(Reuters) -Israel has received the body of deceased hostage Meny Godard from Palestinian militants in Gaza via the Red Cross, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Thursday. Godard lived on a kibbutz near Gaza and was killed during the Hamas raid on Israel on October 7, 2023, and his body was taken to Gaza. …
OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada’s domestic spy agency this year foiled potentially lethal threats by Iran directed against people whom Tehran sees as enemies, the agency’s head said in a rare speech on Thursday. Dan Rogers, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, also said his agents had blocked attempts by Russia to illegally acquire Canadian goods …
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By Rachel More and Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s ruling parties have agreed to introduce a subsidised power price for energy-intensive industries until 2028 to reduce costs and boost Europe’s largest economy, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Thursday. German companies, including automakers and steelmakers, have long complained that high energy prices put them at a …
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By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Thursday designated four entities in Germany, Italy and Greece as global terrorists, accusing them of being “violent Antifa groups” as President Donald Trump takes aim at left-wing groups. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement he had designated German-based Antifa Ost as “Specially Designated …
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(Reuters) -Donald Trump’s legal team said on Thursday the U.S. president has not yet filed a lawsuit against the BBC over the broadcaster’s editing of a speech he made in 2021 on the day his supporters overran the Capitol. On Sunday, Trump sent a letter to the BBC threatening legal action against the broadcaster, which …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s coalition partners announced a compromise on Thursday over new rules on military service, a key element in a wider drive to rebuild the country’s shrunken armed forces. The model agreed by Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats would see a hybrid system built around voluntary service with the option …
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By Andrea Shalal and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The International Monetary Fund will soon begin a staff mission to Ukraine to discuss its financing needs and a potential new lending program, spokesperson Julie Kozack said on Thursday, underscoring the need for continued anti-corruption efforts in the war-torn country. Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko on Thursday …
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By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) -Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday vowed to relaunch a plan to detain migrants in Albania, a flagship initiative of her conservative government that has been blocked by judges. Italy and Albania signed a protocol in 2023 to take migrants caught at sea to Albania and screen their asylum …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that he needed to ensure that young men from Ukraine do not come to Germany in large numbers, in what he said was a “lengthy” phone conversation the two held on Thursday. “They are needed there,” Merz told a trade congress in Berlin. European …
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ANKARA (Reuters) -President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that Turkey believes the most realistic way to resolve political deadlock over Cyprus is to have two states on the ethnically-split island. Erdogan was speaking alongside Tufan Erhurman, the newly-elected Turkish Cypriot president who has pledged to explore a federal solution – long supported by the United …
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