By Adrianna Ebert and Anna Banacka GDANSK, Poland (Reuters) – The European Union must act to lower energy prices and curb illegal migration, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Friday, as he laid out Warsaw’s priorities for its six-month presidency of the bloc during a visit by EU commissioners. Worries about the cost of …
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By Emily Rose HAIFA, Israel (Reuters) – One of the last things Oran Almog saw was broken glass, blood and bodies after a suicide bombing in Israel rendered him blind when he was just 10 years old and killed 21 people, including his brother, father and grandparents. The man who planned the attack – Islamic …
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By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) -Elon Musk’s social media platform X must release information enabling researchers to track the spread of election-swaying information on the network, a German court ruled on Friday. The Berlin district court issued its ruling in response to an urgent filing brought earlier this week by two civil rights groups who …
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By Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Defence spending by NATO’s European members and Canada was 20% higher in 2024 than the previous year, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Friday, ahead of a meeting in which they are likely to come under renewed U.S. pressure to spend more. U.S. President Donald Trump has stepped …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine, keen for continued U.S. support in its war with Russia, is looking forward to a visit this month by U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy for the region, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff said on Friday. Andriy Yermak said he had spoken to envoy Keith Kellogg about topics including the battlefield …
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By Horaci García and Nacho Doce BARCELONA (Reuters) – Barcelona’s city hall said on Friday it would buy an apartment block known as ‘Casa Orsola’ to prevent the eviction of several tenants, including a teacher who has become a symbol of Spain’s housing crisis and months of protests against over-tourism. City hall, along with a …
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PARIS (Reuters) – France dismissed on Friday Russia’s claims that the refusal of visas to Russian journalists was a reciprocal measure, after the Kremlin said France’s refusal to grant visas to two Russian journalists was discriminatory. But the French foreign ministry spokesman added that France would re-examine the situation regarding accreditation rights for legitimate Russian …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine believes that the work of the International Criminal Court in relation to Russian war crimes will continue after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed sanctions on the organisation, Kyiv’s foreign ministry said on Friday. Trump authorised economic and travel sanctions targeting people who work on International Criminal Court investigations of U.S. citizens …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia is resuming passenger flights to the capital of Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia for the first time in three decades, state media reported on Friday. A first test flight from Moscow to Sukhumi took place on Friday and regular flights are expected to begin in May, Russian news agency RIA said. …
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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia has made its first $500 million payment to the United States under the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal ahead of a meeting between their defence heads on Friday in Washington. Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles said the gesture showed Canberra is paying its way as a security partner. Marles …
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