GAZA, Dec 3 (Reuters) – With 70,000 dead, countless injured, hundreds of thousands of people homeless and whole districts laid to waste, the task of rebuilding Gaza is almost beyond comprehension. But at a handful of sites where the enclave’s most valuable historical monuments have been severely damaged, workers are already busy with shovels, trying …
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By Charlotte Van Campenhout BRUSSELS, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Former EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and two others have been formally accused of procurement fraud and corruption, conflict of interest and violation of professional secrecy, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office said on Wednesday. The three individuals were detained on Tuesday as part of an …
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By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. envoys on Tuesday yielded no public breakthrough on a potential Ukraine peace deal, with Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov suggesting unsolved “territorial problems” were the main stumbling block. He was referring to Russian claims on all of Ukraine’s eastern region …
HOLZDORF, Germany, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Germany on Wednesday became the first European nation to deploy the Arrow air defence system, built to intercept intermediate-range ballistic missiles such as Russia’s Oreshnik, as it seeks to counter what it sees as a growing threat from Moscow. The system, developed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) in cooperation …
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By Tuvan Gumrukcu ANKARA, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Wednesday said the “very scary” attacks of recent days on Russia-linked tankers in the Black Sea threatened the safety of all in the region and showed the reach of the war in Ukraine was expanding. The strikes within Turkey’s exclusive economic …
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ATHENS, Dec 3 (Reuters) – The crew of the Greek-operated cargo ship Eternity C, which sank in the Red Sea in July after being attacked by Yemen’s Houthis, have been released, an official with the ship’s operator and a maritime security source told Reuters on Wednesday. The crew of the Liberia-flagged Eternity C abandoned the …
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BARCELONA/MADRID, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Spain’s Catalonia region has pledged to curb its wild boar population, including by ramping up culls, after African swine fever was detected in several animals outside Barcelona in the country’s first outbreak since 1994. That has threatened pork exports from Spain, the European Union’s leading producer of the meat, which …
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JERUSALEM, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition skipped a parliamentary vote on Wednesday endorsing U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to end the two-year war in Gaza. The vote, proposed by opposition leader Yair Lapid, was largely symbolic as Netanyahu had already publicly backed the plan after Israel agreed to a …
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KYIV, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he had urged Defence Minister Denys Shmyhal to carry out an urgent renewal of supervisory boards in the defence sector, aiming to restore investors’ confidence after a corruption scandal. Ukraine has been rocked by a corruption scandal over an alleged $100-million kickback scheme …
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WARSAW, Dec 3 (Reuters) – The Polish army will help the nation’s power grid operator to protect critical transformer stations by sharing information and conducting joint training exercises under an agreement signed on Wednesday, amid increased concerns about Russian drone attacks. The agreement signed by the Polish power grid (PSE) and the army chief of …
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