MADRID (Reuters) -Spain’s Agriculture Ministry ordered on Thursday to immediately lock down all poultry due to the risk of bird flu, it said in a statement. The decision expands on measures announced last week, when Spain ordered poultry in designated high-risk areas to be kept indoors to curb the spread of bird flu. It follows …
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By Tom Sims FRANKFURT (Reuters) -For years, it was a common occurrence: Dutch bandits would drive to Germany and in the dead of night blow up ATMs, grab cash and speed back home on the Autobahn. Now, a crackdown is bearing fruit. ATM attacks have dropped to 115 so far this year, less than a …
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By Nathan Layne, Andy Sullivan and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -House Democrats on Wednesday released emails that they said raised new questions about President Donald Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein and how much he knew about Epstein’s abuse of underage girls, while the swearing-in of a new Democrat kicked off a fresh fight in Congress …
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CHISINAU (Reuters) -A new dispute underscored the split in Moldova’s Orthodox faith on Wednesday as the ex-Soviet state’s largest church rejected any notion that it was a “Russian church” while a rival church linked to Romania accused it of mass deception. More than 90% of Moldovans adhere to Orthodox Christianity in the country lying between …
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By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for the dismissal of two cabinet ministers on Wednesday amid a probe into an alleged $100 million corruption scheme involving a former associate that has fuelled fresh public anger at Kyiv’s wartime government. Anti-corruption authorities said this week they had detained five people and identified two …
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MADRID (Reuters) -Spain’s top prosecutor, Alvaro Garcia Ortiz, who is on trial for allegedly leaking confidential information about a tax fraud case, told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that he did not leak the information. The case has attracted intense political scrutiny as the tax fraud case involves Alberto Gonzalez Amador, who is the boyfriend …
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NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Canada (Reuters) -European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told Reuters on Wednesday that an energy corruption scandal in Ukraine was “extremely unfortunate” and it was important that Kyiv takes it seriously. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for the dismissal of two cabinet ministers on Wednesday amid a probe into an alleged $100 million corruption scheme …
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BERLIN/PARIS (Reuters) -France, Germany and Spain are set to resume high-level talks on the next phase of a major fighter project after delays caused by the recent political crisis in France, three people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. A ministerial meeting is planned for the week of November 24 as the three nations …
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By Jennifer Rigby and Ludwig Burger LONDON (Reuters) -The wild form of the virus behind polio has been detected in wastewater sampling in Germany, the nation’s main public health body told Reuters on Wednesday, in a setback for efforts to rid the world of the deadly disease. The findings come more than 30 years after …
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ROME (Reuters) -The European Union needs to adopt “strong and fast” rules against the invasion of cheap and unregulated products, Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti said on Wednesday. He also said the EU should bring forward to 2026, from 2028, the planned introduction of a levy on lower-value e-commerce parcels coming from outside the bloc. (Reporting …
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