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By Karolina Tagaris, Edward McAllister, Riham Alkousaa ATHENS/BERLIN (Reuters) -Najem al-Moussa was delighted when news of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow first beamed from the television in his tiny Athens apartment. Then came a dreaded thought: what if Assad’s fall meant he and his family would be forced to return to the devastated country they …

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VIENNA (Reuters) -Austria’s lower house voted on Wednesday in favour of lifting the parliamentary immunity of the leader of the far-right Freedom Party (FPO), Herbert Kickl, to let prosecutors investigate an allegation of perjury as prosecutors requested. The move paves the way for the Central Prosecutors’ Office for Economic Crimes and Corruption (WKStA) to open …

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By Benoit Van Overstraeten and Felix Light PARIS/TBILISI (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron condemned a crackdown on pro-EU protests in Georgia in a rare telephone call on Wednesday with influential Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, Macron’s office said. Ivanishvili, who made his fortune from metals and telecoms in Russia in the 1990s, is widely seen as …

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(Reuters) – Saudi Arabia will host the men’s soccer World Cup in 2034 while the 2030 edition will be held in Spain, Portugal and Morocco, with one-off matches in three South American countries, world soccer’s governing body FIFA said on Wednesday. The decision was announced by FIFA President Gianni Infantino following a virtual extraordinary Congress. …

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By Felix Light TBILISI (Reuters) – Seventy-five-year-old Marina Terishvili’s teenage son Mamuka was shot dead at a nationalist rally in Georgia in 1992. Now her other son, Giorgi, has been arrested for his role in protests against perceived Russian influence in their homeland. Seven police cars pulled up at her house in the capital Tbilisi …

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By John Irish, Tom Balmforth and Gram Slattery PARIS/LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy used his first meeting with Donald Trump since the U.S. election to explain Ukraine’s need for security guarantees in any negotiated end to the war with Russia, two sources familiar with the Dec. 7 discussions said. French President Emmanuel Macron hosted the …

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By Barbara Erling and Justyna Pawlak WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland wants more NATO members’ navies to take part in policing the Baltic Sea, including those from beyond the region, in view of the potential threat from Russia, Polish Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said. Warsaw will call for wider engagement from allies at the next NATO …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Wednesday that Ukraine had struck a military airfield on the Azov Sea with six U.S.-made ATACMS ballistic missiles, a move that could prompt Moscow to launch another experimental intermediate-range hypersonic missile at Ukraine. Russia’s defence ministry said two of the missiles fired by Ukraine were shot down by a Pantsir …

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