By Anita Komuves BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Adam Nagy, one of Hungary’s most popular podcasters, says building an audience on YouTube gave him the financial independence to speak his mind in a media landscape dominated by Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his allies. Nagy’s success underscores a broader shift in Hungarian media, where digital platforms like YouTube …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -Ukraine will need strong armed forces and security guarantees after any peace deal with Russia is agreed and Kyiv should not be forced to surrender territory, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Thursday. Stressing that European as well as Ukrainian security interests were at stake, Merz said guarantees were being discussed with the …
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MADRID (Reuters) -Spain’s Supreme Court ordered prison on remand for former Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos on Thursday, who is implicated in one of the corruption scandals dogging the leftist government of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. In a writ seen by Reuters, the court said Abalos, who also was a senior official in the ruling …
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(Corrects date by which Macron aims to reach 50,000 particpants to 2035 from 2036 in paragraph 7) By Elizabeth Pineau and Lewis Macdonald PARIS (Reuters) -President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday announced the creation of a new voluntary youth military service to begin by mid-2026, which would help France respond to “accelerating threats” on the global …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The EU’s Ombudswoman accused the European Commission on Thursday of rushing to propose measures on sustainability reporting, agriculture and migrant smuggling without following its own rules on transparent and evidence-based lawmaking. The watchdog of EU institutions said the Commission had failed to justify the urgency of the measures, citing findings from an inquiry …
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KINGSTOWN -Residents of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines head to the polls on Thursday in a general election that could usher in an unprecedented sixth-consecutive five-year term for Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of the ruling Unity Labour Party (ULP). Gonsalves, 79, has served as prime minister of the multi-island Caribbean nation since 2001 and is …
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By Andrew Osborn ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (Reuters) -A Russian military court on Thursday sentenced eight men to life in prison over their purported role in a deadly Ukrainian truck bomb attack on the bridge which links southern Russia to Crimea in a ruling celebrated by war bloggers. Ukraine’s SBU domestic intelligence agency claimed responsibility for the …
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MOSCOW/WARSAW (Reuters) -Russia on Thursday ordered Poland to close its consulate in the Siberian city of Irkutsk in retaliation for Warsaw’s decision to close the last Russian consulate in Poland after a railway explosion that was blamed on Moscow. Poland, a former Warsaw Pact member which joined the U.S.-led NATO military alliance in 1999, said …
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(Reuters) -Russian judokas will be allowed to compete under their national flag once again, the International Judo Federation (IJF) said on Thursday after its executive committee voted to end a ban imposed after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Athletes from Russia have been allowed to compete at IJF events under a neutral banner as …
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By Elvira Pollina and Sara Rossi MILAN/CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (Reuters) -Local organisers have been forced to cap the number of tickets on sale for Winter Olympic events in Cortina d’Ampezzo in February because of concerns over transport congestion, heightened by delays in building a new cable car to take fans up the mountain. The issues …
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