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By Thomas Escritt and Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) -Belarus rights activists pressed Germany for answers on Friday as to why Belarusian political prisoners, including a prominent and popular opposition leader, had not been included in the biggest prisoner swap since the Cold War on Thursday. Maria Kalesnikava, part of an alliance that inflicted the severest …

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By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Maria Rosa Mayer Munos and her husband Ludwig Gisch were an Argentine couple who had lived in the Slovenian capital since 2017, each running a company and leading a quiet life in a quiet neighborhood with their two children. That turned out to be a complete facade, exposed when …

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By Dmitry Antonov and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) -A family of Russian sleeper agents flown to Moscow in the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War were so deep under cover that their children found out they were Russians only after the flight took off, the Kremlin said on Friday. “Before that, they didn’t …

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By Belén Carreño and Lorena Sopena BARCELONA (Reuters) – Grassroots members of Catalonia’s separatist ERC party supported on Friday a regional government deal with Spain’s ruling Socialists that could patch up Madrid’s uneasy relations with the region but also impact Spain’s entire fiscal system. A narrow majority of ERC members voted in favour of the …

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BERLIN (Reuters) – Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza who was released from jail on Thursday in a major prisoner swap said he and others were subject to illegal psychological torture during their imprisonment. During a news conference in Bonn, Kara-Murza said he was allowed to speak with his wife just once and his children twice in …

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BERLIN (Reuters) – The Russian opposition activists released from jail in Russia and deported to Germany in a major prisoner swap on Thursday said they would continue their political activity from abroad. “We will continue political activity, we understand our responsibility,” Ilya Yashin, who had been imprisoned for criticising the war in Ukraine, told reporters …

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CARACAS (Reuters) – The president of Venezuela’s electoral council said on Friday that nearly 97% of votes in last Sunday’s election have now been tallied and reaffirmed what he said was President Nicolas Maduro’s victory with just under 52%. (Reporting by Vivian Sequera; Writing by Julia Symmes Cobb)

BERLIN (Reuters) – Russian opposition activist Ilya Yashin, released from a Russian jail in a major prisoner swap on Thursday, said he wanted to return to Russia but it was made clear to him there would be no more prisoner swaps if he did. Yashin also told reporters in Bonn an officer of the Russia’s …

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