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(Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he had held “productive and energetic” talks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman focusing on this week’s “Peace Summit” in Switzerland and improving bilateral ties. Kyiv aims to build international support for a peace plan proposed by Zelenskiy that includes a full withdrawal of Russian troops …

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By Emma Farge and Gloria Dickie BERN (Reuters) -The lower house of the Swiss parliament votes on Wednesday on a motion rejecting a landmark ruling ordering Switzerland to do more to combat global warming, a move that could encourage others to resist the influence of international courts. In April, the European Court of Human Rights …

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PARIS (Reuters) – France’s conservative Republicans party was fraying on Wednesday after its leader called for an alliance between his party’s candidates and Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) in a snap parliamentary election. Eric Ciotti’s call to ditch a decades-long consensus among France’s mainstream political parties and seek to join forces with the …

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By Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Wednesday that soldiers and sailors from its northern Leningrad military district bordering NATO members Norway, Finland, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania took part in drills to deploy tactical nuclear weapons. The move appears to broaden the disclosed geography of the nuclear drills to include …

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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – Both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes in the early stages of the Gaza war, a U.N. inquiry found on Wednesday, saying that Israel’s actions also constituted crimes against humanity because of the immense civilian losses. The findings were from two parallel reports, one focusing on the Oct. 7 …

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PARIS (Reuters) – France needs quick clarity around the budget strategy for the country once a snap parliamentary election is over, Bank of France chief and European Central Bank (ECB) policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Wednesday. French bonds and stocks have underperformed other European markets this week after President Emmanuel Macron called for …

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By Anastasiia Malenko KYIV (Reuters) – When the power goes down and the elevator stops working, Ukrainian couple Maryna and Valeriy Tkalich leave the pushchair on the ground floor and carry their two-month-old son up the 12 flights of stairs to their apartment instead. And once authorities in Kyiv have notified residents of upcoming scheduled …

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