -Carla Bruni, the former top model and singer-songwriter wife of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, stood by her man on Thursday after he was sentenced to five years in jail for criminal conspiracy over dealings with Libya. “Love is the answer,” Bruni wrote on social platform …
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(This story has been refiled to remove a picture) By John Irish UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Norway and Denmark are in close contact over separate drone incidents that halted airports in Oslo and Copenhagen, but as of yet their investigations have not yet established a connection, Norway’s foreign minister said on Wednesday. Sightings of two or …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland has banned pro-Russian Moldovan politician Irina Vlah from its territory for five years, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, accusing her of helping Moscow interfere in Moldova’s parliamentary elections. Moldova holds a high-stakes parliamentary election on Sunday that could determine the fate of its bid to join the European Union, amid what …
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ROME (Reuters) -Italy’s navy will assist the Gaza international aid flotilla with just one ship and not two as was previously understood, the defence ministry said on Thursday, adding that the vessel would not have any escort duties. The ministry said a frigate that was dispatched on Wednesday hours after the convoy known as the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NATO’s Secretary General Mark Rutte on Thursday backed U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments this week that NATO member countries should shoot down Russian drones and airplanes if they enter their airspace, if such a move was necessary. “If so necessary. So I totally agree here with President Trump: if so necessary,” Rutte said …
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By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) -Moldova holds a high-stakes parliamentary election on Sunday that could determine the fate of its bid to join the European Union, amid what officials have described as a subversive Russian campaign to sway the vote and sabotage the effort. The country of 2.4 million people has faced multiple crises since …
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