LISBON (Reuters) -Lisbon’s city council has tasked a team of experts with designing a new mechanism to ensure the safety of the Gloria funicular railway that had a deadly crash last week and will remain closed until its revamp, a city official said on Monday. “We must guarantee maximum security,” the council’s Vice President, Filipe …
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(Reuters) -The Czech Republic will expel a Belarusian diplomat it accuses of espionage, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday. The Czech counterintelligence service said that together with Romanian and Hungarian services it had “broken up a Belarusian intelligence network being built in Europe.” Minsk’s relations with many central European countries have become increasingly strained since …
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By Rami Amichay JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a bus stop on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Monday, killing six people in what police described as “a terrorist attack,” one of the deadliest in the city in the past few years. Footage from a dashboard camera at the scene in Ramot …
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BELGRADE (Reuters) -Thousands of students protested in Belgrade on Monday against the use of force by police at a demonstration last week and demanded investigations against officers loyal to populist President Aleksandar Vucic and his ruling party. The demonstration follows a protest in the northern city of Novi Sad on Friday when police used tear …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spain on Monday banned ships and aircraft carrying weapons to Israel from calling at Spanish ports or entering its airspace due to Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, measures the Israeli foreign minister denounced as antisemitic. Spain, which recognised a Palestinian state in May 2024 and has been a vocal critic of Israel’s …
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Estonia summoned Russia’s charge d’affaires in Tallinn on Monday to lodge a protest after a Russian MI-8 helicopter violated Estonian airspace near Vaindloo Island in the Baltic Sea, Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said. “This is the third such incident this year, a serious breach of international law,” he said on X. (Reporting by …
(Reuters) -The EU’s top sanctions official was in Washington with a team of experts on Monday to discuss what would be the first coordinated transatlantic measures against Russia since President Donald Trump returned to office. With Moscow continuing to pound Ukrainian cities more than three weeks after Trump met Russian President Vladimir Putin at a …
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By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) -An alleged animal rights extremist fighting extradition from Britain to the U.S. over bombings linked to animal testing could be at risk of political interference from the Trump administration, his lawyer told a London court on Monday. U.S. citizen Daniel San Diego, 47, is accused in relation to bombings in …
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By Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS (Reuters) -A Paris court ruled on Monday that French far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s appeal trial against an embezzlement conviction that barred her from running in the 2027 election will start on January 13, keeping her presidential hopes alive. The appeal trial is expected to last around five weeks and the …
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Thousands of Romanian teachers marched in the capital Bucharest and classes were suspended across the country at the start of the school year on Monday in protest against the restructuring of schools and an increase in weekly teaching hours. Romania’s broad coalition government is facing a public sector backlash and strong opposition to …
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