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Wary of Russia, Denmark to spend $600 million on surveillance vessels

22 Apr 2025

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark will spend about 4 billion crowns ($614 million) on building and procuring 26 navy vessels for patrolling, oil spill response and surveillance of undersea cables, Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said on Tuesday. Countries bordering the Baltic Sea are on high alert after a number of outages of power cables, telecom …

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Mike Lynch’s sunken yacht to be pulled from Sicilian waters in May

22 Apr 2025

By Wladimir Pantaleone ROME (Reuters) – The superyacht that sank off Sicily last year, killing British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and six others, will be lifted out of the water next month after its mast is dismantled, people close to the matter said on Tuesday. The recovery of the British-flagged Bayesian, lying on its right …

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German army approaches big firms for NATO logistics aid, Handelsblatt daily says

22 Apr 2025

BERLIN (Reuters) – The German army has asked several large firms about whether they could provide logistics support if the country needs to deploy soldiers and equipment to NATO’s eastern border during a crisis, the Handelsblatt newspaper reported on Tuesday. Germany – a logistical hub due to its central location in Europe – has committed …

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PM Starmer welcomes UK top court ruling on biological sex in equality laws

22 Apr 2025

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said a landmark ruling that the legal definition of a woman under equality laws should be based on biological sex provided much-needed clarity and a clear position to underpin gender policies. The Supreme Court ruled on April 16 that single-sex services for women, such as refuges, hospital …

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Israeli strike south of Beirut kills commander in Sunni Islamist group, statement says

22 Apr 2025

BEIRUT (Reuters) -An Israeli drone strike south of the Lebanese capital killed a top commander from militant group Jama’a Islamiya on Tuesday, the group said, in an attack later confirmed by Israel. The Israeli military announced that it had killed Hussein Atawi, a “key figure in the Jama’a Islamiya with ties to Hamas,” the Israel …

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Heading for Vatican, cardinal recalls Pope Francis’ love for East Timor

22 Apr 2025

By Ananda Teresia DILI, East Timor (Reuters) – The first ever cardinal of Roman Catholic-majority East Timor had barely had time to process the news of Pope Francis’ death when he received the summons to attend the conclave that will elect the new pontiff half a world away in the Vatican. More than 97% of …

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Early voting in Australia election begins, PM Albanese’s party holds slender lead

22 Apr 2025

By Alasdair Pal SYDNEY (Reuters) – Early voting in the Australian election began on Tuesday, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s centre-left Labor party holding a slim lead over the conservative opposition coalition. A steady increase in early and postal voting means as many as half of eligible Australians will cast their ballots before the May …

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Russia recaptures monastery in Kursk from Ukraine, TASS says

22 Apr 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian forces have retaken a monastery in Russia’s Kursk region where Ukrainian troops had been holed up, state media reported on Tuesday. TASS news agency quoted a security source as saying Russian forces had captured the St. Nicholas Belogorsky monastery in the village of Gornal. A Russian military Telegram channel said Ukraine …

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Thai PM says US tariff negotiations postponed to review ‘issues’

22 Apr 2025

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand’s negotiations with Washington on steep trade tariffs were postponed because the United States has asked Bangkok to review important issues, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said on Tuesday.  A new meeting date was being scheduled, she said. The previous date for talks was April 23.  Thailand is among the Southeast Asian nations hardest …

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