(Reuters) – Brussels Airport said on Monday it had cancelled all flights departing on February 13 due to a nationwide strike. The airport said arrivals would also be impacted as ground crews and security staff join the walkout scheduled for Thursday in protest at the new government’s plans to reform pensions and the labour market. …
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(Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Monday appointed Howard Brodie as the U.S. ambassador to Finland, Trump said in a post on Truth Social. Brodie is the co-president and general counsel of Brodie Generational Capital Partners, an investment firm based in Pennsylvania. (Reporting by Brendan O’Brien in Chicago; Editing by Doina Chiacu)
By Dave Sherwood HAVANA (Reuters) – Some U.S.-funded media outlets that report on Cuba are seeking alternative sources of financing while the Trump administration pursues a plan to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), leaving their fate in limbo. The U.S. State Department has issued worldwide stop-work directives – now under court review …
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By Dmitry Antonov and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia warned on Monday that the outlook for extending the last remaining pillar of nuclear arms control between Moscow and Washington, the world’s two biggest nuclear powers, did not look promising and that the situation appeared to be deadlocked. The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or …
BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Romania’s outgoing centrist president, Klaus Iohannis, resigned on Monday as opposition hard-right parliamentary parties planned to have him impeached. The European Union and NATO member state, which borders Ukraine, was plunged into institutional chaos last year when little-known far-right NATO critic Calin Georgescu won the first round of a presidential election. After accusations …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will meet U.S. Vice President JD Vance in Paris on Tuesday during an AI summit, a spokesperson for the commission said on Monday. (Reporting by Bart Meijer, Charlotte Van Campenhout, Editing by Bernadette Baum)
KYIV (Reuters) -Overnight Russian drone attacks sparked a fire in Kyiv and injured a woman and damaged several houses in the northeastern city of Sumy, Ukrainian officials said on Monday. The Ukrainian military said on Monday that it had shot down 61 out of 83 drones with 22 more likely downed by electronic warfare. No …
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By Timour Azhari DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Western sanctions on Syria’s banking sector are preventing critical investments in the war-ravaged economy despite huge interest from Syrian and foreign investors since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the country’s investment chief said. “Sanctions have stopped everything. Right now, they are primarily on the Syrian people and are increasing …
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(Reuters) -A district in Russia’s Sakhalin region has been put on high alert after a Chinese cargo ship ran aground off the southwest coast of the Sakhalin Island, the governor of the region in Russia’s Far East said early on Sunday. No fuel spillage was recorded and there was no threat to the crew, but …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s national power grid operator Ukrenergo said on Monday it limits energy supplies to Ukrainian industry and businesses due to increased consumption in freezing weather and generation shortages after Russian missile strikes. The restrictions will be in place from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. (0400-0700 GMT), Ukrenergo said on the Telegram messenger. …
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