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BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania is committed to ensuring its May presidential vote re-run is fair and transparent, after its election result in December was cancelled, interim President Ilie Bolojan told a U.S. Congress delegation on Wednesday. The European Union and NATO member will repeat its two-round election on May 4 and 18 after the Constitutional …

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party accused the head of the domestic intelligence organization on Tuesday of turning parts of the service into “a private militia of the Deep State” and called for him to go, amid a deepening political crisis around the agency. The accusation against Shin Bet head Ronen …

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By Giuseppe Fonte ROME (Reuters) – U.S. policy on stablecoins offers European citizens an attractive payment method for cross-border transactions which should trigger more concern than trade tariffs, Italy’s economy minister said on Tuesday. Addressing an event in Milan on asset management, Giancarlo Giorgetti said European Union authorities should adopt further steps to boost the …

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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – A Swedish probe found no conclusive evidence to suggest that a Chinese ship had deliberately dragged its anchor to damage two Baltic Sea cables, Sweden’s Accident Investigation Authority said on Tuesday, though a separate investigation remains under way. The Yi Peng 3 bulk carrier has been under investigation for dragging its anchor …

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By Nelson Renteria and Sarah Kinosian SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – Lawyers challenging the incarceration in El Salvador of more than 200 Venezuelans deported by the U.S. said the Salvadoran government is denying the prisoners access to attorneys and contact with the outside world. Under an agreement with the Salvadoran government, President Donald Trump’s administration in …

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ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish authorities arrested 234 people in an operation coordinated with four European countries against criminal drug-trafficking organisations, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Tuesday. “We have detained 234 high-level crime organisation leaders, 225 from inside Turkey and nine from abroad,” Yerlikaya said, adding 10 of the suspects were sought with Interpol red …

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