By Inti Landauro and Charlotte Van Campenhout PARIS, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Staff at France’s Louvre Museum plan to strike from December 15 over pay and conditions, the stoppage adding to a catalogue of recent woes – including a spectacular jewel heist and a water leak that damaged ancient books – that have put the …
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By Renee Maltezou and Angeliki Koutantou ATHENS, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Protesting Greek farmers closed an airport on the island of Crete, blocked roads and border crossings and hurled rocks at police during a nationwide demonstration on Monday triggered by funding delays. Protesters deployed thousands of trucks and tractors in at least 20 blockades across …
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By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Three Russian soldiers were sentenced to up to 12 years in prison on Monday for torturing and killing Russell Bentley, a 63-year-old U.S. national who had volunteered to fight for Russia against Ukraine. Bentley went missing in April last year near Russian-controlled Donetsk after his wife said …
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By Julia Payne BRUSSELS, Dec 8 (Reuters) – EU countries on Monday agreed their final negotiating positions for several proposed migration laws on new asylum rules, a common EU list of “safe countries of origin” and an EU-wide policy for illegal migrant returns, statements from the Council of the European Union said. Despite strong criticism …
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By Sarah Marsh BERLIN, Dec 8 (Reuters) – There is no need for a rupture between Europe and the U.S. over Washington’s new Security Strategy warning of “civilizational erasure” in the Old World, Germany’s spy chief said on Monday. In the new document, unveiled late last week, the Trump administration upends postwar assumptions about Europe’s …
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OSLO, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Norwegian police said on Monday they had arrested a suspected shooter after receiving reports of gunfire at Oslo’s largest shopping centre. Police said in a statement that no injured people had been found and that it was safe to reopen the centre again, after it was earlier evacuated. “As of …
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By Emma Farge and Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Dec 8 (Reuters) – The United Nations appealed on Monday for a 2026 aid budget only half the size of what it had hoped for this year, acknowledging a plunge in donor funding at a time when humanitarian needs have never been greater. By its own admission, …
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By Lili Bayer, John Irish and Maya Gebeily BRUSSELS, Dec 8 (Reuters) – The European Union is studying options for strengthening Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces to help free up the Lebanese army to focus on disarming the armed group Hezbollah, according to a document seen by Reuters on Monday. A 2024 truce between Lebanon and …
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Dec 8 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said negotiators remain split over territorial concessions in a U.S.-brokered peace plan, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing a phone interview with Zelenskiy. Elements of the U.S. proposal require further discussion on “sensitive issues,” including security guarantees for Ukraine and control of its eastern territories, according to …
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KYIV, Dec 7 (Reuters) – Talks with U.S. representatives on a peace plan for Ukraine have been constructive but not easy, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday ahead of his planned consultations with European leaders in coming days. Zelenskiy held a call on Saturday with U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and …
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