BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday called on members of his Social Democratic party (SPD) to back the country’s new ruling coalition, adding promises made during the election campaign now had to translate into concrete action. Speaking at a virtual convention of the SPD at which the party’s new leadership was elected, …
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By Elizabeth Pineau and Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) – The conservative candidate who has emerged as Emmanuel Macron’s most serious challenger for next year’s presidential election kicked off her campaign on Saturday by announcing she would resist German calls for a federal European superstate. Valerie Pecresse, who has described herself as “1/3 Thatcher, 2/3 Merkel”, …
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LIVERPOOL, England (Reuters) – The United States will send its top diplomat for Europe to Russia and Ukraine to discuss Russia’s troop build up and reiterate U.S. commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty, the State Department said on Saturday. “Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Dr. Karen Donfried will travel to Kyiv, Ukraine …
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BELGRADE (Reuters) – Hundreds of people in Serbia braved sleet and cold weather to block roads across the country for the third straight weekend on Saturday to protest government plans to allow Rio Tinto’s open a lithium mine. To bolster economic growth, Serbia’s government has offered mineral resources to foreign investors including China’s Zijin copper …
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By Stephen Grey GASHENA, Ethiopia (Reuters) – In a roadside village shattered by one of Africa’s bloodiest current conflicts, a donkey and its young, turbaned master tiptoe past an unexploded shell rusting by the blasted remnants of a tank, its turret and tracks tossed sideways. Ethiopian soldiers said the tank’s crew had been fighting for …
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Guatemala urged the United States on Friday to invest in the country and elsewhere in Central America to boost development, and called for a crackdown on people-smuggling gangs after dozens of migrants died in a truck crash in Mexico. Officials from Guatemala and Mexico pledged to tackle international people-smuggling networks they …
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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken agreed on Saturday on the need to fortify their countries’ alliance amid a tougher regional security environment, a Japanese government official said. Hayashi and Blinken held talks on the sidelines of a meeting of Group of Seven (G7) foreign ministers in …
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(Reuters) – A top Iranian military official warned on Saturday of a “heavy price” for aggressors, state media said, after a report of U.S. and Israeli plans for possible military drills to prepare for strikes against Iran’s nuclear sites if diplomacy fails. “Providing conditions for military commanders to test Iranian missiles with real targets will …
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s election commission said on Saturday it would not publish a list of presidential candidates until after it settles some legal issues, leaving almost no time to hold the vote as planned on Dec. 24. While most Libyan and foreign figures involved in the process have continued to publicly call for the …
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(Reuters) – Dubai welcomed 4.88 million visitors in the period January- October 2021, its Department of Economy and Tourism (DET) said on Saturday, adding that international visitors in the month of October alone had exceeded one million. The figures reflect improving momentum and stability in a hospitality industry battered by the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting …
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