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BERLIN (Reuters) -Measles cases in the European region doubled in 2024 to a more than 25-year-high, the World Health Organisation and UNICEF said on Thursday, as they urged action to restore vaccination levels that slumped after the COVID-19 pandemic. Children under five accounted for more than 40% of the 127,350 cases reported last year in …

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By Guy Faulconbridge, Andrew Osborn and Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia supported a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine in principle, but sought a number of clarifications and conditions that appeared to rule out a quick end to the fighting. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 …

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(Reuters) – The U.S. military must work to provide options to ensure the United States has full access to the Panama Canal, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Thursday. President Donald Trump has said repeatedly he wants to “take back” the Panama Canal, which is located at the narrowest part of the isthmus between North …

Pentagon asked for military options to access Panama Canal, officials say Read More »

By John Irish and Daphne Psaledakis LA MALBAIE, Canada (Reuters) -Diplomats from the G7 nations were set to negotiate late into the night over a joint statement to show a united front in Canada on Thursday after weeks of tension between U.S. allies and President Donald Trump over his upending of Western trade and security …

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By Felix Light and Nailia Bagirova TBILISI/BAKU (Reuters) -Armenian and Azerbaijani officials said on Thursday that they had agreed the text of a peace agreement to end nearly four decades of conflict between the South Caucasus countries, a sudden breakthrough in a fitful and often bitter peace process. The two post-Soviet countries have fought a …

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By Felix Light TBILISI (Reuters) – Armenia and Azerbaijan were locked in conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh for nearly four decades after the Soviet Union they were both members of collapsed. Here is a look at the history of the conflict and the latest developments as Armenian and Azerbaijani officials said on Thursday that they had agreed …

Explainer-What is the history of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan? Read More »

By Andrei Khalip and Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) -Portugal will hold an early parliamentary election – its third in just over three years – on May 18, President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said on Thursday, two days after the centre-right minority government lost a parliamentary confidence vote. The president made the widely-expected decision to disband …

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By Georgi Slavov SOFIA (Rtrs) -Sixteen Bulgarian lawmakers lost their seats on Thursday after the Constitutional Court found they were wrongly elected during a partial recount of the October election. The court looked into the election after a complaint by the nationalist Velichie Party, which initially missed the 4% threshold to enter parliament by just …

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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Russia’s Vladimir Putin is preparing a rejection of a ceasefire proposal, but is scared to say this directly to U.S. President Donald Trump. Zelenskiy, speaking in his evening address, said Russia is setting conditions on a ceasefire in order to delay it, or make it …

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