(Reuters) -Swedish football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson, the first foreigner to lead the England national team, died with debts of over 3.8 million pounds ($4.64 million) following years of financial mismanagement. Eriksson, who died in August last year at the age of 76 having earlier announced that he was terminally ill with pancreatic cancer, left assets …
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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump now concede that the Ukraine war will take months or even longer to resolve, a sharp reality check on his biggest foreign policy promise – to strike a peace deal on his first day in the White House. Two Trump associates, who have discussed …
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By Lisa Richwine and Mike Blake LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Firefighters on Tuesday held the line against two massive wildfires that have ravaged parts of Los Angeles for the past week, even as desert winds and a parched landscape presented extremely hazardous conditions. Some 8,500 firefighters from at least seven states and two foreign countries prevented …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s military on Tuesday said it would retaliate against Ukraine after Kyiv attacked Russian regions by firing six U.S.-made ATACMS ballistic missiles, six UK-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles and launching one of the biggest drone attacks to date. After Ukraine first launched ATACMS and British Storm Shadow missiles into Russia last year, Moscow …
SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria’s Rosen Zhelyazkov, the candidate for prime minister of the largest parliamentary group, accepted the president’s invitation to form a government on Wednesday, following a snap election in October, the seventh in four years. Zhelyazkov, proposed as a PM-designate by the GERB-SDS group, presented President Rumen Radev with a ready-made cabinet. “Our …
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ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis nominated parliament speaker Constantine Tassoulas from his centre-right New Democracy party for the Greek presidency on Wednesday. President Katerina Sakellaropoulou’s five-year term expires in March and an initial parliamentary vote on the largely ceremonial post is expected on Jan. 25. To succeed her, a nominee needs the …
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ZURICH (Reuters) – A Swiss university is hosting an exhibition about its controversial award of an honorary doctorate to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, putting the links between his fascist government and Swiss society in the 1930s into the spotlight. “Doctor Mussolini- a delicate past” explores the background of the award granted to the fascist leader …
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ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama presented a gift of a scarf to his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni and serenaded her as she celebrated her 48th birthday on Wednesday. Rama, who is much taller than Meloni, went down on one knee to hand over the present and sang “tanti auguri” (happy birthday) …
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany has sufficient gas in storage to cover demand over the current 2024/25 winter season, despite the end of Russian gas exports to central Europe on Jan. 1, storage operators’ group INES said on Thursday. “Despite the complete loss of gas transport through Ukraine, a gas shortage is no longer expected,” INES …
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By Federico Maccioni ABU DHABI (Reuters) -Italy, Albania and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed on Wednesday a deal worth at least 1 billion euros ($1 billion) to build a subsea interconnection to import renewable energy across the Adriatic Sea. The plan will strengthen the existing power interconnections “stretching 430 km along the Adriatic seabed, …
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