By Emilie Madi and Maya Gebeily RIYAK, Lebanon (Reuters) -Elias Maalouf crouched to examine a shrivelling grapevine in his ancestral vineyard in the sun-kissed plains of eastern Lebanon. Last year, Israeli air strikes kept him from picking most of the grapes. Now, a drought has slashed his harvest. “Whether it’s a political war or a …
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By Andreas Rinke CHISINAU (Reuters) -The French, German and Polish leaders promised support and the prospect of joining the European Union on an Independence Day visit to Moldova, where President Maia Sandu’s pro-European allies face a stiff challenge in an election next month. Standing alongside Sandu in her Soviet-era office building on Wednesday, Emmanuel Macron, …
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Bipedal locomotion – walking upright on two legs – is a fundamental trait underpinning humankind’s success. Scientists now have identified two innovations that occurred long ago in the human evolutionary lineage that reshaped the pelvis and helped facilitate this defining characteristic. The researchers examined the genetic basis for bipedalism, an …
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LONDON (Reuters) -HSBC customers in Britain were able to access mobile and online banking services on Wednesday afternoon after an outage temporarily prevented access to accounts, prompting an apology from the bank. Thousands of HSBC customers started reporting problems around 1000 GMT, according to outages tracking website Downdetector. By 1505 GMT, HSBC UK’s service page …
PARIS (Reuters) -Officials have fished the body of a man out of the River Seine near the area on the outskirts of Paris where four other bodies were found earlier this month, the local prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday. The office said that no link had yet been established between the newly found body and …
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By John Irish and Parisa Hafezi PARIS/DUBAI (Reuters) -Britain, France and Germany are likely to begin the process of reimposing U.N. sanctions on Iran on Thursday, but hope Tehran will provide commitments over its nuclear programme within 30 days that will convince them to defer concrete action, four diplomats said. The trio, known as the …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine criticised Russia on Wednesday for setting out plans to withdraw from the Council of Europe’s treaty for the prevention of torture, saying the proposal was a tacit admission of guilt by Moscow. Ukrainian officials have accused Russia of war crimes and torturing civilians and prisoners of war since Russia’s full-scale invasion in …
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By Sarah Marsh and Markus Wacket BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s cabinet passed a draft bill on Wednesday that would introduce a voluntary military service as the country seeks to bolster national defences over Russian security concerns. The text also opened the door to a reintroduction of compulsory enlistment. The defence ministry hopes the voluntary six-month scheme …
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By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Denmark publicly apologised on Wednesday to Greenlandic women who were victims of a decades-long involuntary birth control campaign, amid efforts by Copenhagen to repair relations with the island and fend off U.S. interest in taking it over. The birth control campaign came to light in 2022 when records showed that …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland will “radically increase” wind power capacity despite last week’s decision by President Karol Nawrocki to veto a bill aimed at easing rules for building onshore wind farms, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday. The vetoed bill would have cut the distance required between planned installations and residential locations. “We will radically …
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