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TBILISI (Reuters) – Georgia’s state security service said on Wednesday it was investigating a plot to assassinate billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, honorary chairman of the ruling party, with local media reporting that some suspects had links to Ukraine. The State Security Service said in a post on Facebook that it was looking into criminal activities that …

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By Karolos Grohmann PARIS (Reuters) -France was conditionally picked as the host of the 2030 Winter Games on Wednesday and must now deliver key financial guarantees in the coming months, the International Olympic Committee said. The French Alps bid was the preferred choice since June but due to elections and a current caretaker government had …

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(Removes extraneous word paragraph 3) By Sabine Siebold, Matthias Williams BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The war in Ukraine and the looming U.S. presidential election dominated a NATO summit in Washington this month but, away from the public stage, the alliance’s military planners have been focused on assessing the enormous cost of fixing Europe’s creaking defences. NATO leaders …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A car bomb injured an officer from Russia’s military intelligence agency in northern Moscow on Wednesday, the Kommersant newspaper reported. Russia’s interior ministry said that two people were injured in a blast caused by the detonation of an unidentified device and said that a criminal case had been opened. The explosion ripped …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Wednesday accused Washington of stoking tensions in the Arctic and dismissed assertions from the U.S. military that increasing cooperation between Russia and China in the area could impact regional stability. In a report earlier this month, the Pentagon said that Russia and China were increasingly collaborating in the Arctic, noting …

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(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday praised the Vatican’s efforts in seeking peace and releasing prisoners of war in talks with a senior official, a contrast from previous tensions between Kyiv and the Holy See. Zelenskiy thanked Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin for “the signal” his visit to Kyiv had brought. …

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(Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff spoke by phone with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s national security adviser, Ukraine said on Tuesday, the first such call since she emerged as the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination. Andriy Yermak, head of Zelenskiy’s presidential office, and Phil Gordon discussed the situation at the front and …

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By Michel Rose and Geert De Clercq PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday his outgoing government will remain in place until mid-August while France hosts the Olympic Games, dismissing an effort by a left-wing alliance to name a prime minister. France’s leftist New Popular Front coalition, which won the largest number of …

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