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(Reuters) -The European Union’s executive told member states that the United Arab Emirates has agreed to restrict the re-export to Russia of sensitive goods used for military purposes in Ukraine, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. A UAE official told Bloomberg News that it restricts the export and re-export of identified dual-use products to conflict zones …

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MADRID (Reuters) -The former head of Spain’s centre-right People’s Party in the Catalonia region was shot in the face in the Spanish capital Madrid on Thursday, police said. Alejo Vidal-Quadras was shot in the wealthy Salamanca area of central Madrid at about 1.30 p.m. and taken to hospital. Hospital authorities said his life was not …

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PARIS (Reuters) – A teenager has been arrested and is under investigation for assault after kicking a rabbi in the back in the Paris Metro, a prosecutor said on Thursday, against broader concerns over a recent surge in antisemitism in France. The prosecutor at the Bobigny Tribunal said the possibility of an antisemitic motive aggravated …

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PARIS (Reuters) – France on Thursday blamed a Russian disinformation campaign for amplifying on social media graffiti of Stars of David that appeared in Paris earlier this week. The Foreign Ministry said Recent Reliable News/Doppelganger is a Russian propaganda network that “artificially inflated” and published on social media pictures of the graffiti. “This new operation …

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LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal will hold a snap parliamentary election on March 10, its second in as many years, President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said on Thursday, following Tuesday’s abrupt resignation of the Socialist prime minister amid a corruption investigation. Yet, the president said he would only disband parliament after the final vote on the …

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(Refiles to add dropped letter ‘c’ in Scholz’s name in headline.) By Sarah Marsh and Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) -Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he was “ashamed and outraged” at a recent wave of antisemitic incidents in Germany, warning Berlin would not tolerate such anti-Jewish hatred as he marked the 85th anniversary of the Nazis’ “Kristallnacht” …

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By Tom Balmforth (Reuters) – A global “peace summit” for Ukraine may now take place in February 2024, a top Kyiv official said on Thursday amid concerns in the West that the war in Gaza is making it harder to win over diplomatic support for Kyiv’s blueprint for peace. Ukraine had aimed to hold a …

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