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PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech government said on Wednesday it froze Russian state-owned properties in the Czech Republic, expanding a sanctions list set up in retaliation for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The government press office said the EU country widened its national sanctions list to include a Russian company, which is controlled by the Russian …

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By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) -The wife of jailed Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, who suffers from a nerve disorder after surviving two poison attacks, said on Wednesday she feared for his life after his transfer from Moscow to a Siberian penal colony. Kara-Murza, 42, has a condition called polyneuropathy that takes away the sensation …

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By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited on Wednesday a new exhibition on British novelist J.R.R. Tolkien, whose globally popular books have also become a cult in Italian right-wing circles. The exhibition “Tolkien. Man, Professor, Author” was inaugurated at Rome’s National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, marking 50 years …

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By Max Hunder SELYDOVE, Ukraine (Reuters) -At least one person was killed in an overnight Russian missile strike on a town in eastern Ukraine, authorities said on Wednesday. Rescuers were searching through the debris of a wrecked building for survivors on Wednesday morning after the attack on Selydove, northwest of Russian-occupied Donetsk. National police said …

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By Maria Martinez BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s constitutional court ruled on Wednesday that the coalition government’s decision to re-allocate 60 billion euros ($65.21 billion) of unused debt from the pandemic era to its climate and transformation fund was unconstitutional. This is a key ruling as it sets a precedent for Germany’s fiscal responses in future crises, …

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By Parisa Hafezi, Laila Bassam and Arshad Mohammed DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s supreme leader delivered a clear message to the head of Hamas when they met in Tehran in early November, according to three senior officials: You gave us no warning of your Oct. 7 attack on Israel and we will not enter the war …

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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Wednesday called on the faithful to pray regularly for peace in Ukraine, the Middle East, Sudan and all other war-torn places. “Let us pray, brothers and sisters, for peace, in a special way for martyred Ukraine, it is suffering a lot. And then the Holy Land, Palestine and …

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By Toby Sterling and Bart H. Meijer AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Facing pressure from the U.S. government and the European Union, the Dutch government on Tuesday gave up on a plan to cap the maximum number of flights at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport next summer, calling the decision “a bitter pill”. The decision is a victory for the …

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By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) – The husband of a Russian-American journalist being held in a Russian prison on suspicion of violating Moscow’s law on “foreign agents” urged the U.S. government on Tuesday to designate her as “wrongfully detained”. Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), was charged last month with failing …

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