By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is heading to the White House for a meeting on Thursday with President Donald Trump, seeking to ease tensions over U.S. tariffs on European goods and position herself as a bridge between Washington and Brussels. Meloni is walking a tightrope between her ideological affinity …
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(Reuters) -NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte visited the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday and declared “unwavering” support for Ukraine in the aftermath of a deadly Russian attack in the north of the country. Rutte’s visit came two days after Russian ballistic missile strikes on the city of Sumy on …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian, British, French and Turkish representatives will discuss Black Sea security in Turkey on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. “This is a military meeting on security in the Black Sea, first of all, a coalition of the willing, appropriate steps,” Zelenskiy said in Odesa, speaking alongside NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. …
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By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) -European Union observers said on Tuesday that they “categorically” reject allegations of fraud in Ecuador’s Sunday presidential elections, joining a chorus of rejections of leftist Luisa Gonzalez’s call for a recount. Electoral authorities, the Organization of American States, the United States and members of Gonzalez’s own party have said that …
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By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) – Europe must remove borrowing limits for defence spending or face the prospect of war with Russia, Lithuanian Defence Minister Dovile Sakaliene told Reuters on Tuesday. “Defence now is an existential matter, it’s more important than structural reforms”, said Sakaliene. “If you cannot provide enough ammo for your soldiers, it …
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Europe faced its most widespread flooding last year since 2013, with 30% of the continent’s river network hit by significant floods, scientists said on Tuesday, as fossil fuel-driven climate change continued to prompt torrential rain and other extreme weather. Flooding killed at least 335 people in Europe in 2024 and …
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(Reuters) – Georgia has fired around 700 civil servants for supporting pro-European Union protests in the South Caucasus country since December, according to the local chapter of anti-corruption organisation Transparency International. Large protests erupted in November, after the government, which critics say is moving in a pro-Russian and authoritarian direction, said it was freezing EU …
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By Joshua McElwee ASSISI, Italy (Reuters) – Carlo Acutis, a British-born Italian boy who built websites to spread his faith, will be proclaimed the Catholic Church’s first saint of the millennial generation this month, elevating him to the same level as Mother Teresa and Francis of Assisi. There is no doubt he was special, his …
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(This April 14 story has been corrected to show that the criminal network is Swedish, not Iranian, in the headline and in paragraph 1) LONDON (Reuters) – The British government on Monday sanctioned what it said was a Swedish-based criminal network and its leader, citing the group’s role in attacks carried out on behalf of …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The investigation into the deaths of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, banker Jonathan Bloomer and members of their families who perished when a luxury yacht sank last year will take many months, a British inquest was told on Tuesday. Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah and Morgan Stanley International chairman Bloomer and his …
