BRUSSELS (Reuters) – French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Monday that he had proposed at a European Union meeting for sanctions to be placed on those behind attacks against Syria’s Alawites. Syria has been hit with widespread violence over the last few weeks, after Syria’s Sunni Islamist-led authorities said their security forces came under …
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Norwegian police said on Monday they are investigating a break-in at a disused electricity transformer station near Oslo where an oil spill was discovered on Sunday. National power grid operator Statnett said that some 50 to 60 tonnes of oil had leaked from a transformer and that this was believed to be caused …
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(Reuters) – Slovak prosecutors have filed terrorism charges against the attacker who shot and seriously wounded Prime Minister Robert Fico last year, the general prosecutor’s office said on Monday. The suspect, who was 71 at the time of the incident last May, shot Fico four times at close range in the abdomen. Fico, 60, a …
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By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) – Lithuanian prosecutors accused Russia’s military intelligence on Monday of orchestrating an arson attack on an IKEA store in Vilnius in May, and suggested it may have been targeted because the chain’s logo uses the same colours as Ukraine’s flag. The fire broke out in the store in Lithuania’s capital …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday that it was sad to hear that the U.S. was withdrawing funding for Radio Free Europe but that the EU cannot automatically come in with funding. Radio Free Europe “has been a beacon of democracy, and very valuable,” Kallas, a former Estonian …
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungary’s ruling party submitted a bill to parliament on Monday that would ban the Pride march by LGBTQ+ communities and impose fines on organisers and people attending the event which Budapest has held for three decades. Prime Minister Viktor Orban has criticised LGBTQ+ people and pledged to crack down on foreign funding of …
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LONDON (Reuters) – A “significant number” of countries are willing to provide peacekeeping troops in Ukraine in the event of a peace deal with Russia, a spokesperson for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday. Britain and France have spearheaded efforts to offer a peacekeeping plan for Ukraine after U.S. President Donald Trump began …
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By Krisztina Fenyo and Gergely Szakacs BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Food price controls launched by Prime Minister Viktor Orban went into effect in Hungary on Monday after inflation hit the highest level in the European Union, potentially denting the veteran leader’s hopes of re-election in 2026. Hungary has endured the worst inflationary surge in the 27-state …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili was sentenced on Monday to four-and-a-half more years in jail after being found guilty of illegally crossing the state border, Georgian news agency Interpress reported. According to the verdict, Saakashvili, who has been imprisoned since 2021 on charges that he says are politically-motivated, will be in prison …
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By Elizaveta Gladun (Reuters) – A hard-right candidate is seen leading in the first round of Romania’s presidential election rerun in May, according to a survey on Monday, in a vote that will determine whether Bucharest keeps to its pro-European course of recent years. However, the survey by AtlasIntel also showed the centrist mayor of …
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