(Refiles to fix dropped letter in second bullet point) By Kate Abnett, Simon Jessop and Lisandra Paraguassu BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -Talks at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil were disrupted on Thursday after a fire broke out in the venue, triggering an evacuation just as negotiators were hunkering down to try to land a deal to …
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VILNIUS (Reuters) -Lithuania’s Vilnius airport resumed operations on Thursday evening, after closing for more than an hour due to smugglers’ balloons again appearing on radar, Lithuania’s National Crisis Management Centre said. Last month, the Baltic republic closed its border crossings with Belarus in response to airspace disruptions by weather balloons coming in from Belarus, but …
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BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -A fire that forced an evacuation of the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belem on Thursday was under control, officials said, although it was unclear whether delegates would return immediately to continue negotiations. Brazil’s tourism minister told reporters at the venue that the fire was under control and no …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s decision to designate an alleged drug cartel that the U.S. links to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as a foreign terrorist organization provides the Pentagon with a range of new options, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. would designate the …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has received the draft of a U.S. plan to revive a diplomatic end to the war, and will discuss the “key points required to achieve peace” in the coming days with President Donald Trump, Zelenskiy’s office said on Thursday. “We are ready now, as before, to work constructively with …
MADRID (Reuters) -Spain’s Supreme Court said on Thursday it found the country’s chief prosecutor guilty of leaking confidential information about a case involving a leading opposition figure’s partner, in a ruling that could dent public confidence in the legal system. In an unprecedented decision against such a senior legal figure, Garcia Ortiz was disqualified from …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -Iranians living in Germany are facing increased harassment from Iranian security services, including threats and pressure to inform on other exiles, German authorities and an Iranian opposition group said. German intelligence services have regularly reported Iranian pressure and spying conducted against exiled groups in Germany and the main domestic intelligence agency, BfV, said …
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By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran has asked Saudi Arabia to persuade the U.S. to revive stalled nuclear talks, underlining Tehran’s anxiety over a possible repeat of Israeli airstrikes and its deepening economic woes, two regional sources with knowledge of the matter said. A day before Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to the …
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By Emilio Parodi MILAN (Reuters) -Italian prosecutors have placed luxury group Tod’s and three of its executives under investigation for suspected labour abuses and are seeking a temporary blanket ban on company advertising, judicial documents showed on Thursday. It is the first time an Italian fashion house and its managers have been directly targeted over …
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TERNOPIL, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ihor Cherepanskyi holds out little hope of seeing his great-grandmother alive. She is buried in the rubble of her apartment block in the western Ukrainian city of Ternopil which stands half-destroyed after a Russian drone and missile attack. The top floors of the building have collapsed leaving a huge hole in the …
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