(Reuters) – The Slovak government on Wednesday approved the shooting of 350 bears this year after a rising number of attacks by the brown bears, whose population has grown over the past several years, Prime Minister Robert Fico said. The central European country is home to a bear population in its many mountain areas, numbering …
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By James Mackenzie JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu begins a four-day visit to Hungary on Thursday, defying an International Criminal Court arrest warrant over allegations of war crimes in Gaza as Israel has expanded its military operation in the enclave. As a founding member of the ICC, Hungary is theoretically obliged to …
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary has deployed soldiers and launched new disinfection measures to help contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in a northwestern area bordering Slovakia and Austria, the agriculture minister said on Wednesday. Hungary reported its first case in more than 50 years of the disease, which often leads to trade restrictions, on a …
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OSLO (Reuters) – NATO member Norway will not withdraw from the global convention banning anti-personnel landmines as all the other European countries bordering Russia have done, the country’s foreign minister said on Wednesday. Finland on Tuesday said it planned to quit the 1997 Ottawa Convention as a way to mitigate the military threat posed by …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Wind farms off the northern German coast have been asked to install radar facilities in an attempt to boost surveillance of ships and drones, the federal maritime authority said on Wednesday. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has heightened security concerns in European waters, with attacks on infrastructure and the discovery of ageing oil …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian restrictions were imposed Black Sea oil export infrastructure from the Caspian pipeline (CPC) due to Ukrainian drone attacks on the pipeline’s infrastructure, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. Russia ordered the Black Sea terminal handling Kazakhstan’s oil exports pumped by U.S. majors Chevron and Exxon Mobil to close two of its three …
By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – Who is Kirill Dmitriev, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s investment envoy, who is reportedly heading to Washington for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration? WHAT IS HIS JOB? Dmitriev, 49, the chief of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Russian Direct Investment Fund since 2011, was appointed in February as …
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ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece aims to spend 25 billion euros ($26.99 billion) as part of a multi-year defence plan, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told parliament on Wednesday. The move is part of Greece’s bid to modernise its armed forces as it emerges from the 2009-2018 debt crisis that led to years of austerity, and as …
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(Reuters) – Greek and Turkish Cypriots will cooperate on removing landmines between their estranged communities and undertake initiatives on the environment and climate change, their leaders agreed on Wednesday, weeks after the U.N. hailed the first meaningful progress in years in talks on the future of the divided island. The announcement was made in a …
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KYIV (Reuters) – At least one person was killed and 10 injured, including three children, in overnight drone attacks by Russia on Ukraine, officials said on Wednesday. Various attacks also damaged energy facilities in two regions, according to the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy. The attacks came as both sides accuse each other of not abiding …
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