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Polish nationalist Nawrocki wins presidency in setback for pro-EU government

3 Jun 2025

By Barbara Erling and Anna Magdalena Lubowicka WARSAW (Reuters) -Nationalist opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki narrowly won Poland’s presidential election, results showed on Monday, delivering a big blow to the centrist government’s efforts to cement Warsaw’s pro-European orientation. In a victory for European conservatives inspired by U.S. President Donald Trump, Nawrocki secured 50.89% of the vote, …

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Romanian pleads guilty to ‘swatting’ US lawmakers and top officials

3 Jun 2025

By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Romanian man has pleaded guilty to participating in a years-long series of dangerous hoax phone calls and bomb threats targeting American legislators, law enforcement leaders, and government officials, the U.S. Justice Department said Monday. In a statement, the department said that Thomasz Szabo, 26, who was extradited to the …

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Two exiled Belarusian publishers share Prix Voltaire for defending their language and culture

2 Jun 2025

(Corrects 3rd paragraph to say Kandrusevich now lives in Poland, not Sweden) By Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) -Two Belarusians who fled repression in their native country were named on Monday as winners of the Prix Voltaire, a prestigious award that recognises publishers who fight for freedom of expression. Dmitri Strotsev is a publisher and poet who …

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Russian attacks kill at least five in Ukraine’s east, officials say

2 Jun 2025

(Reuters) -Russian shelling killed at least five people on Monday in different frontline areas of eastern Ukraine, officials said. Vadym Filashkin, governor of Donetsk region, the focal point of the Russian military’s slow westward advance, said one person was killed and two injured in the city of Kramatorsk. The city would be a key Russian …

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EU warned by advisers not to weaken new climate goal

2 Jun 2025

By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union’s independent advisers have warned against watering down the bloc’s planned 2040 climate goal, as EU officials consider softening the target to try to contain a political backlash against ambitious environmental policies. The European Commission plans to propose in July a legally binding target to cut EU countries’ …

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Polish PM Tusk to call for vote of confidence in government

2 Jun 2025

WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk will call for a parliamentary vote of confidence in his coalition government, after his candidate, Rafal Trzaskowski, lost the presidential election on Sunday. “The first test will be a vote of confidence, which I will ask in the Parliament soon,” Tusk said on Monday in a televised speech.”I …

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Two dead and 500 arrested in France during PSG win celebrations

2 Jun 2025

PARIS (Reuters) – More than 500 people were arrested by police during the Champions League final celebrations in France, and two people were reported dead and 192 injured, the interior ministry said as further festivities were planned on Sunday. Wild celebrations erupted across the French capital and beyond on Saturday night after Paris St Germain …

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