6+ day, 11+ hour ago  (221+ words) April 24 (Reuters) " The European Union has formed, along with financial institution partners, the Global Green Bond Initiative Fund which "aims to mobilise up to 20 "billion euros ($23. 43 billion) of private capital for sustainable infrastructure projects in low- and middle-income countries. " The…...

1+ day, 12+ min ago  (252+ words) BRUSSELS, April 29 (Reuters) " China will take countermeasures against the European Union and companies if substantial changes are not made to the "EU's proposed "Buy European" act and revised cybersecurity rules, "a Chinese diplomat told reporters on Wednesday. China's Commerce Ministry…...

5+ hour, 32+ min ago  (41+ words) MADRID, April 30 (Reuters) - The wife of Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has filed a legal complaint against a far-right political campaigner and social media influencer for alleged assault "on Wednesday in a cafe in Madrid where he ‌confronted he. .....

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (501+ words) By Johan Ahlander and Tom Little ORNSKOLDSVIK, Sweden, April 29 (Reuters) " The war in Ukraine has turned Sweden's defence industry into one of Europe's fastest-growing weapons hubs, a shift visible nowhere more clearly than in the tiny northern town of Ornskoldsvik,…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (232+ words) LONDON, April 28 (Reuters) " Police said on Tuesday they were investigating suspected arson at a memorial wall in a part of "north London that is home to "a large Jewish community, amid a recent spate of such incidents in the British…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (568+ words) By Karol Badohal and Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk WARSAW, April 28 (Reuters) " Belarus has released Andrzej Poczobut, a Polish-Belarusian journalist and activist, as part of a prisoner exchange at the border with Poland, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday. Poland in…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (321+ words) BRUSSELS, April 29 (Reuters) " EU countries and European Parliament lawmakers failed to reach a deal on watered-down landmark artificial intelligence rules after 12 hours of "negotiations on Tuesday and will resume talks next month. The "changes to the AI Act, which entered…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (447+ words) ROME, April 28 (Reuters) " Italian magistrates said on Tuesday they had opened urgent checks into whether Nicole Minetti, an ally of late Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, lied to secure a presidential pardon for a conviction over a "sex-party scandal. The case…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (125+ words) VILNIUS, April 27 (Reuters) - Lithuania has charged "13 "people with two attempted murders in Vilnius "linked "to "Russia's GRU "military intelligence agency, the chief of the "Baltic country's criminal "police, "Saulius Briginas, "said on "Monday. The. .. Lithuania charges 13 people with attempted murders…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (157+ words) HELSINKI, April 28 (Reuters) " Some U. S. defence equipment deliveries to Europe are being delayed "because of the war "in the Middle East, the presidents of Finland and Estonia said on Tuesday. " Finnish President Alexander Stubb said "some "U. S. stock is "being delivered elsewhere…...