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By Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) -Portugal has breached an international treaty by preventing the public from accessing key information about Europe’s largest lithium mining project during its environmental licensing process, a U.N. committee said on Wednesday. In 2023, Portugal’s environmental agency APA gave its go-ahead, conditional on some remedies, for London-listed Savannah Resources to develop …

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By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) -The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s talks with Iran on how to resume inspections at sites including those Israel and the United States bombed cannot go on for months on end, its chief told Reuters on Wednesday, pushing for a deal as early as this week. The International Atomic Energy Agency has …

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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -A Ukrainian weapons manufacturer will begin production of fuel for long-range missiles in Denmark, the Danish government said on Wednesday, marking the first expansion abroad by a Ukrainian defence company. The Ukrainian company is Fire Point, maker of the Flamingo missiles, which President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has described as his country’s most successful weapon. …

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By Huseyin Hayatsever ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkish authorities ordered more detentions of opposition officials on Wednesday, in a fresh round of legal manoeuvresagainst President Tayyip Erdogan’s opponents that has prompted billions of dollars in foreign reserve sales. The months-long crackdown has swept up hundreds of members of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), including Istanbul Mayor Ekrem …

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By Maha El Dahan DUBAI (Reuters) -The United Arab Emirates warned Israel on Wednesday that annexation in the occupied West Bank would constitute a “red line” for Abu Dhabi that would severely undermine the spirit of the Abraham Accords that normalised UAE-Israeli relations. The comments by the UAE, the most prominent of the three Arab …

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