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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff said in an interview published on Thursday that a second Kyiv-led peace summit should not be treated as the start of negotiations with Russia. Andriy Yermak, speaking to the media outlet Evropeiska Pravda, said the objective of a second summit would be to agree on …

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By Supantha Mukherjee STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Apple on Thursday changed its policy in the European Union to allow developers to communicate with their customers outside its App Store after the commission charged the iPhone maker in June for breaching the bloc’s tech rules. The Commission had said that under most of the business terms, Apple allows …

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By Diego Oré MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The Mexican president on Thursday rejected a request from Ukraine’s government to arrest Vladimir Putin if the Russian leader defies an international arrest warrant and attends the inauguration of Mexico’s next president in October. “We can’t do that,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters at a regular …

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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian forces were battling Ukrainian troops for a third day on Thursday after they smashed through the Russian border in the Kursk region, an audacious attack on the world’s biggest nuclear power that has forced Moscow to call in reserves. In one of the biggest Ukrainian attacks on Russia of …

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By Joan Faus BARCELONA (Reuters) – Now you see him, now you really, really don’t. “It was magic,” said former Barcelona mayor Xavier Trias, of how Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont appeared at a rally in central Barcelona on Thursday and then, embarrassingly for authorities, disappeared. Puigdemont, 61, faces an arrest warrant for alleged embezzlement …

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MADRID (Reuters) – Catalonia’s parliament on Thursday confirmed Salvador Illa, an ally of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez whose Socialists came first in May’s regional election, as head of the Catalan government, ending more than a decade of separatist rule. However, in a sign of potential further unease, Illa’s investiture was upstaged by separatist leader …

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(Reuters) -The World Central Kitchen (WCK), a U.S.-based, non-governmental organisation, said on Thursday that a Palestinian staff member had been killed in Gaza. The WCK identified the person as Nadi Sallout and said it believed he was killed while off duty on Wednesday near Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza. The WCK said it was still …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian internet monitoring services reported thousands of glitches in the availability of video hosting site YouTube on Thursday, amid escalating criticism of the platform by the Russian authorities. Russian internet monitoring service Sboi.rf said that there had been thousands of glitches reported about YouTube in Russia. Users said they could only access …

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YEKATERINBURG, Russia (Reuters) -Russian prosecutors on Thursday demanded a 15-year sentence for Ksenia Karelina, a Russian-American woman accused of treason for making a donation of just over $50 to a charity supporting Ukraine. The Los Angeles spa employee has pleaded guilty at her trial in the city of Yekaterinburg. The court press service said she …

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