(Reuters) -Dozens of commercial vehicles from Amazon and Deutsche Telekom were put on fire in the early hours of Tuesday, German media reported, with police saying they are investigating politically motivated arson attacks. Berlin police said in a statement that 17 vehicles belonging to a telecommunications company were damaged by fire. The fire brigade, which …
By Jan Lopatka (Reuters) -NATO member Slovakia would benefit from neutrality, Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Tuesday, questioning for the first time the central European country’s membership in the alliance that is rushing to bolster its deterrence against Russia. The comment has no near-term practical implications but is the latest in a stream of …
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KANANASKIS, Canada (Reuters) -German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday that the leadership in Tehran has been weakened by Israel’s attacks in the past few days and will likely not return to its former strength. “This regime is very weakened and will probably not return to its former strength, making the future of the country …
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ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece has protested a Turkish maritime spatial plan that designated zones for specific activities in the Aegean Sea of the eastern Mediterranean, accusing Ankara of attempting to claim areas of Greek jurisdiction in a move without legal grounds. The issue could affect relations between the two NATO allies and long-standing foes, who have …
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LISBON (Reuters) -Portuguese police have arrested six people suspected of belonging to a far-right group seeking to create an illegal armed militia, and seized firearms and explosives, police said on Tuesday, adding that those arrested faced terrorism charges. The arrests follow several incidents over the past few months involving other far-right and neo-Nazi groups in …
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(Reuters) -Ukraine’s parliament on Tuesday appointed Ruslan Kravchenko, one of the key investigators of alleged Russian war crimes during the occupation of the Kyiv region in 2022, as prosecutor general. Kravchenko, 35, is now head of the state tax administration, and before that chaired the Kyiv region military administration. He was involved in the recording …
WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland has been observing GPS disruptions over the Baltic Sea, Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Tuesday, adding its sources suggest they were “related to the actions of the Russian Federation, including sabotage actions”. The Russian embassy in Warsaw did not immediately reply to an emailed request for comment. Russia has repeatedly denied …
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VENICE (Reuters) -Scaffolding went up in Venice on Tuesday to restore a mural by the elusive street artist Banksy that had appeared on the side of a 17th century building in the lagoon city six years ago. “Migrant Child” shows a boy wearing a life jacket and holding a pink flare, representing the artist’s support …
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VIENNA (Reuters) -An Israeli military strike on Iran’s nuclear complex at Natanz directly hit the underground uranium enrichment plant there, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday, revising its assessment after initially reporting it had been hit only indirectly. Since Israel’s launched wide-ranging attacks on Iran on Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency has been …
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(Fixes formatting issue in bullet points. No other changes to text.) ROME (Reuters) -An Italian judge has given Gerard Depardieu until October to try to settle a case in which the French actor is accused of assaulting a veteran Italian photographer during an altercation in Rome last year. An initial hearing on Tuesday fixed a …
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