By Nora Buli OSLO (Reuters) – Relatively wet and mild weather has kept Norway’s hydropower reservoirs well-filled over the winter but also limits the risk of a large spring flood that could see water go to waste, the country’s largest producer, Statkraft, told Reuters. Hydropower is the main electricity source for Norway, a major power …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Balancing France’s budget for the 2026 calendar year will be a tough challenge due to needing to both cut the deficit and make room for higher military spending, government spokeswoman Sophie Primas said on Wednesday. “The prime minister today insists that the 2026 budget, which is going to be a nightmare given …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spain, which has NATO’s lowest defence spending as a share of its economy, will outline and start implementing a plan to boost the defence sector before the summer, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez told lawmakers on Wednesday, without providing details. “The objective of this plan is for Spain to contribute to and, at …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Wednesday condemned the arrest of the leader of Moldova’s pro-Russian Gagauz ethnic minority, saying it was a blatant example of trying to use the methods of a police state to neutralise an opponent of President Maia Sandu. Police in Moldova detained Eugenia Gutul at Chisinau’s international airport late on Tuesday, …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian state TV journalist was killed and her cameraman was seriously injured by a landmine in Russia’s Belgorod region near the border with Ukraine, state television said on Wednesday. War correspondent Anna Prokofieva and cameraman Dmitry Volkov ran over a landmine planted by the Ukrainian military, the Pervy Kanal TV channel …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British house prices rose at their fastest pace in two years in the 12 months to January, according to official data published on Wednesday. Average house prices rose by an annual 4.9% to 269,000 pounds ($346,956.20) in January 2025, the fastest increase since January 2023 and up from a 4.6% increase in …
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ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet in Jerusalem on Sunday, two Greek sources told Reuters on Wednesday. The agenda of the talks was expected to be extensive, one of the sources said. The two leaders last met in Israel in 2023. Greece condemned the October …
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By Jonathan Spicer and Huseyin Hayatsever ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Anti-government protesters in Turkey said they planned to keep up a campaign of demonstrations triggered by the jailing of Istanbul’s mayor – the biggest such opposition action in a decade – despite mass arrests and clashes with police. President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that what he …
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Thousands of people protested in Budapest on Tuesday against a new law that aims to ban the annual Pride march by LGBTQ+ communities and allows the use of facial recognition software to identify organizers and attendees. Hungary’s parliament passed a law proposed by ruling Fidesz party lawmakers last week to ban the …
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(Reuters) – Russia’s defence units destroyed nine Ukrainian drones overnight, including two over the waters of the Black Sea, the Russian defence ministry said on Wednesday. The United States reached separate deals on Tuesday with Ukraine and Russia to pause their attacks over the Black Sea and against each other’s energy targets, with Washington agreeing …
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