LONDON (Reuters) -Britain said on Tuesday it would place anyone working for the Russian state on the highest tier of its upcoming Foreign Influence Registration Scheme, requiring Moscow to register all efforts to exert political influence in the UK. Ties between Moscow and London are at a low over Britain’s support for Ukraine following Russia’s …
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By Maya Gebeily, Laila Bassam and James Mackenzie BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli airstrike killed four people including a Hezbollah official in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Tuesday, a Lebanese security source said, further testing a shaky ceasefire between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah. The Israeli military said the official – Hassan Bdeir – was a member …
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By Andreas Rinke HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) -The likely new leader of the German state of Lower Saxony on Tuesday promised continuity in the oversight of Volkswagen after Social Democrat Stephan Weil said he would stand down in May after 12 years as state premier and VW board member. Lower Saxony has a major influence on …
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ROME (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President JD Vance is planning to visit Italy later this month, a diplomatic source said on Tuesday, highlighting the apparently warm ties between Washington and Rome. Italy is one of the few countries in Europe that has looked to accommodate President Donald Trump, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni recently saying …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Commission said on Tuesday it will propose expanding the role of EU law enforcement cooperation agency Europol and boosting law enforcement access to data as part of a strategy to improve the bloc’s internal security. Faced with geopolitical challenges, hybrid threats and more digital crime, Europe is looking at ways to …
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By Maggie Fick and Michael Erman LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) -Drugmakers are lobbying U.S. President Donald Trump to phase in tariffs on imported pharmaceutical products in hopes of reducing the sting from the charges and to allow time to shift manufacturing, according to four sources familiar with the discussions. Trump is expected to unveil a massive …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union has a “strong plan” to retaliate against tariffs imposed, and set to be imposed, by U.S. President Donald Trump, although it would prefer to negotiate a solution, EU executive chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday. The Trump administration put in place tariffs on imported steel and aluminium …
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By Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) -Spain will increase its defence spending to 2% of gross domestic product well before an original target date of 2029, but it is not setting any specific new deadlines, Defence Minister Margarita Robles said on Tuesday. Among the 32 members of NATO, Spain has the lowest defence spending as a …
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By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said this week that if Iran did not strike a deal with the United States over its nuclear programme “there will be bombing”, adding to U.S. ally Israel’s long-standing threat to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. Below are some of Iran’s main nuclear facilities. WHERE ARE IRAN’S …
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -A man who went on a stabbing rampage in Amsterdam last Thursday, wounding five people, is suspected of their attempted murders with a likely terrorist intent, Dutch prosecutors said on Tuesday. The suspect, who police said checked in to an Amsterdam hotel last Wednesday, is a 30-year-old Ukrainian national from the Donetsk region. …
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