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By Elena Rodriguez MADRID (Reuters) – The head of the Spanish women’s soccer league said on Wednesday that the country’s football federation, when led by its disgraced former chief Luis Rubiales, had shown a sexist attitude towards her and a lack of institutional respect for the league. Beatriz Alvarez, who has been in charge of Liga F since July 2022, told Reuters she had not been surprised by the furore […]

By Rachel More and Alexander Ratz BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany will introduce new border controls with Poland and the Czech Republic this week, the German interior minister announced on Wednesday, saying that more should be done to protect the European Union’s fragile system of open borders. Germany saw its first-time asylum requests rise by 78% in the first seven months of 2023, according to official data. In August, registered illegal border […]

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. government on Wednesday sued eBay, accusing the online platform of violating the Clean Air Act and other environmental laws by allowing the sale of several harmful products, including devices that defeat automobile pollution controls. EBay could face billions of dollars in penalties, including up to $5,580 for each Clean Air Act violation, according to the government’s complaint filed in the federal court […]

By Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT (Reuters) – European drugmakers warned that a proposed complete ban on substances known as PFAS or “forever chemicals” would render medicine production in the region impossible, part of a high-stakes wrangle between manufacturers and environmental regulators. The European Union started to consider in February a ban of the widely used but potentially harmful substances, in what could become the bloc’s most extensive piece of regulation of […]

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Hyundai and Kia are recalling a combined 3.37 million vehicles in the United States due to the risk of engine fires, telling owners to park outside and away from structures until repairs are complete. The automakers say internal brake fluid leaks can cause an electrical short that could lead to a fire. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said owners should follow the advice […]

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s army said on Wednesday it had exchanged smoke bombs with Israeli troops at the border, the second such incident in a week. The Lebanese army, in an online statement, said Israeli troops had fired smoke bombs at a Lebanese patrol that was accompanying workers removing “infringements” that the army said had been set up by the Israelis north of the Blue Line. Lebanese army troops “responded […]

By Felix Light KORNIDZOR, Armenia (Reuters) – Father David fears for Nagorno-Karabakh’s ancient Christian heritage following the defeat of the region’s ethnic Armenian breakaway enclave by Azerbaijani forces. The 33-year-old Armenian priest has come to Kornidzor, a village on the border with mainly Muslim Azerbaijan, to provide spiritual support to tens of thousands of his compatriots now fleeing their ancestral home in Karabakh. “This is one of the darkest pages […]

By Felix Light GORIS, Armenia (Reuters) – A former head of the breakaway ethnic Armenian government in Nagorno-Karabakh was arrested by Azerbaijan on Wednesday as he tried to escape into Armenia as part of an exodus of tens of thousands of people that has triggered a humanitarian crisis. Ruben Vardanyan, a billionaire banker and philanthropist, headed Karabakh’s separatist government between November 2022 and February 2023. His wife Veronika Zonabend said […]

By Amina Ismail and Timour Azhari MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) -A fire ripped through a packed wedding hall in northern Iraq late on Tuesday, killing more than 100 people in a Christian town that had survived Islamic State occupation. Fire fighters searched the charred remains of the building in Qaraqosh, also known as Hamdaniya, through Wednesday morning and bereaved relatives gathered outside a morgue in the nearby city of Mosul, wailing […]