(Reuters) – Armenia and Azerbaijan will not deploy third-country forces along their border after the two sides sign a peace agreement, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Thursday. Officials in Yerevan and Baku said earlier they had agreed the text of a peace agreement to end more than three decades of conflict between their …
DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Syria kept a central role for Islamic law in a constitutional declaration issued on Thursday which guarantees women’s rights and freedom of expression during a five-year transitional period, according to a summary read on TV. The declaration is designed to serve as the foundation for the interim period being led by President Ahmed …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s foreign ministry on Thursday summoned the envoys of Britain, France and Germany over what it called a “misuse of the U.N. Security Council to hold a closed-door meeting” over Tehran’s nuclear programme, Iranian state media reported. Britain warned on Wednesday that it would trigger a return of U.N. sanctions on Iran, …
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ZURICH (Reuters) – The Swiss upper house of parliament on Thursday backed a motion to intensify border controls in order to reduce illegal immigration and contain cross-border crime. The proposal, which had already passed the lower house, urged the government to step up controls in the short and medium term, and be more vigorous in …
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ROME (Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 4.4 hit near the southern Italian city of Naples early on Thursday, damaging buildings and causing locals to flee into the streets. The earthquake occurred at 1:25 a.m. (0025 GMT) with its epicentre near the coastal town of Pozzuoli, located west of Naples, according to Italy’s National Institute …
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By Catarina Demony and Marissa Davison LONDON (Reuters) – With tears in their eyes, mothers of children who died in Brazil’s worst environmental disaster – the 2015 Mariana dam collapse – demanded justice for their loved ones on Thursday as submissions in their London lawsuit came to an end. Nineteen people were killed when the …
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ROME (Reuters) – Italy has installed Starlink antennas in four embassies around the world to test their functionality, but has not signed a national security contract with Elon Musk’s company, a minister said on Thursday. Italy’s right-wing administration is aiming to guarantee encrypted communications between the government, diplomats and defence officials operating in risky areas …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araqchi has not ruled out talks with Washington, but says they can only take place if both countries are on “equal terms,” an Iranian state-run newspaper reported on Thursday. Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump said he had sent a letter to Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei …
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German policymakers must decide how to refill gas storage caverns for the coming winter, storage operators’ group INES said on Thursday, or there could be shortfalls. The task is complicated by ongoing talks over the formation of a new government, and by the fact that summer prices are currently higher than winter …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – A senior Greens legislator said there would still be a sufficient, albeit different, majority to reform Germany’s debt brake once the newly elected parliament had been seated, in an indication they might continue to block conservative chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz’s plan for reform. Merz and the Social Democrats, who are in talks to …
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