BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen defended her record on Monday as the European Union’s executive body faced a censure motion proposed by a group of mainly far-right lawmakers in the European Parliament. The vote on the motion, scheduled for Thursday, is destined to fall far short of the two-thirds majority needed …
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) -The top United Nations court will on July 23 issue a nonbinding opinion on countries’ legal obligation to fight climate change, a decision expected to be cited in climate change-driven litigation around the world, the court said on Monday. The so-called advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, also known as …
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DONETSK, RUSSIAN-CONTROLLED UKRAINE (Reuters) -Tamara Pozdnyakova woke up on June 30 in her apartment in Donetsk to a flurry of missed calls. Did she know that the shopping centre, home to her clothing store, had been hit by missile strikes, her friends asked. By the time Pozdnyakova rushed over, fire had consumed the entire market. …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -Israel’s refusal to allow the free and safe entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza remains the main obstacle to progress in the ceasefire talks being held in Qatar, Palestinian sources told Reuters on Monday. The two sources said mediators hosted one indirect round of ceasefire talks between Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israeli …
(Corrects to granddaughter, not daughter, in paragraph 16) By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA/GAZA (Reuters) -In a ward of Nasser hospital in southern Gaza a woman is comforting her crying, 16-month-old granddaughter, one of those affected by what aid workers say is a surge of meningitis cases among the Palestinian territory’s children. “Sham’s temperature suddenly spiked …
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Romania’s two-week-old broad coalition government is set to face a no-confidence vote as it seeks to speed through planned tax hikes that have triggered street protests even though they are needed to avert a ratings downgrade to below investment grade. Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan sought on Monday to fast-track parliamentary approval of the …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The former deputy chief of the Russian army’s General Staff was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Monday over a scheme involving the theft of over 1 billion roubles ($12.7 million) from Defence Ministry contracts, the TASS news agency reported. A closed-door military court found Khalil Arslanov, a colonel general, and others …
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By Dan Peleschuk KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russia struck two military recruitment centres in separate drone attacks on Monday, Ukraine’s military said, doubling down on a new campaign of strikes Kyiv says is aimed at disrupting military recruitment. Monday’s attacks damaged draft offices in the regional capitals of Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia and came a day after a …
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(Reuters) -Two spectators were flown to hospital by rescue helicopter at the German Track Cycling Championships on Sunday after two riders went over the barriers at high speed and crashed into the crowd, organisers said. The incident, which occurred during the elite keirin semi-finals, left seven spectators injured and led to the remainder of the …
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By Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM party said a delegation had met President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday to discuss the disarmament process of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants and had conveyed its recommendations on the next potential steps. The meeting, which lasted around one hour at the presidency in Ankara, came amid Turkish …
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