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DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar expressed his “deep concern” on Sunday about reports of suspected criminal damage at properties earmarked for accommodating migrants, including a fire at a former hotel in the county of Galway overnight. Police said on Sunday that they are investigating a “criminal damage incident by fire” which occurred …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin said U.S. President Joe Biden’s claim that Russia would attack a NATO country if he won in Ukraine was complete nonsense, adding that Russia had no interest in fighting with the NATO military alliance. Biden earlier this month warned that if Putin won a victory over Ukraine then Russia …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Vladimir Putin will run for president again as an independent candidate with a wide support base but not on a party ticket, Russian news agencies reported on Saturday, citing his supporters. An initiative group made up of over 700 politicians and figures from the sporting and cultural worlds met on Saturday in Moscow …

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By Ahmed Hagagy KUWAIT (Reuters) -Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Sabah was named as Kuwait’s new emir on Saturday after the death of his brother Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah aged 86. Sheikh Meshal, 83, spent much of his career helping build the Gulf state’s security and defence apparatus before stepping into the public eye when he became …

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LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s Socialist Party (PS) on Saturday elected Pedro Nuno Santos to lead them in a March 10 snap parliamentary election, following Antonio Costa’s resignation as prime minister and party leader last month amid a corruption investigation. The 46-year-old former infrastructure minister beat acting Interior Minister Jose Luis Carneiro, who was seen as …

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By Lucien Libert PARIS (Reuters) – A large crane hoisted a new copper rooster back to the top of the spire of Notre-Dame on Saturday, a meaningful milestone as workers race to finish renovating the fire-damaged Paris cathedral in the next twelve months. In the April 15, 2019 fire that ravaged the cathedral, the old …

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