By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -A British-born Italian boy who died of leukaemia in 2006 will become the first Catholic saint of the millennial generation on Sunday, in a ceremony led by Pope Leo in St. Peter’s Square that is expected to attract tens of thousands of worshippers. Carlo Acutis, who died aged 15, …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -Two incursions of Polish airspace by drones occurred overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, but they were not shot down as they posed no danger, the army said on Thursday. Poland has been on high alert for objects entering its airspace since a stray Ukrainian missile struck a southern Polish village in 2022, killing …
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NICOSIA (Reuters) -European prosecutors are investigating possible criminal offences relating to a 1.9 billion euro ($2 billion) EU-financed project to build a subsea electric cable linking Europe to the eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus’s president and the prosecuting agency said. Greek power grid operator IPTO is building the Great Sea Interconnector cable to link European and Cypriot …
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Some Google services including YouTube temporarily went down on Thursday in Turkey and some parts of Europe including Greece and Germany, according to a Turkish deputy minister, internet monitors and users in the regions. The Freedom of Expression Association, which monitors local censorship on the internet, said the outage on Alphabet’s Google began …
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By Angeliki Koutantou and Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) -Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will announce more than 1.5 billion euros in tax breaks and other handouts this weekend, officials said, as he seeks to halt a slide in popularity caused by a protracted cost of living crisis and corruption claims. The tax deductions, which Mitsotakis will …
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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia on Thursday passed a law allowing faster deportation of non-citizens to third countries, paving the way to send hundreds of refugees denied visas because of criminal convictions to the tiny Pacific island of Nauru. Under a 30-year deal signed with Nauru last Friday, Australia has agreed to pay A$2.5 …
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VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) -The governor of Russia’s far eastern Sakhalin region told Reuters on Thursday that a potential return of U.S. energy major Exxon Mobil would be a boost for the local oil and gas business. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed last month a decree that could allow foreign investors, including top U.S. oil major …
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By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) -France’s far-right National Rally is fine-tuning its candidate list for a possible snap legislative election, seeking to avoid what it called “casting errors” that let several “black sheep” derail its hopes for a majority in last year’s vote. With the government hanging by a thread, the RN is betting President …
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(Reuters) -An earthquake measuring magnitude 5.8 struck Salta in Argentina on Thursday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake hit at a depth of 192 km (119 miles), according to EMSC. (Reporting by Angela Christy in Bengaluru; Editing by Jamie Freed)
By Ju-min Park and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) -After Kim Jong Un met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing, North Korean staffers carefully wiped off items touched by the country’s supreme leader, in what analysts say is part of a suite of security measures to counter foreign spies. Even with the appearance of budding …
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