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By Alan Charlish and Pawel Florkiewicz WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland’s prime minister said on Thursday the Polish and Ukrainian governments would meet in Warsaw on March 28, but did not accept a request by Ukraine’s president for urgent talks on border blockades by Polish farmers. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Wednesday for Polish Prime Minister Donald …

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By Jonathan Landay and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A senior U.S. diplomat said on Thursday the United States will impose “hundreds and hundreds and hundreds” of sanctions against Russia in a new package marking the second anniversary of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine and responding to the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Under …

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By Geert De Clercq BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union’s new Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) will be based in Frankfurt, Germany, the Belgian Presidency of the EU said on Thursday, in a move the bloc hopes will advance its fight against illicit finance. Previously lacking any pan-EU authority to control dirty money, Brussels relied on national …

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By Ibraheem Abu Mustafa, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dan Williams RAFAH, Gaza Strip/CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel will send negotiators on Friday to truce talks in Paris, Israeli media said, as Gazans hoped for a ceasefire that could hold off a full-blown Israeli assault on Rafah, after it endured one of its worst bombardments of the conflict. Israel’s …

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PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron will host a number of European leaders and government representatives for a meeting on Ukraine in Paris on Monday, his office said. “Two years after the start of the invasion of Ukraine, this working meeting will be an opportunity to study ways to boost the cooperation between partners …

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By Felix Light and Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) -Alexei Navalny’s mother accused Russian investigators on Thursday of planning to bury her son in secret without a funeral, after days of struggling – so far in vain – to persuade them to hand over his body. Lyudmila Navalnaya made the allegation in a YouTube video published six …

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MADRID (Reuters) – Firefighters battled a blaze that engulfed an entire apartment building in the Spanish city of Valencia on Thursday, with local media reporting several residents still trapped inside. Television images showed the entire facade of the building ablaze as burning segments fell to the pavement below and small explosions were heard inside. Sixteen …

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By Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin flew on a modernised Tu-160M nuclear-capable strategic bomber on Thursday, in a move likely to be seen in the West as a pointed reminder of Moscow’s nuclear capabilities. The giant swing-wing plane, codenamed “Blackjacks” by military alliance NATO, is a modernised version …

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