Kyrgyzstan tells citizens to temporarily avoid travel to Russia
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan's foreign ministry said on Thursday it was recommending its citizens to temporarily avoid travelling to Russia, becoming the second Central Asian nation to do so after Tajikistan issued similar advice last weekend. Rus...
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EU extends subsidy allowances to end-2024 to help farmers
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will extend subsidy allowances by six months until the end of 2024 to support the region's agricultural sector following protests from farmers seeking better pay and working conditions. Farmers across Europe ...
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Polish President submits law to step up defence preparation
WARSAW (Reuters) - President Andrzej Duda has submitted to parliament a draft bill aimed at increasing Poland's defence readiness, citing new forms of threat from Russia, the National Security Bureau (BBN) said on Thursday. Under the proposal, the ...
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Why Palestinians can count on American students but not Arab allies to protest
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Maya Gebeily CAIRO/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Palestinians may be gratified to see American university campuses erupt in outrage over Israel's offensive in Gaza, but some in the embattled enclave are also wondering why no similar p...
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Italy seeks compensation for EU firms hit by Russian sanctions
ROME (Reuters) - The Italian government is working with the European Union to ensure that the bloc's firms hit by Russian sanctions are compensated for the damage they have suffered, it said on Thursday. Russia has placed the assets of a handful of...
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Finland army chief urges Europe to be prepared for Russia testing unity
By Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's new armed forces chief said Russia was unlikely to test NATO's mutual defence clause by attacking a NATO member state in the coming years, but may well continue what he said were hybrid attacks such a...
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Ukraine war not likely to end anytime soon, says top US spy
By Jonathan Landay and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin sees domestic and international developments trending in his favor and likely will press aggressive tactics in Ukraine, but the war is unlikely to end anytim...
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Turkey's Erdogan criticises U.S. crackdown on college protests
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan waded into the debate over U.S. college campus protests on Thursday, saying authorities were displaying "cruelty" in clamping down on pro-Palestinian students and academics. Demonstrations have sp...
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Exclusive-Russia is shipping oil to North Korea above UN mandated levels
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia has been quietly shipping refined petroleum to North Korea at levels that appear to violate the mandates of the United Nations Security Council, a U.S. official said on Thursday, adding the U.S. is pla...
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Biden thinks he can flip North Carolina, polls show a rough road
By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) - Since 1968, North Carolina has backed only two Democrats for president: Jimmy Carter in 1976 and Barack Obama in 2008. President Joe Biden visits the southeastern state on Thursday for the third time this year, bettin...
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California police flatten pro-Palestinian camp at UCLA, arrest protesters
By Lisa Richwine and Omar Younis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hundreds of helmeted police swarmed the site of a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of California at Los Angeles early on Thursday, arresting defiant demonstrators and dismantling the...
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Britain's Cameron, in Kyiv, promises Ukraine aid for 'as long as it takes'
By Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary David Cameron promised three billion pounds ($3.74 billion) of annual military aid for Ukraine for "as long as it takes" on Thursday, adding that London had no objection to the weapons being ...
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European court backs Italy in Greek statue dispute with Getty Museum
ROME (Reuters) - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ruled in favour of Italy's long-standing demand that the Getty Villa Museum in the United States return an ancient Greek statue which Rome claims was smuggled out of the country...
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Convicted leader of Greek far-right Golden Dawn party released on parole
ATHENS (Reuters) - The convicted leader and founder of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party, Nikos Mihaloliakos, has been released from prison on parole, a Greek police source and state television ERT said on Thursday. Mihaloliakos, 66, and other m...
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Xi's trip to Europe may lay bare West's divisions over China strategy
By Laurie Chen and Michel Rose BEIJING/PARIS (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping heads to Europe for the first time in five years next week in a visit that may lay bare European divisions over trade with Beijing and how the continent positions...
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India deports Myanmar refugees who fled 2021 coup
By Tora Agarwala GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - India on Thursday deported the first group of Myanmar refugees who had sought shelter after a 2021 military coup, a top state minister said, following weeks of efforts that were hampered by fighting betw...
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Residents fear for safety as Indonesia's Mount Ruang volcano erupts
TAGULANDANG, Indonesia (Reuters) - Antelmus Paulus, 67, is in despair after the eruption on Tuesday of Indonesia's Ruang volcano rendered his home on Tagulandang island uninhabitable and prompted authorities to evacuate more than 12,000 people. Ant...
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Paris' Sciences Po school rejects protesters' demand to review ties with Israel
PARIS (Reuters) - Paris' Sciences Po university has rejected demands by protesters to set up a working group to review its relations with Israeli universities, its interim director Jean Basseres told reporters on Thursday, following a townhall with...
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Awaiting US aid, Ukraine's gunners fire sparingly at advancing Russians
By Dan Peleschuk DONETSK REGION, Ukraine (Reuters) - The soldiers manning a U.S.-supplied M777 howitzer close to the front in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region have seen the enemy advance in recent weeks, slowly but surely, and wish they could do mo...
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EU official calls Georgia's 'foreign agents' bill unacceptable
TBILISI (Reuters) - A senior European Union official warned the Georgian government on Thursday that its proposed legislation on "foreign agents" was unacceptable and would be an obstacle to the country's hopes of joining the EU if adopted in its c...
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Palestinian Embassy seeks temporary status for Gazans who entered Egypt during war
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Aidan Lewis CAIRO (Reuters) - The Palestinian Embassy in Egypt is seeking temporary residency permits for tens of thousands of people who have arrived from Gaza during the war between Israel and Hamas, which it says would e...
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Hungary's media-savvy newcomer aims to disrupt political status quo
By Anita Komuves BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Peter Magyar was taking selfies with supporters in front of a busy Budapest market hall one Saturday morning last month when he asked them to give him a minute. He took out his phone, started a live Facebook vi...
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Taiwan reports second Chinese 'combat patrol' in a week
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's defence ministry on Thursday said that China had carried out a "joint combat readiness patrol" near the island for the second time in a week. Over the past four years, China's military has significantly ramped up its act...
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Japan town blocks view of Mt Fuji at photo spot to stop crowds
By Akiko Okamoto FUJI-KAWAGUCHIKO, Japan (Reuters) - Officials in a Japanese town are erecting a 2.5-meter (8.2 ft) high barrier to block a view of Mount Fuji and obstruct a photo spot that has been attracting so many visitors they have become a nu...
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Guerrilla pseudo-state complicates the search for peace in Colombia
By Luis Jaime Acosta YARI PLAINS, Colombia (Reuters) - A group of children holding red, yellow and blue balloons - the colors of Colombia's flag - run to the playground of a newly-opened school built and paid for by the Estado Mayor Central (EMC) g...
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