ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece plans to extradite former politician and businessman Vladimir Plahotniuc to Moldova on Thursday to face charges over a $1 billion theft from the banking system, days before the country holds a sensitive election, the Moldovan government and a Greek legal source said. A Greek court in August ruled in favour of the …
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BELFAST (Reuters) -Police in Northern Ireland used journalists’ phone numbers to check for information leaks by officers or staff, but did not carry out “widespread or systemic” improper surveillance, an independent review found on Wednesday. London-based barrister Angus McCullough was asked by chief constable John Boutcher to look at Police Service of Northern Ireland practices …
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Danish fund manager AkademikerPension is excluding Israeli state assets, including government-controlled companies, from its investment portfolio, it said on Wednesday, due to the war in Gaza and the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. It is the latest decision by a European fund manager to curtail investments in Israel, following recent …
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By Joanna Plucinska and James Pearson LONDON (Reuters) -A hack hitting major airports across Europe followed by drone incursions in Copenhagen and Oslo are testing the weak spots of the region’s aviation infrastructure and raising fears about coordinated attacks leading to increased disruption. In Denmark, drones halted flights at Copenhagen’s main airport on Monday for …
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By Emma Pinedo and Andrius Sytas MADRID/VILNIUS (Reuters) -A Spanish military jet with Defence Minister Margarita Robles onboard experienced a GPS disturbance early on Wednesday as it flew near Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave on its way to Lithuania, the ministry said, without providing further details. As well as Robles, the plane was carrying relatives of Spanish …
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DUBLIN (Reuters) -Ireland’s presidential election will in the end be contested by a former minister, a former Gaelic football coach and a left-wing lawmaker after household names such as Conor McGregor, Bob Geldof and Michael Flatley had all expressed interest. After months of online speculation, the mixed martial arts fighter, the singer and the former …
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PARIS (Reuters) -French police arrested more than 100 AS Roma ultras in the centre of Nice on Tuesday evening after intervening to prevent a mass brawl ahead of the Italian club’s Europa League match against Nice, local authorities said. A total of 102 individuals identified as Roma fans were detained after riot police and local …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The front lines in Ukraine have reached an impasse, as parity in equipment, training and morale between Russian and Ukrainian forces stalls momentum on both sides, nationalist Russian senator Dmitry Rogozin said in an interview. “(The map of the front lines) is moving with enormous difficulty, at a colossal price, which our military …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine will soon hash out the legal details of a joint arms production venture with the U.S., Kyiv’s ambassador to Washington said on Wednesday, as part of a critical effort to bolster the Ukrainian defence industry. Officials are hoping to scale up domestic arms production with Western help as the military fends off …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding on Wednesday on the construction of small nuclear power plants in Iran, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom said. The agreement was signed by Rosatom chief Alexei Likhachev and Iran’s top nuclear official, Mohammad Eslami, at a meeting in Moscow. Rosatom described it as a “strategic …
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