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By Charlotte Van Campenhout and Amina Ismail BRUSSELS, April 8 (Reuters) – Smugglers are increasingly using Belgium’s shoreline to transport migrants to Britain since tighter controls began along the French coast, authorities say. Though numbers remain comparatively small, there have been 17 such departures this year, compared with no more than two per year since …
BRUSSELS, April 8 (Reuters) – EU leaders on Wednesday welcomed the two-week ceasefire agreed by the United States and Iran. “I welcome the two-week ceasefire the US and Iran agreed last night. It brings much needed de-escalation”, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on social media platform X, adding it was crucial negotiations …
Fernando Mendoza, expected to go first overall to the Las Vegas Raiders, will watch the NFL draft with family and friends in Miami, someone with knowledge of the quarterback’s plans said Tuesday. That person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because Mendoza hasn’t made his plans public. The draft will take place …
WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) – A U.S. soldier’s wife who was detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency last week was released from detention on Tuesday while President Donald Trump’s administration attempts to deport her from the country. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, of which ICE is a part, said Annie Yaritza Ramos …
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 also said they are working on similar bans after Australia became the first country in …
TYRE, Lebanon, April 8 (Reuters) – Almost every day for the last month, Hussein Saleh has made a somber pilgrimage to the plot of land in south Lebanon where his home once stood, scouring the earth for trinkets that belonged to his wife, daughter and six other relatives killed in an Israeli strike. “Every day …
By Robbie Corey-Boulet and Pulcherie Adjoha COTONOU, April 8 (Reuters) – Benin Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni is expected to make the leap from behind-the-scenes technocrat to head of state on Sunday when he runs as the strong favourite in a presidential election clouded by jihadist attacks in the north. The 49-year-old former Deloitte executive has …
COPENHAGEN, April 8 (Reuters) – Danish shipping group Maersk said on Wednesday that the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran may create transit opportunities for vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, but that it did not yet provide full maritime certainty. The war that began with U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran in February, followed by Iranian …
BEIRUT, April 8 (Reuters) – Lebanon’s Hezbollah halted fire on northern Israel and on Israeli troops in Lebanon in the early hours of Wednesday as part of the U.S.-Iran ceasefire announced earlier, three Lebanese sources close to the group told Reuters. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, a key intermediary in ceasefire talks, said the two-week …
BEIJING, April 8 (Reuters) – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will visit China from April 11 to April 15, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Wednesday, in what will be his fourth trip to the world’s second-largest economy in as many years. (Reporting by Ryan Woo and Ethan Wang; Editing by Himani Sarkar) Copyright 2026 …