By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) -Austria’s conservative-led government said on Thursday it had carried out its first deportation of a Syrian back to their home country in almost 15 years, making it the first European Union country to do so since the outbreak of Syria’s civil war. The unnamed Syrian man had been convicted of …
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By Renee Maltezou IERAPETRA, Crete (Reuters) -Firefighters battled a blaze Thursday on the island of Crete that scorched forests and olive groves and forced over 1,000 to evacuate, while a fresh conflagration near Athens threatened homes, highlighting Greece’s vulnerability to wildfire risks. Gale-force winds and aridity made for tinderbox conditions, hampering Greek authorities’ efforts’ to …
BUCHAREST (Reuters) -A motorcyclist was mauled to death by a bear on a road in the Carpathian Mountains in Romania on Thursday, emergency service officials said, the latest attack in the country with the European Union’s largest population of brown bears. Romania has a brown bear population of 10,000 to 13,000, preliminary results of a …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran remains committed to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and its safeguards agreement, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Thursday, a day after Tehran enacted a law suspending cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog. “Our cooperation with the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) will be channeled through Iran’s Supreme National Security Council for obvious …
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LISBON (Reuters) -Portuguese former Prime Minister Jose Socrates appeared before a court on Thursday on the first day of a long-delayed trial in which he faces charges of corruption that were reinstated after a judge had lifted them four years ago. Socrates, 67, who denies wrongdoing, and his lawyer wanted the trial suspended and the …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he was going to speak to U.S. President Donald Trump later in the day. It will be the sixth publicly known conversation between the two leaders since Trump returned to the White House in January and comes amid so far unsuccessful U.S. efforts to broker a …
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -If the United States were to not give Ukraine the military support it needs, it would be a serious setback for Ukraine, the EU and NATO, Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Thursday. U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy are expected to discuss the abrupt halt in some key …
KYIV (Reuters) -A Russian airstrike on key Ukrainian export infrastructure in the southern Black Sea port city of Odesa killed two people and wounded six more, including two foreigners, Ukrainian officials said on Thursday. About 90% of all Ukrainian exports are shipped to foreign markets through the ports of the Odesa seaport hub, including millions …
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By Lucy Papachristou (Reuters) -Deputy head of the Russian Navy Major General Mikhail Gudkov, who had led a brigade fighting against Ukraine, was killed in a Ukrainian attack on Russia’s southern Kursk region, the Russian Defence Ministry confirmed on Thursday. At least 10 other senior Russian commanders have been killed in action or assassinated by …
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BELGRADE (Reuters) -Serbian police detained 79 protesters late on Wednesday in a crackdown on street demonstrators calling for a snap election and an end of the 12-year rule of the President Aleksandar Vucic and his Serbian Progressive Party. Police and protesters clashed in the capital Belgrade and the cities of Novi Sad, Nis and Novi …
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