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Portugal jobless rate falls to 6 pct in 2025
LISBON, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) — Portugal’s unemployment rate fell to 6 percent in 2025, the lowest annual level since 2011, according to data released Wednesday by the National Statistics Institute […]
UK police ask government to withhold some Mandelson documents
LONDON, Feb 4 (Reuters) – British police said on Wednesday they had asked the government not to release some documents relating to Peter Mandelson, the former UK ambassador to Washington, […]
Exclusive-EU rethinks climate diplomacy after bruising COP30 summit, document shows
BRUSSELS, Feb 4 – The European Union is mulling a new strategy in its diplomatic efforts on climate change after a bruising U.N. summit last year where it struggled to […]
Tunisian police arrest member of parliament who mocked president, two lawmakers say
TUNIS, Feb 4 (Reuters) – Tunisian police arrested lawmaker Ahmed Saidani on Wednesday, two of his colleagues said, in what appeared to be part of an escalating crackdown on critics […]
Italy probes 80-year-old over alleged Sarajevo ‘sniper tourism’
MILAN, Feb 4 (Reuters) – Milan prosecutors have placed an elderly Italian man under investigation as part of an investigation into alleged “sniper tourism” in Sarajevo in the 1990s, two […]
Man convicted of attempting to assassinate Trump sentenced to life
FORT PIERCE, Florida, Feb 4 (Reuters) – Ryan Routh, a man accused of hiding in the bushes of a Florida golf course with a semi-automatic rifle to try to assassinate […]
South Africa classifies drought, water shortages as national disaster
CAPE TOWN, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) — South Africa has classified drought conditions and water supply disruptions in parts of the country as a national disaster. Read full story Date: 5 […]
UNICEF calls for criminalization of AI content depicting child sex abuse
Feb 4 (Reuters) – The United Nations children’s agency UNICEF on Wednesday called for countries to criminalize the creation of AI-generated child sexual abuse content, saying it was alarmed by […]
US carries out strikes in Syria targeting Islamic States, military says
WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) – U.S. Central Command said on Wednesday that it carried out five strikes against multiple Islamic State targets in Syria, including a weapons storage facilities with […]
Hungarian court jails left-wing German activist for 8 years for assault
BUDAPEST, Feb 4 (Reuters) – A German citizen was sentenced to eight years in prison by a Hungarian court on Wednesday for assaulting suspected far-right sympathisers in Budapest in 2023, […]