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August 24, 2019
Iranian tanker switches destination, heads to Turkey
ATHENS - An Iranian tanker at the center of a confrontation between Washington and Tehran has switched destination and is now heading to Turkey instead of southern Greece, data from real-time ship tracking website MarineTraffic showed on Saturday.The Adrian Darya, formerly called Grace 1, was released from detention off Gibraltar after a five-week standoff over whether it was carrying Iranian oil to Syria in violation of European Union sanctions in ...
August 24, 2019
Six EU nations agree to take 356 Ocean Viking migrants
MALTA - Six EU countries Friday agreed to take in 356 migrants stranded on a rescue ship in the Mediterranean after a two-week standoff again exposed the failure of European leaders to deal quickly with desperate people fleeing conflict and poverty in Africa.The Norwegian-flagged Ocean Viking, run by charities MSF and SOS Mediterranee, had been seeking a port after rescuing four boats of migrants off the Libyan coast between August ...
August 23, 2019
Macron spearheads pressure on Bolsonaro over Amazon fires
PARIS — France's Emmanuel Macron led a growing wave of international pressure on Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro over the fires raging in the Amazon rainforest on Friday, telling him Paris would block efforts to seal a major trade deal.With global leaders gearing up for the G7 summit, which opens on Saturday in the western French resort of Biarritz, Macron drew Bolsonaro's ire by saying the wildfires would be high on ...
August 23, 2019
Russia launches floating nuclear reactor in Arctic despite warnings
MOSCOW — Russia launched the world's first floating nuclear reactor, sending it on an epic journey across the Arctic on Friday, despite environmentalists warning of a "Chernobyl on ice."Loaded with nuclear fuel, the Akademik Lomonosov left the Arctic port of Murmansk to begin its 5,000 km voyage to Pevek in northeastern Siberia.Nuclear agency Rosatom says the reactor is a simpler alternative to building a conventional plant on ground that is ...
August 23, 2019
Swedish police release two men held over Copenhagen blast
STOCKHOLM — Swedish police released two men on Friday that were suspected to have been involved in an explosion outside the Danish Tax Agency in Copenhagen earlier this month.The two suspects, aged 22 and 27, were arrested on Wednesday."I cannot comment beyond that there were no reason to keep them detained," prosecutor Kristina Lindhoff Carleson said.She declined to say if the two men were still suspects.Swedish police still have one ...
August 23, 2019
Putin vows 'symmetric response' to US missile test
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he has ordered the military to prepare a "symmetric response" after Washington tested a formerly banned missile.Putin said he had ordered an analysis of "the level of threat for our country created by the actions of the US and to take comprehensive measures to prepare a symmetric response".The US Department of Defense said on Monday it had tested a type of ...
August 22, 2019
Too late for new Brexit deal, Macron tells Johnson
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron told Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday that there was not enough time to wholly rewrite Britain's Brexit divorce deal before an Oct. 31 deadline.Johnson met Macron at the Elysee Palace a day after talks in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who challenged Britain to come up with alternatives to the agreed safety net provision for the UK-Irish land border.More than three years ...
August 22, 2019
Syrian jailed for Germany knife killing that sparked far-right protests
BERLIN — A 24-year-old Syrian man was sentenced to nine and a half years in jail Thursday for a knife killing that sparked racist street violence and far-right protests in the eastern German city of Chemnitz.The court found that Alaa Sheikhi, together with an Iraqi man still at large, stabbed to death 35-year-old German Daniel Hillig in the early hours of Aug. 26 last year.The manslaughter conviction comes at a ...
August 22, 2019
Kosovo MPs dissolve parliament, paving way for snap poll
PRISTINA — Kosovo MPs voted on Thursday to dissolve parliament and trigger early elections, a move that will add new delays to the deadlocked dialogue with former foe Serbia.The vote comes after outgoing premier Ramush Haradinaj, a former commander of ethnic Albanian rebels who battled Serbia in the late 1990s, stepped down in July after he was summoned to a special court in The Hague, which is investigating crimes from ...
August 22, 2019
Italy's president wants quick deal on forging new govt
ROME — Italy's head of state wants political parties to reach a deal to form a new coalition government in the next few days if they want to avoid snap elections, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.The euro zone's third-largest economy is in political turmoil after its government, riven by months of infighting, collapsed this week, forcing Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to resign just as Rome was ...
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