By Angelo Amante and Paolo Chiriatti ROME (Reuters) – A Rome court on Friday ordered a group of migrants detained in camps built in Albania to be transferred to Italy, sources said, dealing a fresh blow to a plan by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to curb irregular sea arrivals. The decision involved 43 migrants from …
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By James Mackenzie JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Hamas said on Friday it would free the father of the youngest hostages seized in its Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel and two others including a dual U.S. citizen and a dual French citizen in the next exchange of Gaza hostages for Palestinian prisoners. Yarden Bibas, Keith Siegel …
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. Palestinian relief agency said its humanitarian work across the occupied territories and Gaza was still ongoing on Friday despite an Israeli ban that took effect a day before and what it described as hostility towards its staff. An Israeli law adopted in October bans operations by UNRWA (United …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Luis Rubiales, former president of the Spanish soccer federation (RFEF), is going on trial accused of kissing player Jenni Hermoso during the 2023 women’s World Cup trophy presentation without her consent. Here is background to the case: WHO IS HE? Rubiales, 47, was a defender with several lower league clubs in Spain …
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HELSINKI (Reuters) – A Swedish prosecutor said on Friday he had decided to release from detention five suspects who were held over the killing on Wednesday of an anti-Islam campaigner. Salwan Momika, 38, an Iraqi refugee who had burned the Koran in public on several occasions, was shot dead in a house in Sodertalje town …
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By Thomas Escritt and Christian Kraemer BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s parliament rejected on Friday an opposition draft law on tightening immigration policy, averting the prospect of a law passing for the first time in modern German history thanks to the backing of the far-right. On Wednesday the Bundestag lower house passed a non-binding motion on migration …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Firefighters have extinguished a blaze that had burned for two days at a petrochemicals plant in Russia’s Nizhny Novogorod region struck by Ukrainian drones on Wednesday, state news agency TASS cited emergency services as saying on Friday. TASS quoted the local emergencies ministry as saying that the “open fire” had been “liquidated”. …
By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) – France rejected criticism from new U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio that it lagged in defence, saying it met NATO’s target to spend 2% of GDP on its military, was on course to double spending by 2030, and fields forces capable of major missions abroad. U.S. President Donald Trump …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s foreign ministry on Friday said it “strongly discouraged” citizens from travelling to Russia because of an increase in drone attacks on parts of the country in recent weeks and months, including the Moscow metropolitan area. Drone attacks have so far caused limited material damage and the defence system around Moscow had …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s special operations forces have not seen North Korean troops on the battlefield in Russia’s Kursk region for around three weeks, suggesting they have been forced to withdraw after taking heavy losses, a military spokesperson said on Friday. Ukrainian and Western assessments say that some 11,000 troops from Russia’s ally North Korea …
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