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Tractors choke Spanish city streets as farmers protest EU policy
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish farmers drove tractors through city streets disrupting traffic on Thursday as they stepped up their protest against soaring costs, bureaucracy and cheap competition from out...
Feb 08, 2024
Israeli lawmakers approve amended war budget for 2024 in initial vote
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's parliament gave its initial approval to an amended 2024 state budget that adds tens of billions of shekels to fund Israel's war against Hamas, with higher defence spendi...
Feb 08, 2024
Twenty seven migrants missing after boat sinks off Tunisia, 13 dead
TUNIS (Reuters) - The bodies of 13 Sudanese migrants have been recovered and 27 others are missing after a boat sunk on Wednesday off the coast of Tunisia after setting off from Sfax, a Tunisian judic...
Feb 08, 2024
Top ally Bayrou says not joining French government, in blow for Macron
By Dominique Vidalon PARIS (Reuters) -Francois Bayrou, a key ally of French President Emmanuel Macron, said on Thursday he would not be joining the government, further complicating the task of Macron ...
Feb 08, 2024
Albania delays ratification of migrant deal with Italy
TIRANA (Reuters) - A vote in Albania's parliament to ratify a contested migrant deal with Italy was postponed on Thursday while lawmakers await documents from the Constitutional Court, which last week...
Feb 08, 2024
The special patrol protecting Spain's brown bears and wary villagers
By Juan Medina and Elena Rodriguez VILLABLINO, Spain (Reuters) - Spain's brown bears, once nearly extinct, stray into the mountain villages in the north of the country so often these days that the reg...
Feb 08, 2024
EU chief, Spain's PM to visit Mauritania amid growing migration flows
By Joan Faus MADRID (Reuters) - The head of the European Commission and Spain's prime minister will visit Mauritania on Thursday seeking to help the West African country curb irregular migration to Eu...
Feb 08, 2024
Azerbaijan President Aliyev re-elected with over 90% of vote - electoral commission
BAKU (Reuters) - Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has won re-election with more than 90% of the vote, the head of the oil and gas rich country's electoral commission said on Thursday, according to ...
Feb 08, 2024
Australians cheer law giving workers right to ignore after-hours work calls
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australians on Thursday cheered new proposed laws that give workers the right to ignore calls and messages from their bosses outside of work hours, but some business leaders slammed...
Feb 08, 2024
Iraq says US strikes pushing government to end U.S.-led coalition's mission
DUBAI (Reuters) - Repeated U.S. strikes against Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq are pushing the government to end the mission of the U.S.-led coalition in the country, the prime minister's military s...
Feb 08, 2024
