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By Andrew Gray, Michel Rose and Julia Payne BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen began trying to piece together a coalition on Monday after the far right gained ground in a European Parliament election, spurring French President Emmanuel Macron to call a snap national vote. Centrist parties won a majority of seats …

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PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron is leaning towards endorsing Ursula von der Leyen for another term as president of the European Commission after her centre-right camp scored strongly in European Parliament elections, two sources told Reuters. Macron has not explicitly endorsed von der Leyen since she decided to run for a second term. …

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BIALOWIEZA, Poland (Reuters) – Poland’s move to set up a no-go zone to control the number of migrants coming over its borders could also stop thousands of tourists visiting the forested frontier with Belarus, local business owners fear. Hoteliers and tour operators said they were particularly worried about the impact on the summer season from …

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PARIS (Reuters) -Political upheaval in France won’t affect preparations for the Olympic Summer Games, IOC President Thomas Bach said on Monday after President Emmanuel Macron shocked France with his call for new parliamentary elections. Macron called the snap election after the far-right National trounced his own party in Sunday’s European Parliament vote. Two voting rounds …

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(Fixes formatting in lead) (Reuters) -A local Ukrainian official on Monday denied a claim by the leader of Russia’s Chechnya region that Russian forces led by a Chechen-based special forces unit had seized control of a border village in northeast Ukraine. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Sunday the Akhmat-Chechnya unit spearheaded Russian troops in …

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SOFIA (Reuters) – The centre-right GERB party was on course to have won the most votes in Bulgaria’s parliamentary election, but will have to seek coalition partners to form a government, partial official results on Monday based on 64.06% of ballots counted showed. The results from Sunday’s election, Bulgaria’s sixth in three years, showed GERB …

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BERN (Reuters) – Ninety states and organisations have so far registered to take part in a summit aiming to pave the way for peace in Ukraine that Switzerland will host from June 15-16, the Swiss government said on Monday. Russia has not been invited to the summit due to be held in central Switzerland, but …

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By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli minister Benny Gantz announced his resignation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s emergency government on Sunday, withdrawing the only centrist power in the embattled leader’s far-right coalition amid a months-long war in Gaza. The departure of Gantz’s centrist party will not pose an immediate threat to the government. But it …

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