BUDAPEST, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Hungary’s government spokesman denied a media report on Thursday that Prime Minister Viktor Orban was about to introduce a “presidential system”. He made his comment on X after Bloomberg reported that nationalist Orban, who faces an election that is likely to be held in April 2026, was exploring this option. …
(Corrects Plakolm’s first name and title, paragraph 6) By Francois Murphy VIENNA, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Austria’s lower house of parliament on Thursday passed a ban on Muslim headscarves in schools for girls under 14 despite uncertainty over whether the legislation will be ruled unconstitutional as a previous ban was five years ago. The ban, …
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By Gleb Bryanski and Elena Fabrichnaya MOSCOW, Dec 11 (Reuters) – The European Commission has proposed an unprecedented use of about 210 billion euros of frozen Russian sovereign assets to finance Ukraine. Russia, which does not hold significant sovereign assets of any EU nation except for diplomatic real estate, has said such a move would …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ramadan Abed CAIRO/GAZA, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Torrential rain swept across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, flooding hundreds of tents sheltering families displaced by two years of war, and leading to the death of a baby girl due to exposure, local health officials said. Medics said eight-month-old Rahaf Abu Jazar died …
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By Anna Koper, Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk and Justyna Pawlak WARSAW, Dec 11 (Reuters) – The policies of U.S. President Donald Trump should push Europe towards deeper integration and to strengthen itself militarily, Polish Justice Minister Waldemar Zurek said on Thursday. Zurek, a former judge, was appointed by pro-European Prime Minister Donald Tusk in July to lead …
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By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS, Dec 11 (Reuters) – An unprecedented number of bird flu outbreaks among wild birds and their wide geographic spread are driving an early and strong wave of the disease in Europe this year, the European Food Safety Authority said on Thursday. Highly pathogenic avian influenza has led to the …
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KYIV, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Ukrainian aerial drones struck a Russian oil platform in the Caspian Sea for the first time on Thursday, halting production at the facility owned by Lukoil, according to an official from Ukraine’s Security Service. The attack on the Filanovsky rig – part of Russia’s largest Caspian oil field – is …
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Dec 11 (Reuters) – Ukraine had handed the U.S. a revised 20-point peace plan to end the war with Russia, ABC News reported on Thursday, citing a Ukrainian official. The revised plan contains “some new ideas” regarding territories and control over the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the report says. (Reporting by Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru; …
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By Jonathan Landay and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (Reuters) – In the past week, President Donald Trump and senior Republican lawmakers have presented starkly different views of a top U.S. national security challenge: Russia, its war in Ukraine and the threat it poses to Europe and the United States. On Friday, Trump released a …
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BUDAPEST, Dec 11 (Reuters) – The new National Security Strategy of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration shows that America understands Europe’s “civilisational-scale decline”, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban wrote on X on Thursday. In a sweeping strategy document published last week, Trump said the United States could reassess its relationship with Europe, and that the …
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