AMMAN (Reuters) -Jordan’s King Abdullah and Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa agreed on Wednesday to work together to secure their common border against arms and drug trafficking, officials said. At a meeting with Sharaa in Amman, the Jordanian monarch also condemned Israel’s strikes late on Tuesday on southern Damascus and in southern Syria near the …
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) – The Romanian parliament adopted a bill on Wednesday allowing the army to shoot down drones illegally breaching Romanian airspace, based on threat levels and risks to human life and property. European Union and NATO state Romania, which shares a 650-km (400-mile) border with Ukraine, has had Russian drone fragments repeatedly fall onto its territory …
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By Madeline Chambers and Matthias Williams BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) said on Wednesday they had agreed to start talks on a possible coalition with Friedrich Merz’s conservatives but stressed their support was not automatic and hit out at his negotiating style. The SPD met to elect new parliamentary party leader Lars Klingbeil …
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By Amir Cohen and Maayan Lubell NIR OZ, Israel (Reuters) – A few hours after Hamas said it would return the bodies of Israeli hostages Shiri Bibas and her two little children on Thursday, her sister-in-law said she had not given up hope of seeing them return home, alive. “I ask you not to eulogise …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Russia attacked Ukraine with nearly two hundred drones overnight, targeting mostly the Kyiv region and energy facilities in the east in strikes that killed two people, authorities said on Wednesday. Russia has stepped up drone strikes with attacks on Ukraine every night in recent weeks, and on Sunday the number of drones …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Police are on high alert ahead of Germany’s traditional carnival celebrations this week after social media connected to the Islamic State militant group called for attacks targeting revellers in Cologne and Nuremberg, said police spokespeople. Bild newspaper reported that a German-language propaganda site run by IS had published a computer-created collage image …
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By Dmitry Antonov and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that Moscow could not consider “any options” for European peacekeepers being sent to Ukraine and that the idea was aimed at fuelling the conflict and making it harder to de-escalate. French President Emmanuel Macron spoke in favour of …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission unveiled on Wednesday its Affordable Energy Action Plan, which aims to cut industrial and household bills by tens of billions of euros and speed up the decarbonisation of power markets. As previously reported by Reuters, the Commission aims to save Europeans 45 billion euros ($47.25 billion) in 2025 and …
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BELGRADE (Reuters) – Bosnian police arrested three people suspected of trafficking a group of children discovered in the northern town of Brcko, the police force in the town said in a statement on Wednesday. The children were found on Tuesday and taken to safety, the statement said. The three suspects were charged with human and child …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – The co-leader of Germany’s Social Democrats, Lars Klingbeil, said on Wednesday that his party was in talks with election winner Friedrich Merz and his conservatives about agreeing on a timetable for negotiations towards the creation of a government. “We are now in talks with the conservatives, Friedrich Merz and I have agreed …
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