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(Reuters) -Ukrainian forces have secured a foothold on the east bank of the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff said on Tuesday. Andriy Yermak’s remarks were the first official acknowledgement that Ukrainian troops were established on the Dnipro’s east bank in Kherson region. “Against all odds, Ukraine’s Defense Forces have …

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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – British Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch plans to attend a meeting of a major trans-Pacific trade pact, which does not include the United States, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco. It will be Britain’s first attendance at a meeting of the Comprehensive …

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By Ben Makori GRINDAVIK, Iceland (Reuters) -Icelandic authorities were on Tuesday preparing to build defence walls around a geothermal power plant in the southwestern part of the country that they hope will protect it from lava flows amid concerns about an imminent volcanic eruption. Seismic activity and underground lava flows intensified on the Reykjanes peninsula …

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ANKARA (Reuters) – The Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs commission will debate a bill approving Sweden’s NATO membership on Thursday, according to the official agenda of the commission. President Tayyip Erdogan submitted the bill to parliament for ratification three weeks ago, in a move welcomed by NATO and Stockholm. Turkey had initially raised objections due to …

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(Reuters) -Drugmaker AstraZeneca said on Tuesday its cancer drug Imfinzi given along with chemoradiotherapy (CRT) failed to meet its main goal in a late-stage trial to treat unresectable, Stage 3 non-small cell lung cancer. Imfinzi administered sequentially after platinum-based CRT is already an established standard of care for the treatment of that type of lung …

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By Alan Charlish and Pawel Florkiewicz WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland’s parliament met for the first time on Monday since an election in which an alliance of pro-European Union parties won a majority, heralding a new start for Polish politics. President Andrzej Duda formally nominated outgoing Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki to form a new government, but he …

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PARIS (Reuters) -France’s cyber defence unit has unveiled a disinformation campaign emanating from Azerbaijan that aimed to undermine Paris’ capacity to hold next year’s Olympic Games, a report showed on Monday. According to the report seen by Reuters and other media, the campaign ran from July 26-27 on an account of an Azerbaijani individual on …

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By Belén Carreño and Joan Faus MADRID (Reuters) -Spain’s acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will seek to clinch a new four-year term in a parliament vote on Thursday, the chamber’s speaker said on Monday, just as his party submitted a contentious bill granting amnesty for Catalan separatists. Sanchez, in power since 2018, looks assured of …

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