(Reuters) – A Gaza ceasefire deal has been reached, an Axios reporter said on X on Wednesday, citing a U.S. official. The reporter, Barak Ravid, did not provide details. (Reporting by David Ljunggren; editing by Rami Ayyub)
By Charlotte Van Campenhout BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union cities are unlikely to meet stricter air quality and noise pollution targets in the coming years, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) said on Wednesday, warning that both issues remain significant health threats. With air quality standards soon to become tougher, cities will need to increase …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany has not found any further cases of foot-and-mouth disease, agriculture minister Cem Oezdemir said on Wednesday, adding that experts were working day and night to establish the source of the country’s first outbreak in decades. “The most important task now … is to ensure that we get this disease under control,” Oezdemir …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -Russia planned “acts of terrorism” in the air against Poland and other countries, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Warsaw. Security officials have said that parcels which exploded at logistics depots in Europe were part of a test run for a Russian plot to …
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DOHA (Reuters) – Qatar’s Foreign Ministry will hold a news conference on Wednesday in Doha where the country has been hosting talks towards a Gaza ceasefire deal, a senior Qatari official said. Earlier, an invitation by Qatar’s state news agency said the news conference would be hosted by Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al …
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ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss Defence Minister Viola Amherd will resign at the end of March, the Swiss Parliament said on Wednesday in a post on X, adding a new member of Switzerland’s cabinet would be elected in the spring session to replace her. “After more than 30 years in politics, more than 25 in an …
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s foreign and defence ministries said on Wednesday they would refocus their public communications away from Elon Musk’s X, with the defence department saying it had become increasingly “unhappy” with developments at the social media platform. Musk has been accused of meddling in European politics, with his interventions since September including a …
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By Simon Johnson FORSMARK, Sweden (Reuters) – Sweden started building a final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel on Wednesday, only the second such site in the world, where highly radioactive waste will be stored for 100,000 years. How to store deadly radioactive waste until it is safe is a question that has dogged the …
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By Barbara Erling, Yuliia Dysa and Jan Strupczewski WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland on Tuesday hailed progress in resolving a historical dispute with Ukraine and said Warsaw would work to speed its neighbour’s progress towards the European Union in talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy which also covered arms supplies. Although EU-member Poland has been one of Ukraine’s …
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By Lucy Papachristou (Reuters) – Giorgi Gakharia, a former prime minister of Georgia who now leads one of the country’s main opposition groups, was hospitalised after being severely beaten late on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for his party told Reuters. Ana Buchukuri said Gakharia had sustained injuries on his face and head during an assault by …
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