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By Karolina Tagaris and Georgi Slavov ATHENS/SOFIA (Reuters) -After months of negotiations, Bulgaria and Greece have signed a five-year water deal, the Bulgarian foreign ministry confirmed on Wednesday, a decision that prompted relief among Greek farmers anxious about their crops. The deal replaces a 60-year agreement that expired last July, underscoring just how precarious water …

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – State-run Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) said on Wednesday it signed a deal to sell its BlueWhale autonomous submarine system to the Greek Navy. IAI did not disclose financial details. BlueWhale is a large uncrewed underwater vehicle weighing 5.5 tons and can perform a wide range of covert maritime missions, including intelligence-gathering above …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union renewed an urgent call on Wednesday for Israel to immediately lift the blockade on Gaza, allowing humanitarian aid to reach those in need, and warned against Israel’s planned new aid delivery mechanism. “As the occupying power, Israel is obliged under international law to ensure that humanitarian aid reaches the …

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PARIS (Reuters) – France and Germany are in close contact in their unwavering support for Ukraine and will continue to work towards a 30-day ceasefire, French president Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday, speaking alongside new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the Elysee palace. “There is only one question that needs to be answered: is Russia …

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ATHENS – Greece backs an Arab plan for the reconstruction of Gaza once a ceasefire is achieved, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday. “The first priority is for hostilities to stop and restore the flow of humanitarian aid to civilians,” Mitsotakis said after meeting Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Athens. He added that …

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LISBON (Reuters) – Portuguese grid operator REN will allow utilities to resume imports of electricity from Spain, but the transmission capacity will be limited to around one-third of the levels seen before the huge power blackout in the two countries on April 28. Spain suffered a catastrophic outage in its electricity grid on that day, …

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By Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) – European nations want to spend big on artillery, missiles and drones, but costly military pension commitments risk constraining those ambitious plans, according to previously unreported NATO-member defence budget data compiled by Reuters. NATO’s European members are rushing to ramp up spending on military hardware as a bellicose Russia threatens …

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