STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s government on Monday accused a Shi’ite Muslim mosque in Stockholm of being a platform for Iranian spying against Sweden and the Iranian diaspora. Sweden’s Minister for Social Affairs said on X that the Swedish Security Service assessed that the Imam Ali Islamic Center in Stockholm was used by Iran as a …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Greenland is not for sale, Danish Prime Minister Mette Fredriksen said on Monday, after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said last week that President Donald Trump’s interest in acquiring the island was “not a joke”. “Greenland is today a part of the kingdom of Denmark. It is part of our territory, and …
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DAMASCUS (Reuters) -A car bomb killed at least 20 people in the northern Syrian city of Manbij on Monday, the Syrian presidency said, marking the second attack there in three days and the country’s deadliest since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power in December. The presidency’s statement said it will hold the perpetrators of what …
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PARIS (Reuters) – French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said on Monday he was using special constitutional powers to pass the 2025 budget bill, a move likely to trigger a no-confidence vote that will decide whether his minority government survives. Bayrou is using a constitutional tool known as Article 49.3, which allows the minority government to …
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MADRID (Reuters) -The European Union must remain united and avoid being naive in the face of threats by U.S. President Donald Trump to levy tariffs on its products, Spanish Economy Minister Carlos Cuerpo said on Monday. Trump on Saturday ordered sweeping tariffs on goods from Mexico, Canada and China – the United States’ three biggest …
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By Krisztina Than and Thomas Escritt BUDAPEST/BERLIN (Reuters) – An endorsement from Elon Musk, 5 million euros in financial donations this year alone, and now an invitation to meet Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban: once isolated, the far-right Alternative for Germany has a growing number of friends. Orban, whose anti-immigration stance and calls for restoration …
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By Bart H. Meijer and Geert De Clercq BRUSSELS (Reuters) – New right-wing Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever said he wants to cool the European Union’s “regulatory fervour” to boost corporate competitiveness and that European Union defences should remain anchored within NATO. De Wever, the first Flemish nationalist to lead Belgium and a sharp …
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By Elvira Pollina, Cristiano Corvino and Claudia Greco CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (Reuters) – The town of Cortina d’Ampezzo, one of Italy’s most famous ski resorts, is gearing up to co-host the 2026 Winter Olympics, marking a return of the Games to one of its traditional European venues for the first time in two decades. As …
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -A Swedish court found an anti-Islam campaigner guilty on Monday of hate crimes involving staging public burnings of the Koran, in a ruling handed down five days after another man also being prosecuted over the incidents was shot dead. Salwan Najem, a 50-year-old Swedish citizen, was given a suspended sentence and fined 4,000 …
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By Rodrigo Garrido and Alexander Villegas VALPARAISO, Chile (Reuters) – Carlos Vidal is still shoveling rubble that used to be his home a year after the deadliest wildfires in Chile’s history tore through his neighborhood and the coastal cities of Valparaiso and Vina del Mar, killing 137 people. Vidal, 63, says he signed up to …
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