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Foot-and-mouth disease contained in Hungary, farm minister says

6 Jun 2025

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary has successfully contained an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, leading to the lifting of European Union restrictions, the country’s farm minister Istvan Nagy told local news site Index.hu in an interview published on Friday. Hungary reported its first case of foot-and-mouth disease for over 50 years in March, leading to infections in …

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EU reimposes pre-war agri duties on Ukraine, seeks compromise in new deal

6 Jun 2025

By Kate Abnett and Pavel Polityuk BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union reimposed duties and quotas on Ukrainian agricultural products from Friday, and hopes to clinch a deal on new quotas that will be smaller than imports during the last three years after Russia’s invasion, the EU’s agriculture commissioner told Reuters. The EU temporarily waived duties …

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Europe can sustain Ukraine’s war effort without U.S., German general says

6 Jun 2025

By Sabine Siebold BERLIN (Reuters) -Europe is capable of sustaining Ukraine’s resistance against Russia, even if the United States were to decide to completely halt its military support to Kyiv, the senior military official in charge of coordinating Germany’s arms supplies told Reuters. Major General Christian Freuding said NATO’s European members plus Canada had already …

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Russia says its strike against Kyiv and other centres was a response to Ukrainian ‘terrorist acts’

6 Jun 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Friday that its forces had carried out a massive and successful strike on military and military-related targets in Ukraine overnight in response to what it called Ukrainian “terrorist acts” against Russia. Russia’s military released the statement after Ukrainian officials said Russia had launched an intense missile and drone …

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Netherlands to hold election on October 29, ANP reports

6 Jun 2025

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The Netherlands will hold a general election on October 29 following the collapse of the government earlier this week, Dutch news agency ANP reported, citing the country’s caretaker government. (Reporting by Bart Meijer; Editing by Alex Richardson)

Russia faces struggle to replace bombers lost in Ukrainian drone strikes

6 Jun 2025

By Mark Trevelyan and Tom Balmforth LONDON (Reuters) -Russia will take years to replace nuclear-capable bomber planes that were hit in Ukrainian drone strikes last weekend, according to Western military aviation experts, straining a modernisation programme that is already delayed. Satellite photos of airfields in Siberia and Russia’s far north show extensive damage from the …

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Drone attack set fire to industrial site in Russia’s Engels, governor says

6 Jun 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Drones attacked an industrial enterprise in Russia’s southern city of Engels on Friday, causing a fire, the regional governor said. Video posted on social media and verified by Reuters showed a fire burning fiercely and emitting huge clouds of black smoke. Governor Roman Busargin did not specify what kind of industrial site was …

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New Zealand parliament confirms unprecedented lengthy suspension of Indigenous lawmakers

6 Jun 2025

By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand’s parliament agreed on historically lengthy suspensions for three Indigenous lawmakers who last year performed a haka, a traditional Maori dance, disrupting the reading of a controversial bill. A parliamentary privileges committee in May recommended the suspension of the three Te Pati Maori parliamentarians for acting in “a manner …

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On Ireland’s peat bogs, climate action clashes with tradition

6 Jun 2025

By Clodagh Kilcoyne and Conor Humphries CLONBULLOGUE, Ireland (Reuters) -As wind turbines on the horizon churn out clean energy, John Smyth bends to stack damp peat – the cheap, smoky fuel he has harvested for half a century. The painstaking work of “footing turf,” as the process of drying peat for burning is known, is …

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