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Venezuela's Machado says Spanish PM's leftist summit reason for not meeting him
5+ hour, 38+ min ago (356+ words) MADRID, April 18 (Reuters) " Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said on Saturday she declined a meeting with Spain's prime minister during her visit because he was hosting a "summit of progressive leaders in Barcelona. Machado, a right-wing liberal and "Nobel…...
Motor racing-Silverstone Pop-Up Hotel offers "immersive" F1 with pool and palm trees
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (584+ words) LONDON, April 14 (Reuters) " A Pop-Up Hotel famed for catering for celebrities and rock stars at the Glastonbury Festival is making its British Grand Prix offering "fully immersive" by adding a trackside swimming pool and palm trees to the experience. What…...
Spanish Premier, China's Xi pledge closer ties amid "crumbling" international order
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (107+ words) BEIJING, April 14 (Reuters) - Chinese' "President "Xi Jinping met Spanish Prime "Minister "Pedro "Sanchez "in Beijing on Tuesday, with "both leaders "pledging "to deepen "cooperation and "safeguard global "peace and development, amid "what Xi called a. .. Spanish Premier, China's Xi pledge closer…...
Spanish premier Sanchez heads for fourth China visit, risks annoying Trump
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (564+ words) Spain has been one of Europe's loudest proponents of expanding trade and treating China as "a strategic ally rather than the economic and geopolitical rival that Trump sees it as. The repeat visit "highlights Sanchez's determination not to align himself…...
Israel reprimands Spain over blowing up of Netanyahu effigy
6+ day, 20+ hour ago (360+ words) MADRID, April 11 (Reuters) " Israel said on Saturday it had reprimanded Spain's most senior diplomat in Tel Aviv over the blowing up of a giant effigy of Prime Minister Benjamin "Netanyahu in a Spanish town this week. The seven-metre (23-foot) figure…...
Spain condemns Israeli attacks on Lebanon, reopens Tehran embassy
1+ week, 2+ day ago (178+ words) MADRID, April 9 (Reuters) " Spain's Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares on Thursday accused Israel of violating "international law and a newly "brokered two-week ceasefire in the Middle East by carrying out airstrikes on Lebanon on Wednesday. Spain has emerged as one…...
Italy rules out sending ships to patrol Hormuz Strait without U. N. mandate
1+ week, 3+ day ago (314+ words) ROME, April 8 (Reuters) " Italy will not send any ships to help police the Hormuz Strait area following a ceasefire between the United States and "Iran unless it is authorised by the United Nations, "Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said on…...
Greece expected to announce social media ban for children under 15
1+ week, 3+ day ago (127+ words) April 8 (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos "Mitsotakis "is expected on Wednesday to announce a "ban "on "access to "social media for children under the age "of 15, according "to "a government "briefing. Slovenia, Britain, Austria "and Spain have. .. Greece expected to…...
Train derails in Russia, injuring seven people
2+ week, 1+ day ago (104+ words) MOSCOW, April 3 (Reuters) - Seven "people "were injured when a "passenger "train "carrying 412 "people derailed in Russia's Ulyanovsk "region some "900 "kilometres (559 "miles) from "Moscow, Russian officials "said on Friday. It "was not immediately cl. .. Train derails in Russia, injuring seven people MOSCOW,…...
France launches 12 GW of renewable tenders, champions "Made in Europe" initiative
2+ week, 2+ day ago (340+ words) PARIS, April 2 (Reuters) " France announced tenders for seven offshore wind projects totalling 10 gigawatts on Thursday as well as smaller solar and onshore wind tenders, adding the country will favour homegrown technologies "in its bid to achieve energy sovereignty. The tenders…...