STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Finnish power grid operator Fingrid said on Friday it expects the Estlink 2 subsea power cable between Finland and Estonia, which was damaged in December, to return to commercial use on June 25, slightly earlier than seen before. Fingrid, which last month predicted the cable would be back in operation on July …
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PARIS (Reuters) -Paris will deploy 5,400 police officers for Saturday’s UEFA Champions League final between Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan, police chief Laurent Nunez said on Friday in an interview with French broadcaster Cnews. Although the match will be held in Munich, a PSG victory would be expected to spark celebrations in the club’s home …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine needs an initial 500 million euros ($566 million) to rebuild the most important infrastructure facilities at its Black Sea ports destroyed by constant Russian missile and drone attacks, a government minister said on Friday. Almost 400 port infrastructure facilities have been damaged as a result of Russian attacks during more than …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin expects Russia and Ukraine to discuss the list of conditions for a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine next week in Istanbul, its spokesman said on Friday, praising the U.S. role in mediating the talks. Russia has proposed holding the second round of talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on June 2. …
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By Alan Charlish WARSAW (Reuters) -The centrist frontrunner in Poland’s knife-edge presidential election on Sunday says Poles know everything about him, contrasting that with the slew of media reports about his nationalist opponent’s alleged past conduct. “The President of the Republic of Poland cannot be someone about whom we learn something every day that not …
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By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) -Roland Garros is bracing for a surreal Saturday evening when the biggest noise around the French Open might come not from the courts, but from the nearby Parc des Princes, where tens of thousands of Paris St Germain fans will gather to watch their team contest the Champions League final …
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By Marta Maciag, Canan Sevgili and Julia Kotowska (Reuters) – Poland holds the second round of a presidential election on June 1, a major test for the pro-European government that will determine whether it can implement its agenda. The vote pits Rafal Trzaskowski from the ruling centrist Civic Coalition (KO) against Karol Nawrocki, who is …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -Israel is blocking all but a trickle of humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said, with almost no ready-to-eat food entering what its spokesperson described as “the hungriest place on earth”. Spokesperson Jens Laerke said only 600 of 900 aid trucks had been …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic said on Friday that he had held another call with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, as the EU and the United States continue efforts to reach a deal on tariffs. “Another call with U.S. Secretary @howardlutnick. Our time and effort fully invested, as delivering forward-looking solutions remains …
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BELGRADE (Reuters) -Serbia and Russia will jointly investigate how Serbia-made ammunition reached Ukraine, President Aleksandar Vucic said, after Moscow accused Belgrade of exporting arms to the government in Kyiv. The SVR, the Russian foreign intelligence service, accused Belgrade of “a stab in the back”, alleging Serbia’s defence manufacturers were selling ammunition and weapons to Ukraine. …
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