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BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania’s ruling coalition of centre-right Liberals and leftist Social Democrats will run on joint lists in the European Parliament election on June 9, their leaders said, in a bid to stem the rise of the ultra-nationalist opposition party AUR. However the two governing parties would still field their own separate candidates in …

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BARCELONA (Reuters) -Catalonia’s top court on Thursday found former Brazil footballer Dani Alves guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in a Barcelona nightclub in 2022, sentencing him to four and a half years in prison. The court also ordered that Alves pay 150,000 euros ($162,990) to the victim. “The sentence considers that it has been …

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By Felix Light TBILISI (Reuters) – Like many other young Russians, Anastasia Panchenko’s political awakening came courtesy of Alexei Navalny. Left reeling by his sudden death, she is looking now to his widow Yulia to take on the mantle of Russian opposition leader. Since Navalny died in an Arctic penal colony last Friday, Panchenko has …

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By Charlotte Bruneau LOZUVATKA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Wives have become widows, parents long for captured sons, classrooms are empty and farmers can’t find the hands to work the land. Unlikely friendships have formed; old ones have fallen apart. Even in the village of Lozuvatka, about 100 km (60 miles) from the frontlines, signs are everywhere …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – International Monetary Fund officials are negotiating with Ukrainian officials in Warsaw, Poland this week about a follow-on disbursement of $890 million from the country’s $15.6 billion loan, a source familiar with the process said on Wednesday. Negotiations are ongoing, the source said, noting the IMF mission, which began on Saturday, ends on …

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By Bassam Masoud, Ibraheem Abu Mustafa and Nidal al-Mughrabi RAFAH, Gaza Strip/CAIRO (Reuters) – Israel intensified its bombardment of Rafah in Gaza’s south and over a dozen members of one family were killed in an air strike, residents said, as the ruined Palestinian enclave’s health ministry announced 29,313 deaths in the war so far. In …

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By Pawel Florkiewicz and Karol Badohal WARSAW (Reuters) -Lawmakers from Poland’s ruling coalition will submit a preliminary motion to put central bank chief Adam Glapinski before a state tribunal by the end of March, state news agency PAP reported a lawmaker as saying, in what would be an unprecedented move for the European Union state. …

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PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech Republic is in talks with Germany to get 15 Leopard 2A4 tanks as a gift compensating Czech military support for Ukraine and to possibly buy 15 more from the German defence industry, the Czech Defence Ministry said on Wednesday. The Czechs had received 15 Leopard 2A4 tanks from Germany as …

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(Reuters) – Russia’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a ruling by electoral authorities barring anti-war candidate Boris Nadezhdin from next month’s presidential election, leaving President Vladimir Putin without any significant challengers. Nadezhdin was barred from standing when the Central Election Commission said it had found irregularities, including names of dead people, in the list of …

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