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WARSAW, May 6 (Reuters) – A pilot was killed and more than 200 hectares of forest scorched after a firefighting plane crashed while battling a major blaze in eastern Poland’s protected Solska Forest, the country’s interior minister said on Wednesday. The fire broke out on Tuesday afternoon near the village of Kozaki in Biłgoraj County. There was no reason to suspect the fire was deliberately set, Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński […]

VIENNA (AP) — For more than a century, only conservators and experts could catch a close-up glimpse of early works by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt in Vienna, but Klimt fans are now getting that opportunity on daily guided tours high up on scaffolding. The 10 oil paintings, which are on the 18-meter-high (60-foot-high) ceilings of the renowned Burgtheater in Austria’s capital, are being restored because of water damage. “The special […]

May 6 (Reuters) – Iran will only accept “a fair and comprehensive agreement” in its negotiations with the U.S. on ending the war in the Middle East, its foreign minister said on Wednesday, as President Donald Trump cited “great progress” in the process. “We will do our best to protect our legitimate rights and interests in the negotiations,” Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said in Beijing after a meeting with China’s […]

May 6 (Reuters) – Tesla is recalling 218,868 vehicles in the U.S. due to delayed rearview camera images that could increase the risk of a crash, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Wednesday.  The regulator said the rearview camera display in affected vehicles may be delayed when the car is put into reverse, reducing driver visibility. The recall covers certain Model 3, Model Y, Model S, and […]

BERLIN, May 6 (Reuters) – German federal prosecutors conducted searches on Wednesday at some 50 locations across 12 federal states, targeting 36 individuals suspected of involvement in two far-right criminal groups accused of forming nationwide networks. The groups, identified as “Jung & Stark” and “Deutsche Jugend Voran”, which also operates under the alias “Neue Deutsche Welle”, are suspected of organizing violent actions through social media and regular gatherings, federal prosecutors […]

JOHANNESBURG, May 6 (Reuters) – South Africa has identified the Andes strain of hantavirus, which spreads human-to-human, in two people who came off a cruise ship hit by an outbreak of the disease, the health minister’s presentation to parliament showed on Wednesday. The ship, the MV Hondius, was preparing to travel from Cape Verde towards Europe on Wednesday after the Spanish government gave permission for it to dock in the […]

By Tom Sims and John O’Donnell FRANKFURT, May 6 (Reuters) – As UniCredit prepares to take over Commerzbank, some members of Germany’s government are examining a drastic step to fend off the unwanted Italian bidder by taking a bigger stake in a lender Berlin considers strategic, people involved in the matter said. Germany already owns 12% of Commerzbank after a bailout during the financial crisis two decades ago and some […]

BUDAPEST, May 6 (Reuters) – Hungarian police have said that they are investigating the companies of one of the country’s top media players who won lucrative contracts under Viktor Orban’s outgoing government, on suspicion of misappropriation of funds and money laundering. The police statement late on Tuesday came after Gyula Balasy, the owner of several top media companies that have designed government campaigns for Orban for over a decade, said […]

May 6 (Reuters) – Diageo posted 0.3% growth in quarterly organic net sales on Wednesday, driven by strong demand for its Guinness beer in Britain and Ireland and customers in Latin America and the Caribbean stocking up ahead of the soccer World Cup. Analysts had expected a 2.3% decline in organic net sales for the three months ended March, according to a company-compiled poll. The world’s top spirits maker, however, […]