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By Alexander Villegas and Marco Aquino LIMA, June 5 (Reuters) – The results of Peru’s presidential election on Sunday could hinge on the votes of small, artisanal gold miners who benefit from loose regulations under an administrative program that was created in 2016 and originally slated to end in 2020. The REINFO program, which allows small miners to operate without full environmental or operating permits, has been repeatedly extended as […]

By Jagoda Darlak June 5 (Reuters) – A Swedish court has ruled that the seizure of a cargo vessel in the Baltic Sea was lawful and that the ship can be handed over to Ukraine, where it is suspected of illegally transporting grain from Russian-occupied territory. Swedish police and the coast guard seized the vessel, the Caffa, off southern Sweden in March, alleging it was sailing under a false flag […]

By Jagoda Darlak June 5 (Reuters) – A Swedish court has ruled that the seizure of a cargo vessel in the Baltic Sea was lawful and that the ship can be handed over to Ukraine, where it is suspected of illegally transporting grain from Russian-occupied territory. Swedish police and the coast guard seized the vessel, the Caffa, off southern Sweden in March, alleging it was sailing under a false flag […]

By Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK, June 5 (Reuters) – Thailand said on Friday it will join a U.N. arbitration process chosen by Cambodia to resolve a festering maritime boundary dispute, but put on hold for now other two-way efforts to settle their contested borders. This week Cambodia launched a compulsory conciliation process under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), after Bangkok decided last month to unilaterally […]

By Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK, June 5 (Reuters) – Thailand said on Friday it will join a U.N. arbitration process chosen by Cambodia to resolve a festering maritime boundary dispute, but put on hold for now other two-way efforts to settle their contested borders. This week Cambodia launched a compulsory conciliation process under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), after Bangkok decided last month to unilaterally […]

By Ivana Sekularac and Andreas Rinke TIVAT, Montenegro, June 5 (Reuters) – The European Union must show it is willing and able to take in new members, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday as the bloc’s leaders gathered with Western Balkan counterparts hoping to join in the coming years. Enlargement has risen up ​the EU agenda due to Russia’s war against Ukraine, with Kyiv keen to join the ​bloc to anchor itself […]

By Ivana Sekularac and Andreas Rinke TIVAT, Montenegro, June 5 (Reuters) – The European Union must show it is willing and able to take in new members, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday as the bloc’s leaders gathered with Western Balkan counterparts hoping to join in the coming years. Enlargement has risen up ​the EU agenda due to Russia’s war against Ukraine, with Kyiv keen to join the ​bloc to anchor itself […]

By Ben Ezeamalu YAWOTA, Nigeria, June 5 (Reuters) – It was mid-morning when Aduke Balogun noticed a masked man in military fatigues walking towards her children’s school. Minutes later, gunfire erupted, more gunmen appeared and residents fled. In the chaos, her six-year-old daughter Feranmi managed to escape but another daughter, eight-year-old Kausarat, was not so lucky – one of more than 30 students and a teacher seized and spirited into […]

By Ben Ezeamalu YAWOTA, Nigeria, June 5 (Reuters) – It was mid-morning when Aduke Balogun noticed a masked man in military fatigues walking towards her children’s school. Minutes later, gunfire erupted, more gunmen appeared and residents fled. In the chaos, her six-year-old daughter Feranmi managed to escape but another daughter, eight-year-old Kausarat, was not so lucky – one of more than 30 students and a teacher seized and spirited into […]