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Kremlin says French visa refusals for two more Russian journalists are discriminatory

7 Feb 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Friday that France’s refusal to grant visas to two journalists from Russian news outlet Izvestia amounted to discrimination and Russia’s Foreign Ministry accused Paris of unleashing a campaign of harrassment against Russian media. Izvestia said the pair had been refused visas to visit France to report on commemorations this …

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Greek PM says state on alert over Santorini quakes, urges calm

7 Feb 2025

SANTORINI, Greece (Reuters) -Greek authorities are monitoring increased seismic activity on the island of Santorini, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday, urging the public to remain calm and follow the advice of the civil protection service. Greece has declared a state of emergency on Santorini as hundreds of earthquakes have rattled the popular tourist …

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Hungary’s Orban says US funding to NGOs and media must be revealed

7 Feb 2025

By Krisztina Than and Anita Komuves BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday Hungary would take steps to ensure all aid funding coming from the United States to NGOs and media critical of the government is revealed, saying the time had come to “eliminate these foreign networks”. Orban, a nationalist and long-time ally …

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Swedish mass shooting victims include Christians who fled Syria

7 Feb 2025

By Johan Ahlander OREBRO, Sweden (Reuters) -Ten years ago, Salim Iskef fled Syria – where Islamic State militants had killed his father – for Sweden, only to be gunned down this week by an unemployed Swedish man with no apparent ideological motive. The 29-year-old victim was one of several members of Sweden’s Syriac-speaking community caught …

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UN nuclear chief says number of attacks on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has increased, TASS reports

7 Feb 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said on Friday that the number of attacks on the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine had increased, Russia’s TASS state news agency reported. Grossi was speaking after holding talks in Moscow with Alexei Likhachev, head of Russian nuclear corporation Rosatom. …

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Russian strike on Ukraine’s Sumy region kills 3, officials say

7 Feb 2025

KYIV (Reuters) – Three people were killed in a Russian guided bomb attack on Ukraine’s northeastern region of Sumy, Ukrainian authorities said on Friday. The attack late on Thursday with three guided aerial bombs destroyed a residential building in the village of Myropillya, the Prosecutor General’s office said in a statement. The village sits near …

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World food commodity prices fall in January as sugar, vegetable oils decline – FAO

7 Feb 2025

ROME (Reuters) – Global food commodity prices fell in January, led by sharp declines in sugar and vegetable oils, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Friday. The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in a basket of internationally traded food commodities, averaged 124.9 points in January against 127.0 in December. Despite …

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Russia designates Norwegian media outlet an ‘undesirable organisation’

7 Feb 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The office of Russia’s Prosecutor General said on Friday it had designated The Barents Observer, a Norwegian media outlet, as an “undesirable organisation”, a move which effectively bans it outright in Russia. The Prosecutor General accused the news outlet, which publishes in English and Russian, of disseminating information “with a pronounced anti-Russian …

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Latest gangland shooting in Brussels leaves one person dead

7 Feb 2025

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – One person died after a shooting in Brussels that was likely linked to clashes between rival drug gangs, the local prosecutor’s office said on Friday, highlighting rising crime in the Belgian capital city which also hosts the main EU institutions. “There was a shooting this morning in Anderlecht. One person died in …

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Trump says Israel would hand over Gaza after fighting is over, no US troops needed

7 Feb 2025

By James Mackenzie and Doina Chiacu JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday Israel would hand over Gaza to the United States after fighting was over and the enclave’s population was already resettled elsewhere, which he said meant no U.S. troops would be needed on the ground. A day after worldwide condemnation of …

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