ATHENS – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday that illegal migrants denied asylum by Greece should be returned to their country of origin, and he urged the European Union to provide a new list of “safe countries” to help speed up returns. “We’re looking forward with great eagerness to the new list of …
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PARIS (Reuters) -France’s public investment bank Bpifrance will launch a 450 million euro ($490 million) defence-focused fund, Finance Minister Eric Lombard said on Thursday, ahead of a speech in which he will outline how to finance the military expenditure. The fund will be part of the country’s efforts to ramp up military spending due to …
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By Ossian Shine PYLOS, Greece – The slow-burn race for the most powerful job in world sport roared into life on Wednesday, set against the dazzling backdrop of the Ionian Sea, where the seven contenders for the International Olympic Committee presidency made their final moves ahead of a vote that will shape the sporting landscape …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Russia launched a new barrage of drones at Ukraine in an overnight attack, wounding at least 10 people, including four children, and damaging residential houses in the city of Kropyvnytskyi, officials said. Ukraine’s air defences shot down 75 out of 171 Russian drones, the air force said. It said that 63 drones …
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PARIS (Reuters) – One person has died after a boat carrying migrants trying to cross the English Channel from France got into difficulties overnight, said a local French authority on Thursday. The French local authority responsible for the North Sea and English Channel regions said 15 people had been rescued and brought back to shore …
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By Yuliia Dysa and Tom Balmforth (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that a halt on energy strikes in the war with Russia could be established quickly, but warned Ukraine would respond in kind if Moscow violated the terms of the limited ceasefire. After speaking to U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday for …
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(Reuters) -French citizen Olivier Grondeau was released from detention in Iran, French President Macron announced on Thursday in a post on X. “We share his family’s immense happiness and relief,” said Macron. Grondeau has spent 887 days in detention, said the country’s Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot in another post while also sharing a photo …
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(Reuters) -Poland is discussing ways of working together with Britain and European nations to boost defence production while getting better value for taxpayers, Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski told the Financial Times in an interview on Thursday. Domanski said “new tools” for defence spending figured in his talks with British Finance Minister Rachel Reeves in London …
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(Reuters) – Ukrainian and U.S. teams could meet in Saudi Arabia in the coming days to discuss technicalities of partial ceasefire, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said after what he described as “very substantive” call with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump. “We instructed our teams to resolve technical issues related to implementing and expanding the partial ceasefire. Ukrainian …
(Reuters) – Russian authorities dispatched more firefighters to extinguish a blaze which broke out at an oil depot in southern Krasnodar region, officials said, after a drone attack on the facility. Authorities in the region said a total of 406 firefighters and 157 pieces of equipment had been sent to the site near the village …
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