Damage to an undersea gas pipeline and telecommunications cable connecting Finland and Estonia appears to have been caused by “external activity,” Finnish officials said Tuesday, adding that authorities were investigating. Finnish and Estonian gas system operators on Sunday said they noted an unusual drop in pressure in the Balticconnector pipeline …
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Poland faced a contentious and protracted transition of power on Monday as the president designated the outgoing prime minister to lead the new government in a caretaker capacity, angering a pro-European Union alliance with a strong majority in the new parliament. The chamber overwhelmingly chose a speaker from the alliance …
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Ireland’s government is newly pushing an anti-hate speech law in the wake of riots that came in response to the stabbing of a woman and three children outside a primary school in Dublin. “Language being proposed as law in Ireland means this could literally happen to you for having a …
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A British foster child who told police “Looks like I got my first kill” after he ran over the 60-year-old woman caring for him with her own car was sentenced Wednesday to two years in custody. The boy, who was 12 at the time, fatally struck Marcia Grant when she …
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The suspect arrested in the vicious stabbing in Paris that left a German national dead and two others injured steps from the Eiffel Towerwas released from prison in 2020 after plotting an Islamic terror attack, according to France’s interior minister. Speaking to reporters late Saturday, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin …
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A small twin-engine plane was forced to make an emergency landing Monday in the southern Paris suburbs, France’s civil aviation safety agency said. French media said the aircraft landed near a populated area in the town of Villejuif. FRENCH MINISTER WARNS COUNTRY ‘DURABLY UNDER THREAT FROM ISLAMIST TERRORISM’ AFTER PARIS …
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The son of Somalia’s president testified at an Istanbul court on Friday about the death of a motorcycle courier in the city, Turkish media reported. An arrest warrant had been issued for Mohammed Hassan Sheikh Mohamud after a diplomatic car he was driving allegedly hit Yunus Emre Gocer, 38, on …
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Greece seems to have edged back from the financial abyss…again. On the eve of a large tranche of debt coming due Wednesday, the European Union has handed over the equivalent of 18 million dollars in bail-out money. Plus IMF help should tide over the troubled Greek government for now. “The …
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Newly declassified British intelligence files have revealed the identity of a spy who passed military secrets to the Soviet Union during World War II. The files, which were released on Friday by the British internal security service MI5, reveal that author and journalist Cedric Belfrage passed highly sensitive information to …
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BERLIN – At least one person died when two small planes collided in the air and crashed at an airshow in northern Switzerland on Sunday, police said. The two planes were part of a formation of three and they crashed just before 11:30 local time after they touched each other …
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