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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s call for Ukraine and Russia to stop at the current frontlines was “a good compromise”. But Zelenskiy, who is visiting Nordic countries, said he doubted that Russian President Vladimir Putin would support it. (Reporting by Yuliia Dysa, Olena Harmash; Editing by …

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The Dutch public prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday that police had detained a 25-year-old man for questioning after he had issued violent threats against politicians in a livestreamed, widely shared TikTok. The suspect specifically named far-right politician Geert Wilders in the video. In the clip, he said he would go to parliament “with …

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BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungary will start talks on buying nuclear fuel from the United States to diversify its supply, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Wednesday in an interview with state news channel M1. Szijjarto, who has been in Washington since Tuesday, said that Hungary needs more nuclear fuel to fulfil its growing energy needs …

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The Netherlands will cull around 161,000 chickens at a poultry farm in the central-eastern region of the country after bird flu was detected there, the government said in a statement on Wednesday. A transport ban is in place within a 10 km radius of the affected farm, impacting 26 poultry farms in the …

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PARIS (Reuters) -Slovakia has reported an outbreak of bird flu on a poultry farm in the northern part of the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Wednesday, as Europe faces a seasonal upturn in the deadly disease. The H5N1 strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, killed 27 …

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By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union leaders want a revision clause in the bloc’s new climate change target, potentially allowing them to weaken it in future, draft conclusions for a summit on Thursday showed. Government leaders will meet for what diplomats expect to be a heated debate on the EU’s new climate target for …

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