(Reuters) – A worker has died in an accident in connection with a lifting operation at Equinor’s refinery at Mongstad, Norway, the company said in a press release on Wednesday. All non-critical activity on the plant has been stopped until further notice and the area has been cordoned off, the company said. The deceased was …
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MILAN (Reuters) -Italy’s privacy watchdog has temporarily suspended the use of facial recognition technology at Milan’s Linate airport pending the conclusion of a long-running data protection investigation, documents showed on Wednesday. Facial recognition screenings at airports have raised global concerns about the potential misuse of passenger data. The privacy watchdog in Italy, known as Garante, …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -The object that hit a house in an eastern Polish village earlier this month was likely a missile fired by a Polish aircraft that was intended to shoot down Russian drones in the NATO-member’s airspace, a government minister said on Wednesday. Polish authorities initially said the home in the village of Wyryki-Wola had …
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ATHENS/CHISINAU (Reuters) -Greece has suspended the extradition to Moldova of business magnate and former politician Vladimir Plahotniuc who is sought by Chisinau over a 2014 mass fraud case, a Moldovan prosecutor and a Greek legal source said on Wednesday. A Greek court had ruled in favor of his extradition on charges related to a fraud case …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Alexander Cornwell and Steven Scheer CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Israeli military said it was opening an additional route for 48 hours that Palestinians could use to leave Gaza City as it stepped up efforts on Wednesday to empty the city of civilians and confront thousands of Hamas combatants. Hundreds of thousands of …
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By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -Doctors Without Borders said on Wednesday it was appalled by the death of one of its nurses, who died on Tuesday from shrapnel wounds caused by an Israeli airstrike near his tent five days earlier. The nurse, Hussein Alnajjar, was a father of three who worked at the international …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – World leaders gather in New York next week for a U.N. General Assembly dominated by U.S. President Donald Trump’s return to the rostrum, war in Gaza and Ukraine, rising Western recognition of Palestinian statehood and nuclear tensions with Iran. “We are gathering in turbulent – even uncharted – …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Wednesday that criticism of Israel was increasingly being used in Germany as a pretext for stoking hatred against Jews. Speaking at an event to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Central Council of Jews, Merz said that antisemitism had “become louder, more open, more brazen, …
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By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) -Detonations of parcels carried by DHL and DPD in Europe in 2024 were organised and supervised by Russian citizens with ties to Russian military intelligence, Lithuania’s general prosecution service and criminal police said on Wednesday. Security officials in Lithuania said last year the four parcels were part of a test …
By John Irish and Parisa Hafezi PARIS/DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranian and European ministers made little progress in talks on Wednesday aimed at preventing international sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear programme being reimposed at the end of this month, two European and one Iranian diplomats said. Britain, France and Germany, the so-called E3, launched a …
