ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama presented a gift of a scarf to his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni and serenaded her as she celebrated her 48th birthday on Wednesday. Rama, who is much taller than Meloni, went down on one knee to hand over the present and sang “tanti auguri” (happy birthday) …
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By Padraic Halpin and Conor Humphries DUBLIN (Reuters) -Talks between Ireland’s two historically dominant centre-right parties and independent lawmakers have reached an agreement that will give a new coalition government a “comfortable majority,” a negotiator for one of the parties said on Wednesday. Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, who led the outgoing coalition, have been …
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany has sufficient gas in storage to cover demand over the current 2024/25 winter season, despite the end of Russian gas exports to central Europe on Jan. 1, storage operators’ group INES said on Thursday. “Despite the complete loss of gas transport through Ukraine, a gas shortage is no longer expected,” INES …
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By Federico Maccioni ABU DHABI (Reuters) -Italy, Albania and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed on Wednesday a deal worth at least 1 billion euros ($1 billion) to build a subsea interconnection to import renewable energy across the Adriatic Sea. The plan will strengthen the existing power interconnections “stretching 430 km along the Adriatic seabed, …
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(Reuters) – Voters in Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, go to the polls on Feb. 23 in what marks the first elections since Berlin severed its ties with Russia, its decades-long gas supplier. Here is how major parties outline their energy policies: CDU/CSU The conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), who run with Bavarian sister party CSU in …
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden is preparing to change the constitution to be able to take away the passports of people who obtained citizenship by fraudulent means, or who are a threat to the state, the government said on Wednesday. People with dual nationality who received citizenship by providing false information, bribery or threats, as well …
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ROME (Reuters) – Italy summoned Venezuela’s chief diplomat in Rome on Wednesday to protest over a lack of information on the fate of an Italian national arrested in the Latin American country two months ago, the foreign ministry said. NGO worker Alberto Trentini, 45, was arrested in Venezuela in November but no formal charges have …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Aena, the operator of all Spanish commercial airports, intends to make its terminals in the country carbon neutral in 2026, Chief Executive Maurici Lucena said on Wednesday. The company is investing 750 million euros ($773 million) in the process, he said during an event held in Madrid. He was referring to the …
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By Elisa Martinuzzi LONDON (Reuters) – Armed conflict is the top risk in 2025, a World Economic Forum (WEF) survey released on Wednesday showed, a reminder of the deepening global fragmentation as government and business leaders attend an annual gathering in Davos next week. Nearly one in four of the more than 900 experts surveyed …
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(Reuters) -Qatari mediators have sent Israel and Hamas a draft proposal for an agreement to halt the fighting in the Gaza Strip and exchange hostages for Palestinian prisoners as a first step towards an end to the 15-month-old war. A week before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes over from President Joe Biden, officials said a …
