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By Xinghui Kok, Fanny Potkin and Idrees Ali SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is expected to attend the Shangri-La Dialogue security conference in Singapore this weekend, six sources said, as Ukraine faces a renewed assault two years after Russian forces invaded. Security assistance for Ukraine is expected to be one of the key …

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By Steve Holland and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON/PRAGUE (Reuters) – President Joe Biden has quietly allowed Kyiv to fire U.S.-supplied weapons at targets inside Russia but only near the border with the area around Ukraine’s northern city of Kharkiv, U.S. officials said on Thursday. The decision amounts to a policy shift by Biden, who until now …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden has secretly given Ukraine permission to strike inside Russia – solely near the area of Kharkiv – with American weapons, Politico reported on Thursday, citing a U.S. official and two other people familiar with the plan. “The president recently directed his team to ensure that Ukraine is able …

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(Reuters) -Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was released from a hospital in the central city of Banska Bystrica, where he had been recovering from an assassination attempt, and taken to his apartment in Bratislava on Thursday, Slovak media reported. The hospital and the government office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The …

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By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) -Russia will not be invited to events marking the 80th anniversary of the Second World War’s D-Day landings next week given its war of aggression against Ukraine, the French presidency said on Thursday. Organisers had said in April that President Vladimir Putin would not be invited to the events in …

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By Joan Faus BARCELONA (Reuters) – Spain’s Congress on Thursday overturned an upper house veto with its final approval of a disputed amnesty for Catalan separatists that is expected to set the stage for Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s second term and allow the return of an exiled pro-independence leader. The bill, approved by 177-172 votes, …

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