STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Swedes in a wide area around the capital Stockholm have been told by authorities to save water after an unusually warm summer pushed temperatures across Scandinavia to record levels. Stockholm’s city authorities said high water temperatures in Lake Malaren – a source of drinking water for two million people – had reduced the …
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MILAN (Reuters) -A Milan court freed a city councillor and two other local figures who had been placed under house arrest for alleged fast-tracking of planning permits, as part of investigations that have led to a construction freeze in Italy’s financial capital. According to a closed-door ruling issued late on Thursday and reviewed by Reuters, …
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(Reuters) -A magnitude 6 earthquake struck near the east coast of Russia’s Kamchatka region on Friday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), the GFZ said. (Reporting by Preetika Parashuraman in Bengaluru)
By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) -Oscar-winning Italian director Paolo Sorrentino will be honoured at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival, which kicks off on Friday, alongside star actors Willem Dafoe, Ray Winstone and Stellan Skarsgard. Sorrentino – known for “Il Divo”, “The Hand of God” and “The Great Beauty”, which was recognised as best foreign language …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine struck the Syzran oil refinery in Russia’s Samara region in an overnight attack and also hit a Caspian Sea port and cargo vessel used to transport military supplies from Iran to Russia the previous day, Kyiv said on Friday. The strikes came hours before a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and …
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By Ben Blanchard and Faith Hung TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan’s people should spurn China’s events to commemorate the end of World War Two, including a military parade in Beijing, given Chinese “distortion” of history and threats against the island, Taipei’s top China-policy maker said on Friday. China, which views democratic Taiwan as its own territory, has …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Agency for International Development did not monitor the uses of 5,175 Starlink terminals sent to Ukraine, with nearly half of the operational units ending up in areas fully or partly held by Moscow, according to a report by the agency’s internal watchdog. USAID’s inspector general found that the agency failed to …
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By Alexander Cornwell MAALE ADUMIM, West Bank/TEL AVIV, (Reuters) -Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced that work would start on a long-delayed settlement that would divide the West Bank and cut it off from East Jerusalem, a move his office said would “bury” the idea of a Palestinian state. The Palestinian government, allies and …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Thursday that an Israeli settlement plan is not in line with international law, and she called on Israeli authorities not to move ahead with it. Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has announced that work would start on a long-delayed settlement that would divide …
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LAMPEDUSA, Italy (Reuters) -At least 26 people died in a migrant shipwreck on Wednesday off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa and 60 survivors were brought ashore, the coastguard said, warning more bodies could be missing as search operations continue. The disaster, in this case involving people travelling from Libya, is the latest to befall …
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