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Belgium charges eight people in EU parliament bribery probe

4 Apr 2025

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Eight people have been charged with corruption, money laundering and participation in a criminal organisation following a probe into suspected bribery at the European Parliament, Belgium’s public prosecutor said in a statement on Friday. The charges come after Belgian prosecutors said on March 13 they had detained several individuals over suspected bribery in …

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Israeli leader Netanyahu applauds Hungary’s ICC exit on Budapest visit

4 Apr 2025

(This April 3 story has been corrected to change the source to the ICC’s Presidency of the Assembly of State Parties, not the ICC Presidency, in paragraph 10) By Anita Komuves and Maayan Lubell BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu applauded Hungary for its “bold and principled” decision to leave the International Criminal Court …

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Rubio says US can no longer supply bulk of global humanitarian aid

4 Apr 2025

By Daphne Psaledakis and Humeyra Pamuk BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will no longer bear the burden of providing the majority of global humanitarian aid, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday, calling on other wealthy nations to step up after an earthquake devastated parts of Myanmar. “We’re not the government of the …

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US lobbies UN rights council forsaken by Trump, diplomats say

4 Apr 2025

By Emma Farge and Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) – Two months after President Donald Trump announced a halt to U.S. engagement with the United Nations Human Rights Council, Washington is influencing its work by applying pressure publicly and behind the scenes, seven diplomats and rights workers said. The United States left its seat empty …

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After Putin envoy’s US talks, Kremlin says Putin and Trump have no plans to speak

4 Apr 2025

By Andrew Osborn and Gleb Stolyarov MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump had no plans to talk after a visit to Washington by Putin’s investment envoy as wider negotiations over a ceasefire in Ukraine appeared stalled. NBC News reported on Thursday that Trump’s inner …

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Russia jails defence official for seven years on bribery charge

4 Apr 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A former Russian defence official was convicted on Friday of taking bribes and sentenced to seven years in a penal colony, state news agency TASS said. Andrei Chekmazov, a reserve colonel, was accused of accepting kickbacks worth more than 16 million roubles ($188,000) from the head of a company which had received …

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Turkey’s Fidan on Syria, Israel, Ukraine war, ties with U.S

4 Apr 2025

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Turkey’s foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, discussed Israeli strikes in Syria, the U.S. policy U-turn and sanctions, and a possible Ukraine-Russia peace deal in an interview with Reuters on the sidelines of a NATO meeting in Brussels on Friday. Here are some of his key comments: SYRIA, ISRAEL, UNITED STATES: “We don’t want …

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Hungary’s Orban seeks deal with telecoms, banks to bring down prices

4 Apr 2025

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s government is targeting negotiated agreements with telecom companies and banks on price levels, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday, as part of wider efforts to curb surging services inflation. With rising prices threatening to derail the veteran right-wing leader’s hopes of reelection in 2026, Orban’s government imposed food price controls …

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Hard-right candidate leads field as new Romania election campaign begins

4 Apr 2025

BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romanian presidential candidates began campaigning on Friday for the rerun of an election canceled over accusations of Russian meddling, with Romania’s role in NATO and the EU and its aid to neighbouring Ukraine in the spotlight. Leading opinion polls for the first round of the two-round election on May 4 and 18 …

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Vatican’s foreign minister discusses Ukraine with Russia’s Lavrov

4 Apr 2025

By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -The Vatican’s Foreign Minister Archbishop Paul Gallagher held a phone call on Friday with Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov to discuss the war in Ukraine and plans to stop the fighting, the Vatican said. Russia’s foreign ministry later said the call had been initiated by the Vatican, and that Lavrov …

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