PARIS (Reuters) -The French interior ministry said on Tuesday that it would propose a ban on Legion X, a fan group for second-tier football club Paris FC, due to it being involved with serious violence for years. A national commission on the prevention of sports-related violence met earlier on Tuesday to discuss several fan groups, …
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DUBLIN (Reuters) – The speaker of the lower house of Ireland’s parliament defeated a no confidence motion laid down by the main opposition parties as expected on Tuesday after maintaining the support of the coalition government. Verona Murphy, an independent lawmaker whose elevation to the post after a November general election was backed by the …
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(Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 struck Iceland on Tuesday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), GFZ said. (Reporting by Pretish M J in Bengaluru; Editing by Chris Reese)
By Elizabeth Pineau and Stephanie Lecocq PARIS/HENIN-BEAUMONT (Reuters) -A Paris court said on Tuesday three appeals have been filed so far in the case against the far-right National Rally party that saw leader Marine Le Pen banned from running for office for five years, but did not provide details on who had filed them. The …
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(Refiles to remove truncated bullet point; story text unchanged) By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s interior minister claimed success for her outgoing government in efforts to curb irregular immigration, saying deportations were up and asylum claims down in an apparent centre-left pitch to be part of the next ruling coalition. Nancy Faeser, a Social Democrat, …
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PARIS (Reuters) – The Paris appeals court said on Tuesday it had received three appeals for a court decision against the far-right National Rally party that saw its leader Marine Le Pen banned from running for public office for five years. It added in a statement it should be able to provide a decision by …
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COPENHAGEN/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A fourth U.S. Army soldier, who together with three others went missing in Lithuania last week when their vehicle sank in a peat bog, has been found dead, U.S. and Lithuanian officials said on Tuesday. The three other soldiers were found dead on Monday after rescuers recovered the armoured vehicle of the four …
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By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia cannot accept U.S. proposals to end the war in Ukraine in their current form because they do not address problems Moscow regards as having caused the conflict, a senior Russian diplomat said, suggesting U.S.-Russia talks on the subject had stalled. The comments by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov suggest …
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By Krisztina Fenyo and Gergely Szakacs BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Thousands of Hungarians protested in Budapest on Tuesday against a law that aims to ban the annual Pride march by LGBTQ+ groups, and which is seen by critics as part of a wider crackdown on democratic freedoms ahead of a 2026 parliamentary election. Right-wing Prime Minister …
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ZURICH (Reuters) -The value of Russian assets frozen in Switzerland due to economic sanctions on Moscow rose to 7.4 billion Swiss francs ($8.38 billion) at the end of March 2025 from 5.8 billion francs a year earlier, the Swiss government said on Tuesday. The 1.6 billion franc increase was due to the identification and blocking …
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