By Lili Bayer and Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) -NATO leaders are expected to endorse a big new defence spending target at an alliance summit in The Hague on Wednesday, as demanded by U.S. President Donald Trump. Here are some key questions and answers about the new target. WHAT ARE NATO LEADERS EXPECTED TO APPROVE? They …
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MADRID (Reuters) -Spain’s High Court on Wednesday upheld a verdict that found former soccer federation president Luis Rubiales guilty of sexual assault for an unsolicited kiss on the lips of national team player Jenni Hermoso at the 2023 World Cup in Sydney. The court rejected multiple appeals against the conviction, reaffirming Rubiales kissed Hermoso without …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -Polish President Andrzej Duda, whose term ends in August, said on Wednesday the government was trying to force him to sign a bill to make it easier to build wind farms by including a last-minute amendment in legislation to freeze power prices. Boosting renewable power production has been an election pledge of the …
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) -France will finalise its own analysis on damage to Iran’s nuclear facilities in the next few days and will then compare results with allies, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday, after U.S. and Israeli strikes. Speaking to reporters after a NATO summit in The Hague, Macron said he would meet the …
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HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finnish Defence Minister Antti Hakkanen hailed plans on Wednesday for six NATO member states including Britain and France to participate in land forces that are to be established in northern Finland. Finland, which has a longer border with Russia than any other NATO state, has strengthened the frontier in the two years since it …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -A South Korean court rejected on Wednesday a request to issue an arrest warrant for former President Yoon Suk Yeol related to an investigation into his short-lived attempt to impose martial law, his lawyers said. South Korea’s special prosecutor had asked the court on Tuesday to issue an arrest warrant for Yoon as …
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MADRID (Reuters) -Spain will meet the new capabilities targets agreed by NATO members in Wednesday’s summit in The Hague but it considers its current defence spending of 2% of gross domestic product as “sufficient, realistic and compatible with the welfare state”, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said after the meeting. Sanchez last week asked to …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Commission on Wednesday put forward the EU Space Act, a long-awaited overhaul of regulations affecting its fast-growing space industry. The legislation aims to create a single market for firms offering space services in the bloc while boosting efforts to be more competitive with the United States and other commercial space powers. …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The United States and Iran disagree when it comes to how much damage U.S. air strikes caused to Iranian nuclear facilities, Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said on Wednesday. Ushakov said Moscow welcomed the ceasefire between Iran and Israel and hoped it lasted and noted what he said were differing assessments of …
By Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) -Iberia’s blackout in April showed that European grids must modernise to cope with more renewable power generation, and Portugal wants the EU to help finance these investments, its energy minister told Reuters on Wednesday. Energy minister Maria da Graca Carvalho said that unlike in the past, when thermal power plants …
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