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Ukraine’s Zelenskiy proposes PM Shmyhal as new defence minister

14 Jul 2025

(Reuters) -Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday proposed current Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal as Ukraine’s new defence minister. “The vast experience of Denys Shmyhal will certainly be valuable in the position of minister of defence of Ukraine. This is precisely the area where the country’s maximum resources, maximum tasks and a great deal of responsibility …

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Gaza documentary shown on BBC breached accuracy guideline, review finds

14 Jul 2025

LONDON (Reuters) -A BBC documentary about children’s lives in Gaza narrated by the 13-year-old son of a deputy agriculture minister in the Hamas-run government breached the British public broadcaster’s editorial guidelines on accuracy, an internal review said on Monday. The BBC’s investigation, however, found there were no other breaches of its editorial guidelines, including on …

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Romanian government survives no confidence vote and pushes tax hikes through

14 Jul 2025

BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Romanian Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan’s three-week old coalition government survived a no confidence vote on Monday, allowing it to push through unpopular tax hikes needed to lower the European Union’s largest budget deficit. The government has fast-tracked through parliament an increase in value-added tax, excise duties and other levies from August to prevent …

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Heatwaves in Spain caused 1,180 deaths in past two months, ministry says

14 Jul 2025

(Amends number of deaths in same period last year to 114 (not 70) in paragraph 5 following revised ministry statement) MADRID (Reuters) -High temperatures caused 1,180 deaths in Spain in the past two months, a sharp increase from the same period last year, the Environment Ministry said on Monday. The vast majority of people who …

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Italian anti-Mafia author weeps in court as mob boss convicted

14 Jul 2025

ROME (Reuters) -Italian anti-Mafia author Roberto Saviano wept in court on Monday as judges upheld a conviction against a notorious mob boss who was found to have threatened him. Francesco Bidognetti, a former leader of the Neapolitan Camorra mafia who was already serving life for a slew of other serious crimes, was sentenced to 18 …

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Greek government seeks parliamentary probe into EU farm fraud, opposition decries cover-up

14 Jul 2025

ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece’s ruling conservatives will ask parliament to investigate a scandal in which Greek farmers for years faked land ownership to receive EU agricultural subsidies, the government said on Monday. The EU in June imposed a 392 million-euro fine on Greece over the misuse of the funds between 2016 and 2023 by government agency …

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Four killed in small plane crash at London Southend Airport

14 Jul 2025

LONDON (Reuters) -Four foreign nationals were killed when a small plane crashed at London Southend Airport on Sunday shortly after takeoff, British police said on Monday. The U.S.-built Beechcraft B200 Super King Air plane had been bound for the Netherlands, when it “got into difficulty and crashed within the airport boundary,” Essex Police Detective Chief …

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Sweden eyes extending military officers’ conscription age to 70

14 Jul 2025

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden should raise former officers’ upper conscription age limit to 70 from 47, a government-appointed review suggested on Monday, as part of the country’s moves to strengthen its defence in the face of a deteriorating security environment. “The Swedish Armed Forces’ need for officers justifies an extended military service duration that should apply, …

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Kosovo tribunal reduces sentence for former KLA member

14 Jul 2025

THE HAGUE (Reuters) -Appeals judges at the Kosovo tribunal in The Hague confirmed the conviction of former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) member Pjeter Shala for war crimes, but reduced his sentence to 13 years in prison, the court said on Monday.     Shala was initially convicted in 2024 of war crimes including torture, murder and arbitrary detention, …

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