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By Holger Hansen and Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) -Olaf Scholz’s remaining coalition partner said on Monday it was open to an earlier parliamentary vote to open the way to a snap election, joining with opposition parties to urge Germany’s chancellor to provide clarity on the matter this week. Scholz, a Social Democrat, had originally planned …

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(Reuters) – The European Union has supplied Ukraine with more than 980,000 shells for the war with Russia and plans to pass the 1 million mark by the end of this year, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday. The EU initially set out to supply 1 million 155-mm artillery shells by March …

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By Ramadan Abed GAZA (Reuters) – Itimad al-Qanou, a Palestinian mother struggling to feed her seven children, feels abandoned by everyone. She sometimes feels that death is the best way to end her family’s suffering after a year of war that has turned Gaza into a bombed-out wasteland gripped by hunger. “Let them drop a …

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By Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) – As Donald Trump’s election win brings the prospect of talks to end Russia’s war in Ukraine closer, Kyiv is battling to put itself in the strongest position for any negotiations, including by securing more arms and holding out on the battlefield. A senior Ukrainian official said the next four …

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PARIS (Reuters) -Ukraine’s allies must not prejudge how Donald Trump will handle the war there, France’s foreign minister said on Monday, as French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer reaffirmed their support for Kyiv during talks in Paris. Trump has repeatedly criticised the scale of Western aid to Kyiv and has promised …

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By Dmitry Antonov, Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin on Monday denied reports that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent days, and said Putin had no concrete plans yet to speak to Trump. The Washington Post first reported that the call had taken place, citing unidentified sources, and …

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