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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Dutch riot police clashed with protesters at the University of Amsterdam on Wednesday, while scores of demonstrators at U.S. colleges were arrested overnight as the student-led protests against Israel’s war in Gaza roiled more campuses on both sides of the Atlantic. In Amsterdam, protesters atop makeshift barriers of desks, bricks and wooden pallets …

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By Clotaire Achi and Julien Pretot MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) – The Olympic flame landed on French soil amid tight security on Wednesday, firing the starting gun on a summer extravaganza of sport that President Emmanuel Macron hopes will showcase the splendours of France and burnish his legacy. The flame arrived in Marseille, a port city …

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SKOPJE (Reuters) – North Macedonia’s right-wing opposition party VMRO-DPMNE held a strong lead in Wednesday’s parliamentary elections, with 34% of votes after 23% of votes counted, election commission results showed. The ruling Social Democrats (SDSM) trailed with 11.55% of votes. (Reporting by Aleksandar Vasovic; Editing by Edward McAllister)

By Julia Payne BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Ambassadors from European Union countries agreed on Wednesday to use windfall profits from Russian central bank assets frozen in the EU for Ukraine’s defence, the Belgian government said. Ministers still need to approve the legal text that will see 90% of the proceeds go into an EU-run fund for …

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WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland’s prime minister wants to revive a Polish commission investigating Russian influence, he said on Wednesday, amid heightened fears about espionage after a Polish judge who had access to military secrets asked for asylum in Belarus. While Poland has long said that its position as a key distribution hub for supplies to Ukraine …

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By Rachel More and Matthias Williams BERLIN (Reuters) -A senior figure in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party became the latest target in a string of attacks on German politicians when a man struck her from behind with a bag containing a hard object in a Berlin library, police said on Wednesday. Berlin senator and former city …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia warned France on Wednesday that if President Emmanuel Macron sent troops to Ukraine then they would be seen as legitimate targets by the Russian military. Macron caused controversy in February by saying he could not rule out the deployment of ground troops in Ukraine in the future. The French leader warned …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Wednesday said it had no comment on Ukrainian assertions that Kyiv caught Russian agents plotting the assassination of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, but said that it was hardly likely to be accurate information. Ukraine’s state security service said on Tuesday it caught two agents for Russia who planned to kill …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – British allegations of Russian involvement in an arson attack in Britain are absurd and part of an information war against Moscow, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday. Zakharova said Russia considered such allegations provocative and never carried out sabotage attacks against civilian targets. She was referring to a case …

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