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By Matthias Inverardi, Matthias Williams and Steve Holland DUESSELDORF/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Berlin is taking reports of a plot to assassinate the chief executive of arms manufacturer Rheinmetall very seriously and will not be cowed by Russian intimidation, the German government said on Friday. A source familiar with the situation confirmed reporting by CNN and others that …

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) -Three people were killed and several others seriously injured after scaffolding collapsed outside a 19-storey building in a suburb of the Swiss city of Lausanne on Friday, authorities said. The three deceased were workers on the building site in their 30s and 40s from France, Switzerland and Cape Verde, officials from the …

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By Gram Slattery, Steve Holland and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met with Donald Trump on Thursday and the pair discussed the “possibilities of peace”, a spokesperson for the prime minister said as he pushes for a ceasefire in Ukraine. Trump and Orban met at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida “as …

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THE HAGUE (Reuters) – A Dutch court on Friday rejected a demand by rights groups to order the Netherlands to block all exports of F-35 fighter jet parts which might end up in Israel. The case, started by rights groups including the Dutch arm of Oxfam, followed from another district court ruling in February that …

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By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Ukraine’s top prosecutor has called for the International Criminal Court to prosecute Russia over a missile strike on a children’s hospital in Kyiv earlier this week. Ukraine’s capital suffered on Monday one of its worst days of airstrikes since the start of Russia’s war, and attacks …

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By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan and Maayan Lubell CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli and Egyptian ceasefire negotiators are in talks about an electronic surveillance system along the border between Gaza and Egypt that could allow Israel to pull back its troops from the area if a ceasefire is agreed, according to two Egyptian sources and a third …

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MADRID (Reuters) – The leader of Spain’s far-right Vox party announced late on Thursday he was pulling out of five regional government coalitions with the centre-right People’s Party (PP) due to disagreements on migration policy. The PP, which runs five regions including Valencia in partnership with Vox, on Wednesday backed a plan by Spain’s central …

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By John Irish WASHINGTON (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron once shook up NATO by declaring it was suffering “brain death”. But his days of such boldness on the international stage may be slipping away after his gamble on a snap election produced political paralysis at home. At NATO’s Washington summit, allies have been left …

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