By Jason Hovet and Jan Lopatka (Reuters) -A student killed a female teacher and classmate with a knife and injured another classmate at a high school in northern Slovakia on Thursday, officials said. Several emergency crews were dispatched to the school in Spisska Stara Ves, where two people were discovered dead and a third was …
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By Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) – Planned Russian military reforms that would increase Moscow’s troop numbers by 30% are a threat to NATO and should be met with vigilance, the chief of Finland’s military intelligence service Pekka Turunen said on Thursday. Finland, which shares the European Union’s longest border with Russia, joined the Western military …
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PARIS (Reuters) – France plans to hold a conference on Syria in Paris on Feb. 13, the French presidency said in a statement on Thursday. Following a call with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Macron’s office said the two leaders had discussed the situation in Syria. “The two heads of state reiterated their commitment to …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A last-minute glitch surfaced on Thursday in the details of the Gaza ceasefire-for-hostages deal and U.S. envoys are working to resolve it, a U.S. official said. The dispute was over the identities of several prisoners that Hamas is demanding to be released, the official said. The official said the issue is expected …
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank’s President Christine Lagarde can move financial markets with a frown, while her predecessor, Mario Draghi, used a smile to reinforce his message, a new study has found. Traders are known to hang on to central bankers’ every word for cues on the direction of interest rates. But an …
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By Lucien Libert CHAOURCE, France (Reuters) -A wild boar adopted by a French horse breeder can remain with her owner, a court ruled on Thursday, after threats by authorities to remove and even euthanise her triggered a storm of protest. Found as a tiny piglet near garbage bins outside the horse farm of Elodie Cappe …
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania’s coalition government approved on Thursday a re-run of a two-round presidential election on May 4 and May 18 as previously agreed, and tightened campaign rules for big social media platforms including TikTok. The European Union and NATO state which borders Ukraine was plunged into institutional chaos last year when Calin Georgescu, …
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KYIV (Reuters) -A major Russian gunpowder factory in the Tambov region was attacked, a Ukrainian official said on Thursday, without directly claiming Ukrainian responsibility or specifying the consequences of the attack. “The enterprise is one of the main suppliers of explosive materials for the army of the Russian Federation,” Andriy Kovalenko, the head of Ukraine’s …
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HELSINKI (Reuters) -The Eagle S tanker seized by Finnish authorities on suspicion of ripping up subsea cables will not face a separate criminal investigation into whether its fuel cargo violates sanctions imposed on Russia, the Customs Office said on Thursday. Police seized the UAE-owned tanker last month on suspicion of damaging a Finnish-Estonian power line …
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KYIV (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a landmark 100-year partnership agreement on Thursday to deepen security ties and strengthen their countries’ relationship. “Today is a truly historic day, our relationship is closer than ever,” Zelenskiy told media after the signing. (Reporting by Olena Harmash, Editing by William …
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