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By Nandita Bose, Gram Slattery and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy came to the White House on Friday looking for weapons to keep fighting his country’s war with Russia, but met an American president who appears more intent on brokering a peace deal than upgrading Ukraine’s arsenal. While U.S. President Donald Trump …

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By Ahmed Jadallah and Andrew Mills DOHA (Reuters) -Hamas intends to maintain security control in Gaza during an interim period, a senior Hamas official told Reuters, adding he could not commit to the group disarming – positions that reflect the difficulties facing U.S. plans to secure an end to the war. Hamas politburo member Mohammed …

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By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -France will keep pressing the World Bank to maintain its climate finance agenda despite the Trump administration’s pressure on the global lender to abandon it, the new French development minister Eleonore Caroit said on Friday. Efforts to address climate change also will feature heavily in France’s presidency of the Group …

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By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration by Monday will furlough about 1,400 workers at the agency that manages the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal due to the government shutdown, the Department of Energy said on Friday. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said in a post on X that the furloughs will affect National Nuclear Security …

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By Gerhard Mey and Sarah Young BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) -Britain’s government is doing everything in its power to make sure travelling fans of soccer club Maccabi Tel Aviv can attend a match in Birmingham next month, interior minister Shabana Mahmood said on Friday, after an earlier ban. “Antisemitism is a stain on our society that …

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ANKARA (Reuters) -German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said the planned Budapest talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin were a second attempt to make the Russian president recognise the need to negotiate seriously with Ukraine. “I see the talks in Budapest as a second attempt, after the talks in Alaska, to convince Putin …

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By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia and the United States should build a “Putin-Trump” rail tunnel under the Bering Strait to link their countries, unlock joint exploration of natural resources and “symbolise unity”, a Kremlin envoy has suggested. The proposal by Kirill Dmitriev, President Vladimir Putin’s investment envoy and head of Russia’s RDIF sovereign wealth …

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