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LONDON (Reuters) -A Russian-American woman arrested earlier this year while visiting family in Russia went on trial for alleged treason on Thursday after authorities accused her of raising money to send to the Ukrainian army. Ksenia Karelina, who was born in Russia but had built a new life as an aesthetician at a Los Angeles …

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PARIS (Reuters) – French hard-left MP Eric Coquerel said on Thursday the French popular front party does not want to leave the euro zone if it wins the upcoming general elections, adding its economic programme won’t be financed by deficit but by higher tax revenues and a stronger growth. “I think that overall our budget …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli tanks backed by warplanes and drones advanced deeper into the western part of the Gaza Strip city of Rafah on Wednesday, killing eight people, according to residents and Palestinian medics. Residents said the tanks moved into five neighbourhoods after midnight. Heavy shelling and gunfire hit the tents of displaced …

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By Julia Payne BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU countries failed to agree on a 14th package of sanctions on Russia as Germany remained a blocking force despite the scrapping of a clause that Berlin found problematic, EU diplomats said on Wednesday. Officials from the 27 EU countries have been debating the package for over a month. …

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ATHENS (Reuters) -Greek firefighters appeared close to containing a wildfire near Athens on Wednesday that forced dozens to flee their homes, and authorities now believe the fire was the result of arson as well as hot, dry conditions. Traffic was suspended along a main highway connecting Koropi to Athens’ southern suburbs, about 30 km (19 …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission will introduce tariffs on Ukrainian egg imports into the European Union within the next two weeks after a previously agreed annual threshold for those imports has been reached, a spokesperson said on Wednesday. The EU has set limits for certain agricultural imports from Ukraine after free-trade access, granted to …

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MADRID (Reuters) – Police in the Netherlands have arrested the suspected gunman in the shooting of a right-wing Spanish politician linked to an Iranian opposition group on a Madrid street last November, Spanish police said on Wednesday. The man, a Frenchman of Tunisian origin with a criminal record, is the sixth suspect to have been …

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