By Dan Peleschuk LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -After losing her son to Russia’s war in Ukraine, Olya Kachmaryk hopes a new U.S.-backed peace plan can finally end the fighting – even if it could mean giving up land he fought for as a soldier. “The more they (the Russians) come this way, the more they’ll want,” …
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BELFAST (Reuters) -Prosecutors in Northern Ireland withdrew charges on Friday against two teenage Romanian boys over an alleged sexual assault that sparked days of anti-immigrant riots in June, including attacks on police and the setting on fire of migrants’ homes. The street violence erupted after two then 14-year-old boys were arrested and later charged with …
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ROME (Reuters) -Strikes and protests in Italy on Friday against Giorgia Meloni’s government caused the cancellation of dozens of flights and disrupted train services around the country. The hardline USB union and smaller worker organisations called the one-day action against the government’s plans to raise military spending and its support for Israel. Recent years have …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland has detained two Ukrainians and three Belarusians on charges of acting on the orders of foreign intelligence services, prosecutors said on Friday, as Warsaw warns of Russian attempts to destabilise countries backing Kyiv. Poland says it has been targeted with arson and cyberattacks in what it calls a “hybrid war” waged by …
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By Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) -Russia failed on Friday to win enough votes to rejoin the U.N. shipping agency’s governing council despite urging countries to back its nomination for a seat it lost in 2023. The outcome is another blow for Russia which also failed to secure enough support in September to get elected to …
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GENEVA (Reuters) -U.N. agencies on Friday appealed to Washington to continue allowing asylum seekers access to the country and to be given due process after President Donald Trump vowed to freeze migration from “Third World” countries following an attack near the White House. The comments mark a further escalation of migration measures Trump has ordered …
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By Matteo Negri POMPEII, Italy (Reuters) -Pompeii’s ancient Roman frescoes, shattered and buried for centuries, could get a second life thanks to a pioneering robotic system designed to support archaeologists in one of their most painstaking tasks: reassembling fragmented artefacts. The technology, developed under an EU-funded project called RePAIR, combines advanced image recognition, AI-driven puzzle-solving, …
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By Sarah Marsh and Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday his coalition has agreed to carry out a comprehensive pension reform next year, a move aimed at easing concerns over an interim pensions bill that had threatened to destabilise his government. The youth wing of Merz’s conservatives had said they …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin greeted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Moscow on Friday on a rare visit by an EU and NATO leader, saying he would still be happy for Budapest to host a Russia-U.S. summit with President Donald Trump. Orban said he wanted detailed talks on Russian oil and gas …
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DUBLIN (Reuters) -Dublin City Council has decided not to remove Irish tricolour flags hung by right-wing activists in some parts of the city in a campaign that has stirred debate about immigration, saying on Friday that doing so would carry risks and be counterproductive. While no group has publicly admitted to raising the flags, far-right …
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