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Germany’s top court limits use of spy software to serious crimes

7 Aug 2025

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s top court ruled on Thursday that law enforcement officials can use secretly installed spy software to monitor phones and computers only in cases that involve serious crimes. German digital rights group Digitalcourage had complained that a 2017 reform allowing police to monitor encrypted chats or messaging services like WhatsApp in certain circumstance …

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Greece may extend North Africa asylum ban if migrant flow resurges

7 Aug 2025

ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece could extend a suspension on examining asylum applications passed by parliament last month if migrant flows from Libya start rising again, Migration Minister Thanos Plevris said on Thursday. In July, the centre-right government stopped processing asylum requests from migrants arriving from North Africa by sea for at least three months in an …

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Three men arrested in Germany in suspected far-right Reichsbuerger plot probe

7 Aug 2025

BERLIN (Reuters) -Three men were arrested in Bavaria on Thursday as part of an investigation into the far-right Reichsbuerger group, suspected of plotting to violently overthrow the last German government and the constitutional order, Munich prosecutors said. The Reichsbuerger (Citizens of the Reich) movement rejects modern German democracy as illegitimate and its followers argue they …

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Trump could meet Putin over Ukraine as soon as next week, official says

7 Aug 2025

By Andrea Shalal, Gleb Bryanski and Mark Trevelyan WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Donald Trump could meet Vladimir Putin as soon as next week, a White House official said on Wednesday, as the U.S. continued preparations to impose secondary sanctions, including potentially on China, to pressure Moscow to end the war in Ukraine. Such a face-to-face meeting …

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Europe’s bond market losing Dutch pension fund buyers as retirement payouts shift

7 Aug 2025

By Yoruk Bahceli LONDON (Reuters) -As if Europe’s cash-hungry finance ministers didn’t have enough to worry about. An overhaul of the Dutch pension system is depriving the euro zone’s $10 trillion government bond market of a key buyer of its long-term debt, just as state funding needs surge. The Dutch private pension sector, the bloc’s …

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EU assessment finds significant obstructive factors undermine humanitarian operations in Gaza

7 Aug 2025

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The humanitarian situation in Gaza continues to be very severe, an EU official told Reuters after the EU’s foreign policy and humanitarian arms updated member countries late on Wednesday on the status of an agreement reached with Israel last month on boosting humanitarian access to Gaza. The official said on Thursday that there …

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France battles largest wildfire in decades, one person killed

7 Aug 2025

By Charlotte Van Campenhout SAINT-LAURENT-DE-LA-CABRERISSE, France (Reuters) -French firefighters were battling on Wednesday to control the country’s biggest wildfire in almost 80 years, with the blaze in the southern Aude region having already swept through an area bigger than Paris. One person died in the village of Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse, about 30 kilometers from the city of …

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July was Earth’s third-hottest on record, included a record for Turkey, EU scientists say

7 Aug 2025

By Charlotte Van Campenhout BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Last month was Earth’s third warmest July since records began and included a record national temperature in Turkey of 50.5 degrees Celsius (122.9 Fahrenheit), scientists said on Thursday. Last month continued a trend of extreme climate conditions that scientists attribute to man-made global warming, even though there was a …

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US to ease human rights criticism of El Salvador, Israel and Russia, Washington Post says

7 Aug 2025

By Kanishka Singh and Costas Pitas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration plans to scale back criticism of El Salvador, Israel and Russia over human rights, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing drafts of the State Department’s annual human rights report. The draft reports related to those countries were significantly shorter than the ones prepared …

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Trump could meet Putin as early as next week, White House official says

6 Aug 2025

By Andrea Shalal and Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump could meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin as early as next week — their first meeting since Trump’s return to office in January — a White House official said on Wednesday. The official said a location for the possible meeting had yet to …

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