(Reuters) – The speaker of the Bulgarian national assembly Nataliya Kiselova has dismissed President Rumen Radev’s proposal for a national referendum on adopting the euro, saying it violated the constitution, the BTA news agency reported on Tuesday. On Monday, Radev had suggested a referendum on Bulgaria’s plans to adopt the euro next year with the …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission will publish a report in early June on whether Bulgaria is ready to adopt the European Union’s euro currency, European Economic Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said. To switch from its lev currency to the euro, Bulgaria needs to meet EU criteria on low inflation, stable and sound public finances, a …
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By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) – Funding cuts have hit aid organisations that help the world’s most vulnerable women especially hard, with over half of those surveyed at risk of closure within six months, a report by the United Nations agency for women said on Tuesday. Since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to office …
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By Alvise Armellini ROME (Reuters) – A leaning medieval tower in the centre of Bologna that was cordoned off due to the risk of its collapse is expected to be stabilised and restored by late 2028, the northern Italian city’s mayor said on Tuesday. Like the more famous Tower of Pisa, the 12th-century Garisenda tower …
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By Daren Butler and Jonathan Spicer ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey is embarking on a hazardous path to ensure the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group implements its decision to disband after 40 years of conflict, facing obstacles that need to be overcome in neighbouring Iraq and Syria. Thousands of heavily armed PKK fighters in northern …
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By Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) -A Paris court on Tuesday found actor Gerard Depardieu guilty of sexually assaulting two women on a film set and handed him an 18-month suspended sentence, with the judge saying he appeared not to have grasped the “traumatic” impact of his behaviour. In the highest-profile #MeToo case to come before …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – In Moscow, some of the best architecture may lie many metres underground. With its vaulted ceilings, marble floors and tiled mosaics of Vladimir Lenin and the Red Army, the Moscow metro is a crown jewel of the Russian capital. In the decades since Muscovites boarded the first train, 90 years ago this …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -Malnutrition rates are rising in Gaza, emergency treatments to counter it are running out and hunger could have a lasting impact on “an entire generation”, a World Health Organization official said on Tuesday. Israel has blockaded supplies into the enclave since early March, when it resumed its devastating military campaign …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – The European Union is ready to impose tougher sanctions on Russia if progress on ending the war in Ukraine is not made this week, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday, adding a new package of sanctions was prepared. “We are waiting for (Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s agreement and we agree that …
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Tuesday she does not think Russia is truly interested in establishing peace in Ukraine. “I don’t think they (Russia) are interested in peace. They are still bombing Ukraine. If they were interested in peace, they could stop right now,” Kallas told reporters at …
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