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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s shipments of food by road decreased 30.6% in the first four days of December amid difficulties on the Polish border caused by a drivers’ strike, brokers said on Wednesday. Spike Brokers, which regularly tracks and publishes export statistics in Ukraine, said on the Telegram messaging app that 50,000 metric tons of …

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PARIS (Reuters) – A 26-year-old man suspected of stabbing a German tourist to death and wounding two others in Paris last weekend has been placed under formal investigation for murder and attempted murder in connection with a terrorist organisation, said the French anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office on Wednesday. The suspect, a French man identified as Armand …

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PARIS (Reuters) – Paris will plant its first “urban forest” on a busy roundabout as part of a plan to turn the French capital into a garden city. This winter, the city will plant 478 trees on the Place de Catalogne near the Gare Montparnasse train station as a flagship project in Socialist Mayor Anne …

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By Aziz El Yaakoubi and Vladimir Soldatkin RIYADH (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday had hastily arranged talks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on oil, Gaza and Ukraine, hours after visiting Saudi Arabia’s Gulf neighbour, the United Arab Emirates. It was not immediately clear what Putin, who has rarely left Russia since …

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(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that Kyiv was ramping up domestic military production in cooperation with partners as it aims to guarantee its own defence capabilities and become a donor of security. “”Ukraine does not want to depend only on partners. Ukraine aims to and really can become a donor of …

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By Sakura Murakami, John Geddie and Trevor Hunnicutt TOKYO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) countries met virtually on Wednesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a show of solidarity and agreed to a new ban on Russian diamonds. Under the new measures, the countries will ban non-industrial …

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DUBAI (Reuters) -Yemen’s Houthi group launched several ballistic missiles at military posts in the southern Israeli city of Eilat, the group’s military spokesperson said in a statement on Wednesday. Earlier Wednesday, the Mason, a U.S. Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, shot down a drone that originated from a part of Yemen controlled by the Houthi group, a …

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By Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union should consider toughening sanctions on Hamas and its finances, and imposing sanctions on Israeli settlers responsible for violence in the West Bank, the bloc’s diplomatic service says in a paper prepared for EU foreign ministers. The “orientation note”, seen by Reuters on Wednesday, sets out options …

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ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece and Turkey should reinforce trust and deepen cooperation on common challenges as they try to solve their differences, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday before a trip to Athens. “There is no problem we cannot solve through dialogue on the basis of mutual goodwill,” Erdogan told Kathimerini newspaper in an …

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