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HAMBURG (Reuters) – Germany’s agriculture ministry said on Wednesday it expects meat and dairy product exports to the European Union to continue despite a case of the foot-and-mouth disease affecting livestock being confirmed last week. German authorities confirmed the country’s first outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in nearly 40 years on Friday in a herd of …

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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump now concede that the Ukraine war will take months or even longer to resolve, a sharp reality check on his biggest foreign policy promise – to strike a peace deal on his first day in the White House. Two Trump associates, who have discussed …

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DUBLIN (Reuters) – Talks between Ireland’s two historically dominant centre-right parties and independent lawmakers have reached agreement that will give a new coalition government a “comfortable majority,” a negotiator for one of the parties said on Wednesday. Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, who were the largest parties in the outgoing coalition, have been in talks …

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ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Italy, Albania and the United Arab Emirates signed on Wednesday a deal worth at least 1 billion euros ($1 billion) to build a subsea interconnection for renewable energy across the Adriatic Sea. “We strongly believe in this project involving our three governments, as well as our private sector and grid operators,” …

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(Reuters) – Ukraine introduced emergency power cuts in six regions amid what authorities described as a “massive” Russian missile strike, the national grid operator said on Wednesday. Kyiv’s air force had warned of numerous groups of missiles launched by Russia amid a nationwide air-raid alert, but there were no immediate reports of damage. In a …

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