(Reuters) – Russian opposition politician Boris Nadezhdin, who tried unsuccessfully to run against Vladimir Putin in a presidential election last year, was declared bankrupt by a Moscow court on Thursday, state media reported. Acting on a petition filed in May 2024 on behalf of Rosenergobank, which itself went bankrupt in 2017, the arbitration court found …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – The tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump will put a strain on the United States’ exports as well, said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday. At a press conference in Berlin, Scholz also pointed to complex supply chains: “Sometimes there are so many supply chain dependencies that some things are sent …
VIENNA (Reuters) -Austria will close two smaller crossings at its border with Slovakia and 21 at its border with Hungary from Saturday, in a bid to prevent foot-and-mouth disease from entering the country, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday. The first outbreak of the highly infectious disease in 50 years in Hungary led the country …
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(Reuters) – The Bulgarian government, led by Rosen Zhelyazkov, survived a vote of no confidence on Thursday, launched over its foreign policy, BTA news agency reported. The no-confidence motion, initiated by the Vazrazhdane party and backed by lawmakers from Velichie and MECh, failed to secure the necessary majority. The vote ended with 54 members in …
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LISBON (Reuters) – Portuguese police on Thursday raided the offices of several public institutions in a corruption probe involving the acquisition of information technology services, including at the Bank of Portugal, which confirmed the searches. Police said in a statement they were carrying out 75 searches in Lisbon, Porto and Braga at homes, accounting firms, …
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By Lucy Papachristou (Reuters) – Moscow’s troops were waging fierce battles on Thursday in Russia’s western Kursk region against Ukrainian forces, including hundreds holed up in a monastery, in an effort to rout them from Kyiv’s last major foothold in sovereign Russian territory, war bloggers said. Ukrainian troops stormed across the border into Russia last …
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary decided to quit the International Criminal Court (ICC) because it has become political, as its decisions on Israel showed, Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban said on Thursday. (Reporting by Anita Komuves and Maayan Lubell; writing by Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk)
By Lori Ewing (Reuters) -The United Kingdom appears set to host the 2035 Women’s World Cup after FIFA President Gianni Infantino on Thursday described its interest as the “one valid bid” for the tournament. England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales announced last month that they would submit a joint bid to host the finals. England’s …
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ATHENS (Reuters) -At least seven migrants died, including one boy, one girl and two women, when their boat sank on Thursday off the Greek island of Lesbos, Greece’s coastguard said. The boat was detected by a patrolling coastguard vessel at about 2 a.m. (2300 GMT) north of Lesbos. So far 23 migrants have been rescued …
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ATHENS (Reuters) – A Greek court has found a man guilty over the 2020 death of a British woman on the tourist island of Corfu, lawyers said on Thursday. Claire Glatman, 60, was fatally injured when she was hit by the propeller of a speed boat while swimming off the beach of Avlaki, on the …
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