DUBAI, Dec 8 (Reuters) – The trial of a dual national holding European citizenship has begun in Iran, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Monday, saying they were indicted for “intelligence cooperation and espionage in favour of the Zionist regime (Israel).” According to the Alborz provincial attorney general, the defendant – whose identity has …
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By Sara Rossi MILAN, Dec 7 (Reuters) – La Scala opens its new season on Sunday with Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, an opera promoting women’s rights that was once banned in Russia. The Milan opera house is staging the work in a tribute to Shostakovich 50 years after his …
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PARIS, Dec 8 (Reuters) – French socialist Party’s leader Olivier Faure said on Monday his party will vote the social security budget’s bill in parliament. (Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta, editing by Inti Landauro)
Dec 8 (Reuters) – At least seven people were injured when Russian drones struck an apartment block in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Okhtyrka in the Sumy region, Governor Oleh Hryhorov said on Monday. The Sumy region, which borders Russia, has faced near-daily shelling and drone attacks since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine …
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By Krisztina Fenyo BUDAPEST, Dec 6 (Reuters) – Janos Bocs, a Hungarian metalworker, wears only his protective work apron as he poses for a camera, showing his tattoos and beer belly, his long hair blown by an industrial fan that is usually used to cool down metal objects. Bocs, 42, is modelling for an annual charity …
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By Luiza Ilie BUCHAREST, Dec 7 (Reuters) – Bucharest elected a liberal mayor in Sunday’s local election, partial results showed, giving Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan the upper hand in a fragile pro-European ruling coalition and handing a defeat to a hard-right contender tipped to win. The influential post has been vacant since May when centrist …
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Dec 7 (Reuters) – Russia’s air defences destroyed 77 Ukrainian drones launched overnight, Russia’s defence ministry said on Sunday, as both sides continue cross-border air attacks in the nearly four-year-old war. The drones were downed over seven regions in southern and central Russia and over Russian-annexed Crimea, the ministry said in a statement on the …
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RAMALLAH, Dec 7 (Reuters) – Israeli soldiers shot at three Palestinians who were throwing rocks at cars in the occupied West Bank on Sunday and killed one of them, the Israeli military said. The Palestinian Red Crescent said one person had been killed and one wounded in the incident. There was no immediate comment from …
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ROME, Dec 7 (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni spoke by phone on Sunday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy ahead of his planned visits to London, Brussels and Rome for talks on the peace process, her office said. U.S. President Donald Trump’s outgoing Ukraine envoy said earlier that a deal to end the war …
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By Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly MOSCOW, Dec 7 (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Sunday welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump’s new national security strategy and said it largely accorded with Russia’s own perceptions, the first time that Moscow has so fulsomely praised such a document from its former Cold War foe. The U.S. National Security …
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