STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – A Swedish court on Wednesday ordered the detention of a man suspected of spying on ethnic Uyghurs for China, Sweden’s prosecution authority said on Wednesday. The prosecution authority declined to give more detail on the case or whether it concerned the small population of Uyghurs living in Sweden or groups elsewhere. The …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian state railways Ukrzaliznytsia, the country’s largest cargo carrier, said on Wednesday that it had managed to restore only about half of its IT services hit by a large-scale cyber attack in late March. An outage was first reported on March 23 when the rail company notified passengers about a failure in …
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ROME (Reuters) – Italians offered pizza and ice cream to Britain’s Queen Camilla to help celebrate the 20th anniversary of her wedding to King Charles during a state visit to Italy on Wednesday. Camilla and Charles walked to the renowned Giolitti cafe in central Rome where the queen sampled an ice cream from a paper …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spain will pursue closer trade ties with China in the interests of its citizens and of the EU, its agriculture minister Luis Planas said on Wednesday, rejecting a U.S. warning that moving closer to the Asian country would be “cutting your own throat”. “We have excellent trade relations with China which we …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine will introduce the mandatory addition of 5% bioethanol to motor fuel from May 1 to meet EU sustainability regulations and some European refineries have already started producing fuel for Ukraine, analyst Enkorr said on Wednesday. The Ukrainian parliament passed a law in June 2024 on the mandatory use of renewable bioethanol …
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By Robert Harvey and Aleksandar Vasovic LONDON/BELGRADE (Reuters) -Serbian oil firm NIS is struggling to buy oil from traders abroad, while at home its former clients are seeking alternative fuel suppliers as pending U.S. sanctions have impacted operations, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. NIS is majority-owned by Russia’s Gazprom Neft and Gazprom and …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Wednesday issued a risk alert for Chinese tourists travelling to the U.S., according to a statement from the culture and tourism ministry. The ministry said it reminded Chinese tourists to assess the risks of travelling to the U.S. and travel with caution, citing recent “deterioration of China-U.S. economic and trade …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will raise the issue of the resumption of direct flights with the U.S. and the return of diplomatic property at Russian-U.S. talks on Thursday in Istanbul, Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., Alexander Darchiev, was quoted as saying on Wednesday. Direct flights between the U.S. and Russia, along with those to many …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday that it had expelled two Romanian diplomats shortly after the country’s charge d’affaires in Moscow was summoned. In a statement, the ministry said it had declared Romania’s military attache and deputy military attache as persona non grata, ordering them to leave Russia. The move, it said, …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s future government of conservatives and centre-left Social Democrats on Wednesday agreed on measures aimed at curbing illegal migration, including rejecting asylum seekers at borders, enabling deportations to Syria and suspending family reunions. The parties want to suspend family reunification for people with a so-called subsidiary protection status for two years and …
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