By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) -Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni snubbed a referendum on easing citizenship laws but has emerged stronger from the vote as the leftist opposition failed to mobilise mass opposition to her right-wing government after nearly three years in power. A coalition of political parties, unions and civil society groups had promoted …
(Reuters) -Ukraine’s overnight drone strikes have forced a temporary suspension of flights in all airports serving Moscow and the country’s second-largest city St. Petersburg, but caused no damage, Russian officials reported on Tuesday. Russian air defence units destroyed a total of 102 Ukrainian drones overnight, the Russian defence ministry – which reports only how many …
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(Reuters) -Search and rescue teams have found three people, including two pilots, alive after their small plane made an emergency landing in the forests of Siberia on Tuesday, Russia’s civil aviation authority said. The Antonov An-2 had issued distress calls while flying over the Yakutia region. Authorities initially said five people were aboard the aircraft …
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By Michelle Nichols and Emma Farge UNITED NATIONS/GENEVA(Reuters) -An organization backed by Israel and the United States began distributing food packages in Gaza at the end of May, overseeing a new model of aid distribution which the United Nations rejects as inadequate, dangerous and a violation of impartiality rules. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation was launched …
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By Tom Balmforth CHERNIHIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – When gaunt Ukrainian soldiers dismount from buses as part of prisoner swaps with Russia, Mariia Pylnyk tries to find out anything she can about her missing husband from the freed men, and hopes, just maybe, that he will be among them. Holding up a photograph of Dmytro Pylnyk, …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -The United States and Israel are seeking to turn nuclear talks into a “strategic trap” for Iran, Iranian lawmakers said in a statement on Tuesday, days before a planned sixth round of Iran-U.S. nuclear talks. “The U.S. is not serious in negotiations at all. It has set the goal of talks as imposing …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has been ready to start handing over the corpses of Ukraine’s war dead for several days with refrigerated trucks containing the first bodies parked near the border, but Kyiv is still discussing the details, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. The two sides agreed to repatriate the bodies of soldiers killed in …
BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has told staff at Commerzbank he opposes Italian lender UniCredit’s efforts to build up a stake in the bank, in a letter which Germany’s finance minister said was “an important signal” about the government’s stance. Merz addressed labour representatives at Commerzbank in a letter dated May 26, and posted …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany granted citizenship to a record 291,955 people last year, a 46% increase from 2023, with Syrians making up the largest group, according to data released by the Federal Statistics Office on Tuesday. Reforms in the citizenship law contributed to the jump, the office said. Last June Germany reduced its residency requirement for …
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By Emma Pinedo and Silvio Castellanos MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish women who were forced into rehabilitation centres during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco broke up a Catholic meeting held to offer them a apology and demanded more concrete reparation from the church and state. Protesters – including survivors in their 60s and 70s, activists and relatives …
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