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Italy's financial police on Tuesday raided the headquarters of the 2026 Milan/Cortina Winter Olympics organizing committee in connection with suspected irregularities around the selection of digital service providers for the Games. Reports said that raids were also conducted at a company in Orvieto which was commissioned to provide digital services. The probe is directed against three people but none of them are currently on the Olympic organizing committee. However, one of the suspects is reportedly a former committee managing director. The organizing commmittee is controlled by the Italian O...
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is calling for better protection for radioactive material while it is being transported. Last year, 31 countries reported a total of 168 cases in which radioactive materials were stolen, lost or otherwise fell into the wrong hands. The figures were published by the IAEA on Monday at the start of a nuclear safety conference in Vienna, and are in line with the long-term average. There have been more than 4,200 such incidents in total since records began in 1993. The IAEA, which serves as the UN's nuclear watchdog, says more than half of all thefts of...
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Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, who was critically injured in an assassination attempt on Wednesday, is in stable condition, Health Minister Zuzana Dolinková said on Saturday. After his second operation on Friday, there is cause for optimism, the minister said. However, Fico cannot yet be transferred to the capital, Bratislava, in the coming days, Defence Minister Robert Kalinak said. A panel of doctors is to decide on Monday whether he is to be transferred. The prime minister is currently recovering in the university hospital Banská Bystrica, close to the small town of Handlová where he...
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Doctors operated on Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico again on Friday, two days after the attempt on his life, government and hospital officials said. The procedure was a "standard step," according to Deputy Prime Minister Robert Kalinak and the head of the hospital in the regional capital Banská Bystrica, Miriam Lapunikova. Their comments were reported by the TASR news agency. The two did not go into detail. Fico, 59, remains in intensive care and it is unclear if he will make a full recovery. Fico was hit by four shots and underwent five hours of surgery in the Banská Bystrica hospital o...
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Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico remains in intensive care two days after the assassination attempt on his life and it is unclear if he will make a full recovery. Fico was hit by four shots and underwent five hours of surgery in the Banská Bystrica hospital on Wednesday, according to the latest information provided by Fico's deputy Robert Kalinak and Interior Minister Matúš Šutaj Eštok. The severity of the injuries could make recovery difficult and Fico will "have to relearn many things," Kalinak said. Even if Fico is responsive in hospital, there is still no final certainty "that we have...
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Slovakia's former president Ivan Gašparović on Friday expressed hopes that a deep schism within the country will be overcome following the attempted assassination this week of Prime Minister Robert Fico. "Slovakia is totally divided," 83-year-old Gašparović lamented on Czech public television, adding that society had at least found some unity in this terrible moment. "Even those who have completely different views on Fico and politics in Slovakia have realized that things can't go on like this," said Gašparović, a lawyer who headed the country from 2004 to 2014. The National Council, Slovakia'...
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A member of the regional state parliament for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has had an ashtray thrown at him in a pub in the northern German city of Schwerin, injuring his head. A 52-year-old man first insulted the politician, Martin Schmidt, just after midnight and then attacked him with the ashtray, the police said on Friday morning. Schmidt was taken to hospital but was discharged again on Friday morning, according to the AfD parliamentary group of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern regional parliament. According to the police, the attacker claimed to hold left-wing political vi...
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Three professional football players in Australia have been arrested on suspicion of betting corruption, New South Wales police said on Friday. An investigation was opened in December after allegations of yellow card manipulation by players of a south-western Sydney football club, police said. "Investigations revealed a senior player was allegedly taking instructions from a man – believed to be offshore in South America – to organize for yellow cards to occur during certain games in exchange for profit." Yellow cards were allegedly manipulated during games in November and December. Failed attem...
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A man described as a "lone wolf" has been charged with the attempted murder of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, Interior Minister Matúš Šutaj Eštok said. Eštok said the 71-year-old suspect was motivated by political grievances to try and assassinate Fico. He described the man as a "lone wolf" who is "not a member of a radicalized political group, either right-wing nor left-wing." Following Wednesday's assassination attempt that shocked the country and Europe, Defence Minister Robert Kalinak said on Thursday that the leader remained in "serious" condition at hospital. Kalinak, who is also ...
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The condition of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico is "still serious" following the assassination attempt a day ago, Defence Minister Robert Kalinak said on Thursday after a special meeting of the Security Council in Bratislava. Kalinak, who is also deputy prime minister, said that Fico had been hit by four bullets and they had cause serious injuries. "The doctors have managed to stabilize his condition," he said, but stressed Fico is not yet out of danger. "We have had a difficult night," Kalinak said. Miriam Lapunikova, director of the FD Roosevelt Hospital in Banska Bystrica, said Fico u...
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