CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli authorities freed a Palestinian emergency responder who went missing in late March when 15 humanitarian workers were killed in Gaza in an incident that drew worldwide condemnation, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said on Tuesday. PRCS staff member Asaad Al-Nsasrah went missing after the 15 paramedics and other rescue workers were …
By Aislinn Laing MADRID (Reuters) – Monday’s huge outage delivered Spaniards and Portuguese a stark reminder of how dependent on power they are in their modern lives, and how in an instant they can find themselves incapacitated. The power failure at around midday that lasted eight hours saw some people trapped in lifts, while others …
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By Lucy Papachristou (Reuters) – Georgian prosecutors said on Tuesday they had conducted searches at the apartments of five individuals who helped organise funding campaigns to support street protesters, amid a government crackdown on the rallies that have raged for months. Georgians have taken to the streets nightly since November to voice opposition to a …
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Telecom services have been restored to remote communities in Greenland that were cut off from crucial satellite access due to a massive power blackout in far-away Spain, the Arctic island’s telecoms group said on Tuesday. Tusass, owned by Greenland’s government, said on Monday that it had lost connection to satellite equipment based …
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By Timour Azhari IDLIB/DAMASCUS, Syria (Reuters) – The toppling of Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad has been great for Mohammad al-Badawi. His sales have doubled as beverages he imports cheaply from Turkey into the former-rebel stronghold of Idlib can now be sold in the rest of Syria. For Haytham Joud business has collapsed. He built his …
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LONDON (Reuters) -An ice hockey player whose skate fatally cut the neck of a fellow player during a match will not face criminal charges, British prosecutors said on Tuesday after a police investigation into the 2023 incident in northern England. American Adam Johnson, 29, who played for the Nottingham Panthers, suffered the fatal injury during …
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PARIS (Reuters) – France’s foreign ministry accused Israel’s embassy of “unacceptable” behaviour on Tuesday after it banned two French groups, including elected officials, from visiting Israel and alleged the groups were linked to a terrorist organisation. In a statement on Monday, Israel’s embassy said it would not allow any individual or delegation associated with the …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s High Court on Tuesday said it will open an investigation into Monday’s huge power outage to find out if a cyberattack against Spanish critical infrastructures may have caused the blackout in nearly all of the Iberian Peninsula. In that were the case, Judge Jorge Calama would investigate it as a crime …
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SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Mey, a Belgian shepherd, and her trainer Kenan Muftic learned how to effectively detect mines and unexploded ordnance last week, negotiating various obstacles and scenarios in a grass field in Sarajevo’s suburb of Butmir. Since its establishment in 2004, the Norwegian People’s Aid Global Training Centre for Mine and Explosive Detection Dogs in …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish electricity grid operator REE said on Tuesday its preliminary assessment had ruled out cyberattack as the cause of the nationwide power outage that hit most of Spain and Portugal on Monday. Lights went off in most of the two countries at 12:33 p.m. (1033 GMT) on Monday in what was the …
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