ATHENS, Greece – Several opinion polls released over the weekend, 3 weeks ahead of Greece’s snap election, show a tight race and no overall majority in a Parliament even more fractured than the previous one. A total of six opinion polls were released Saturday and Sunday. All show the left-wing …
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Britain’s top diplomat wriggled off the hook recently after getting in trouble over a fishing trip with U.S. Vice President JD Vance – but it wasn’t over anything the politicians discussed. U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy was given a written warning by the country’s Environment Agency for fishing without a …
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A new poll shows that a shocking number of French citizens support banning people from flying more than four times in their lives due to climate change. A poll from research firm Consumer Science and Analytics Institute (CSA) found that 41% of citizens would support such a limit. That number …
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The leaders of United Nations agencies and humanitarian organizations declared “enough is enough” and demanded an immediate cease-fire in Gaza as the reported Palestinian death toll climbed to 10,000. In a joint statement issued Sunday night, the U.N. leaders said that the slaughter of more than 1,400 people in Israel …
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JERUSALEM – Israel says it has foiled a ring that smuggled iron, electronic equipment and other prohibited materials to Hamas to rebuild its infrastructure following last year’s war. Israel’s internal security agency says Hamas paid the Israeli companies at least $375,000 to store and deliver the goods, which entered through …
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BUCHAREST, Romania – Romania has begun transporting natural gas to Moldova, as the former Soviet republic moves toward the European Union and becomes less dependent on Russia. “It is the first time that gas goes from West to East,” said Moldova Foreign Minister Natalia Gherman during a visit to Bucharest. …
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UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. political chief says Ukraine still hasn’t submitted a formal request for a U.N. peacekeeping force to be stationed in eastern regions where government forces are battling Russian-backed separatists. Jeffrey Feltman briefed the U.N. Security Council on the crisis Friday and noted Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko’s …
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WARSAW, Poland – Education authorities in southwestern Poland are looking into allegations that a primary school teacher taped small children’s mouths shut to silence them. A suspicious mother secretly recorded the teacher’s classes. In the voice recordings published by TVN24, a woman is heard threatening that she will again put …
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MADRID – The Interior Ministry says police have arrested eight suspected members of a jihadi terror cell in raids across the country. A ministry statement Friday said the eight allegedly urged attacks to be carried out in Spain and selected people to send to fight for Islamic groups in Iraq …
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BERLIN – A union representing Lufthansa pilots has called a one-day strike at the German airline’s short-haul and middle-distance operations on Wednesday — the latest in a string of walkouts. The Vereinigung Cockpit union has hit various Lufthansa units with around a dozen short-term walkouts over recent months. The dispute …
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