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By Mike Ives WASHINGTON - David Sassoli, the president of the European Parliament, died Tuesday (11) in Italy, his spokesman and the parliament’s office in Washington said. He was 65. The office said in a Twitter post that Sassoli had…
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BERLIN - Angela Merkel's 16-year career as German chancellor came to an end on Wednesday (8) as she handed over to her successor Olaf Scholz at the chancellery in Berlin. "Take ownership of this house and work for the best of our…
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By Anton Troianovski MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin of Russia demanded “legal guarantees” Wednesday (Dec 1) that the NATO alliance would never expand eastward, ratcheting up the stakes as the West scrambled to respond to Russia’s…
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By Camille Bas-Wohlert COPENHAGEN - Europe remains "in the firm grip" of Covid and the continent's death toll could top 2.2 million this winter if current trends continue, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Tuesday (23). Europe…
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By Steven Erlanger BRUSSELS — Austria went into a major lockdown Monday (22) to try to break the strong fourth wave of COVID-19 spreading across Europe, while the German health minister, Jens Spahn, warned that by the end of this winter…
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By Andrew Higgins and Marc Santora BRUZGI, Belarus — He has spent 28 nights, each colder than the one before, choking on campfire smoke and despair on Europe’s doorstep. He made it across the razor wire into Poland three times, only to be…
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By Andrew Higgins and Marc Santora BRUZGI, Belarus — The tense standoff on the border between Poland and Belarus descended into a dangerous melee Tuesday (16) morning when Polish border guards used water cannons and tear gas to repel what…
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By Damien Simonart SOKOLKA - The European Union vowed Monday (15) to press ahead with sanctions targeting the regime of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, as migrants massed at the Polish border despite Minsk claiming it was trying to…
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By Dario Thuburn and Ola Cichowlas WARSAW/MOSCOW - Dozens of migrants have been detained after crossing into Poland from Belarus, Warsaw said on Sunday (14), warning of a possible larger breakthrough ahead of an EU meeting to widen…
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GLASGOW- Global climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, have ended with an agreement that the United Nations called both an “important step” and a “compromise”, but one that some activists dismissed as a “betrayal of the planet and the people”.…
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