MOSCOW, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Russia has blocked access to Snapchat, state-run news agency RIA reported on Thursday, citing the country’s communications regulator, Roskomnadzor. Authorities said one reason for the ban was that Snapchat had allegedly been used “to organise and carry out terrorist acts within the country, and to recruit perpetrators”. Earlier on Thursday, …
MONS, Belgium Dec 4 (Reuters) – NATO will this week integrate its Nordic nations under the U.S.-based Joint Force Command Norfolk in an effort to improve transatlantic security and boost the alliance’s positioning in the high north, NATO’s top commander Alexus Grynkewich told reporters on Thursday. Under the new structure, all Nordic countries would fall …
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By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) – War insurance costs for ships sailing to the Black Sea have spiked again, with insurers reviewing policies daily as the conflict in Ukraine spills into sea lanes, five shipping and insurance sources said on Thursday. The Black Sea is crucial for the shipment of grain, oil and …
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BERLIN, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Germany has deployed five Eurofighter jets and some 150 military personnel to the Polish town of Malbork to help secure the country’s airspace, the German air force said on Thursday, in response to Russian drone incursions in September. Polish F-16 fighter jets, Dutch F-35s, Italian AWACS surveillance planes and NATO …
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ANKARA, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Turkey summoned Ukraine’s ambassador and Russia’s acting charges d’affaires to the foreign ministry to convey its concerns over a series of attacks on Russia-linked vessels inside its exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea, Deputy Foreign Minister Berris Ekinci said on Thursday. “We are witnessing a very serious escalation in …
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PARIS, Dec 4 (Reuters) – The European Union has reached a preliminary deal on how to regulate gene-edited crops in a move that could ease the development of new varieties in a region long wary of biotech innovations in food. The EU has debated for years how to regulate so-called new genomic techniques (NGT), which …
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BRUSSELS, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Former EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has resigned as rector of the College of Europe amid a fraud probe, she said in a statement on Thursday. The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) this week accused Mogherini and two others of procurement fraud and corruption. It has said the investigation …
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LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) – A British inquiry delivered its report into the death of a woman who died in 2018 after being poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok, months after a murder attempt on former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal. Skripal and his daughter Yulia were left critically ill from exposure to Novichok after …
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By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS, Dec 4 (Reuters) – A Lithuanian court found the leader of a junior party in the ruling coalition government on Thursday guilty of incitement to hatred against Jews and belittling the Holocaust in social media posts in 2023. Remigijus Zemaitaitis, founder of the populist Nemunas Dawn, was fined 5,000 euros ($5,835) …
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MADRID, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Spanish police have dismantled a crime ring accused of bringing in hundreds of foreign migrants irregularly to work at farms across eastern Spain in what the Interior Ministry described as inhumane, slave-like conditions. Officers have arrested 11 people and identified more than 300 potential victims, many of them from Nepal, …
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