BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union aims to stockpile critical medical equipment and vaccines in case of future health crises and to set up a network to ease coordination among EU countries, European crisis chief Hadja Lahbib said on Wednesday. The 27-country bloc is scarred by the memory of the COVID-19 pandemic when it faced a …
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VIENNA (Reuters) -Austria’s lower house of parliament passed a bill on Wednesday to allow the monitoring of suspects’ secure messages, in limited cases, which security officials have said would close what is a dangerous policing blind spot. Because Austria lacks a legal framework for monitoring messaging services like WhatsApp and Signal, its main domestic intelligence …
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MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez unveiled a plan to root out corruption on Wednesday, seeking to maintain parliamentary support for his government after senior members of his governing Socialist Party were accused of taking bribes. A Supreme Court judge last month ordered the pre-trial detention of Santos Cerdan, the former number three in …
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MADRID (Reuters) – A Spanish court on Wednesday handed Brazil coach Carlo Ancelotti a one-year prison sentence for failing to pay tax on his image rights revenues in 2014 when the Italian was Real Madrid manager, according to a statement. Ancelotti, who managed Real Madrid from 2013 to 2015 and between 2021 and 2025, was …
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By Jonathan Saul and Renee Maltezou LONDON/ATHENS (Reuters) -Greek shipping companies calling at Russian ports are boosting their vessels’ defences after a series of mysterious blasts in recent months have damaged tankers linked to Moscow’s oil trade according to six Greek shipping and security sources. The measures include underwater inspections by divers to check for …
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By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Leo told visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday that the Vatican was willing to host Russia-Ukraine peace talks. The pope, meeting the Ukrainian leader for the second time in his two-month-old papacy, also discussed “the urgent need for a just and lasting peace”, the Vatican said in …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Scottish police said on Wednesday they were preparing for a possible visit to the country by U.S. President Donald Trump this month, which would mark his first visit to Britain since the U.S. election last year. Trump owns two golf courses in the country, one on the northeast coast and another south of …
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MADRID (Reuters) -Spain’s High Court charged eight individuals on Wednesday with the attempted assassination of former right wing politician Alejo Vidal-Quadras over his ties to an Iranian opposition group and support for dissident groups. Vidal-Quadras, 80, a founder of Spain’s far-right Vox party, was shot in the face by a motorbike pillion passenger as he …
By Lefteris Papadimas ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece will stop processing asylum applications of people coming from North Africa, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday, amid a surge in migrant arrivals. The announcement came a day after EU’s migration commissioner and ministers from Italy, Malta and Greece were denied entry to the eastern part of divided …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Friedrich Merz expects his government to take decisions on a possible reform of Germany’s strict debt rules by the spring of next year, he said on Wednesday. Merz told the Bundestag lower house of parliament that his conservatives had agreed with his Social Democrat coalition partners that a commission on the …
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