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By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) – European Union leaders decided on Thursday to launch formal membership talks with Ukraine, providing a much-needed boost for Kyiv amid uncertainty over the future of vital wartime foreign assistance. Brussels offered Kyiv candidate status four months after Moscow’s February 2022 invasion, prompting a rush by Ukrainian authorities to reform …

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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Allies of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on Friday that it was still unclear where he was after prison authorities said he was no longer in the penal colony where he had been serving his sentence. Navalny, a former lawyer who rose to prominence by lampooning President Vladimir …

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By Francesca Piscioneri ROME (Reuters) – Food is a serious business in Italy, part of the national identity, as illustrated by a row that has broken out over how to make carbonara pasta sauce. Luca Cesari, a food historian and author from Bologna, faced a stream of online abuse after he posted a video on …

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By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s national security adviser will visit Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Friday, according to a U.S. official. The official said on Thursday that the adviser, Jake Sullivan, would discuss “ongoing efforts to revamp and revitalize” the Palestinian Authority and holding “extremist” settlers accountable for …

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By Tom Balmforth and Yuliia Dysa (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy hailed a “victory” for Ukraine and the European continent on Thursday after European Union leaders agreed to open membership talks for Ukraine and Moldova despite months of opposition from Hungary about Kyiv joining. The decision announced by European Council President Charles Michel on the first …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Here are some highlights from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual press conference and phone-in held in Moscow on Thursday: ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE “There will be peace when we achieve our goals. Let’s return to these goals: they have not changed. I’ll remind you of what we talked about then: the denazification …

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