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As blazes spread, French winemakers rue loss of ‘fire break’ vineyards

7 Aug 2025 7 Aug 2025

By Gus Trompiz PARIS (Reuters) -In southern France’s sun-seared Aude region, farmers have been reluctantly digging up vines, spurred on by declining wine consumption and state subsidies, removing a natural, moisture-filled brake against wildfires. The loss of vineyards – nearly 5,000 hectares in Aude in the past 12 months alone – and its impact have …

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Eyal Zamir, the Israeli general at odds with Netanyahu

7 Aug 2025 7 Aug 2025

By Charlotte Greenfield and Alexander Cornwell JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Eyal Zamir, the Israeli armed forces chief of staff arguing against a full takeover of Gaza, is the latest in a long line of generals to tussle with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Zamir fears endangering the lives of remaining hostages and miring an exhausted military in Gaza, …

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Director Francis Ford Coppola discharged from Rome hospital, is ‘fine’, source says

7 Aug 2025 7 Aug 2025

ROME (Reuters) -Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola has been discharged from the hospital in Rome where he was admitted two days ago, and is “feeling good”, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The acclaimed American director of the Godfather movies and Apocalypse Now, who is 86, had been admitted to the Policlinico …

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Cargo of cocaine in animal skins leads to Portuguese police captain

7 Aug 2025 7 Aug 2025

LISBON (Reuters) -Portuguese authorities have arrested a police captain and an accomplice suspected of running a drug operation that imported at least three containers of animal skins with 1.5 metric tons of cocaine hidden between the putrid layers of untanned skins. A spokesperson at the Judicial Police for the Northern Region said on Thursday the …

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Instant View: Divided Bank of England cuts rates, pound jumps

7 Aug 2025 7 Aug 2025

LONDON (Reuters) -The Bank of England (BoE) on Thursday lowered UK interest rates by a quarter point, marking its fifth cut in 12 months, although nearly half of its policymakers voted to keep borrowing costs unchanged, giving the pound a boost. Difficulty reaching an agreement meant the Monetary Policy Committee had to hold two rate …

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Paris office of Israeli airline El Al vandalised

7 Aug 2025 7 Aug 2025

PARIS (Reuters) -Suspected vandals daubed the front of the Paris office of Israeli national airline El Al in red paint, drawing condemnation from French Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot on Thursday. “Free Palestine” and other slogans were scrawled in red on the El Al entrance. “Acts of hatred and anti-Semitism have no place in our Republic,” …

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Fire at Russia’s Afipsky oil refinery extinguished after drone attack

7 Aug 2025 7 Aug 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) -A fire at the Afipsky oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar region, caused by fallen drone debris, was extinguished, local emergency services said on Thursday. The Russian Defence Ministry said air defence systems had shot down nine Ukrainian drones over the region overnight. The Ukrainian military confirmed that its drone units had hit the …

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Senior EU official says Gaza crisis ‘looks very much’ like genocide

7 Aug 2025 7 Aug 2025

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -A senior member of the European Union’s executive said the displacement and killing in Gaza looked very much like genocide, the first commissioner to level that accusation and publicly break with the body’s position on the conflict. “If it is not genocide, it looks very much like the definition used to express its …

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Kremlin says Putin and Trump will meet in coming days

7 Aug 2025 7 Aug 2025

By Gleb Bryanski and Mark Trevelyan MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump will meet in the coming days, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said on Thursday, in what would be the first summit between leaders of the two countries since 2021. The announcement came a day after Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, …

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Russia says Dodik court ruling threatens Bosnia’s unity

7 Aug 2025 7 Aug 2025

By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) -Russia on Thursday said that a Bosnian court ruling banning the separatist Bosnian Serb president from political office for defying orders from the international peace envoy has put Bosnia and Herzegovina’s existence as a united country at risk. Bosnia’s election commission on Wednesday decided to remove Milorad Dodik from office …

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