ROME (Reuters) -Workers broke through a final, thin veil of rock on Thursday, opening an underground tunnel between Austria and Italy that will eventually become a high-speed rail line linking the north and south of Europe. The Brenner Base Tunnel, which is being billed as the world’s longest underground rail connection, is a centrepiece of …
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By Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius said on Thursday he plans to convene talks with defence ministers next week on creating a “drone wall” along the EU’s eastern border – a project infused with urgency by a Russian drone incursion into Poland. Kubilius told Reuters that some European Union countries had …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -The second most senior person in Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative party has floated the idea of freezing funding to Germany’s public broadcasters after the airtime of a right-leaning journalist and commentator was cut. The case of Julia Ruhs, 31, moderator of Klar, a new magazine show that tackles right-wing touchstone topics such as immigration …
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KYIV/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Ukraine said on Thursday that its drones had struck a major oil processing and petrochemical complex and an oil refinery in Russia, part of an intensifying campaign to disrupt Moscow’s oil and gas sector. Ukraine, which has become increasingly frustrated with the pace and direction of peace talks with Russia, has stepped …
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) -A United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded this week that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. Israel dismissed the findings as biased and based on unverified evidence. Below is an explanation of how genocide is defined legally, how it is tried by the courts, and how the U.N. inquiry reached its findings. …
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(This story has been corrected to change the number of people who voted against to 133 from 132, in paragraph 3) SOFIA (Reuters) – The Bulgarian government led by Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov survived a vote of no confidence on Thursday, BTA news agency reported. The vote was called over what the opposition said was …
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By Holger Hansen BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s parliament approved on Thursday the nation’s first annual budget since sweeping reforms to loosen fiscal rules were passed earlier this year, securing record investments to revive the economy while committing to an increase in defence spending. The 2025 budget allows for total investment of almost 116 billion euros …
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By Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) -The United States is committed to deepening military cooperation with Finland, Finnish Defence Minister Antti Hakkanen said on Thursday, despite U.S. plans to scale back its operations elsewhere on NATO’s eastern flank in Europe. Finland, which joined NATO in 2023 in response to Russia’s 2022 invasion of its other neighbour Ukraine, …
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By Joan Faus BARCELONA (Reuters) -Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is edging towards completion, with the team behind it hopeful they can put the finishing touches to the modernist basilica in around 10 years, more than a century after the famed architect’s death. The project’s chairman, Esteve Camps, told reporters on Thursday he had …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian troops are carrying out a counteroffensive against Russian forces on the eastern front, where Kyiv has reclaimed seven settlements, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday after visiting the Donetsk region. “In fact, our forces are depriving the occupier (Russia) of the opportunity to carry out a full-fledged offensive operation, which they had …
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