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PARIS (Reuters) – France’s centre-right Les Republicains (LR) party maintained its majority in the Senate after Sunday’s vote, in which three senators from Marine Le Pen’s far-right party were elected. “This senatorial renewal reinforces the senatorial majority of the right and the center and is a testimony of its territorial roots,” Gerard Larcher, the leader …

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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday he met leading American entrepreneurs and financiers during a visit this week to the United States, where investment opportunities in Ukraine were discussed. Zelenskiy said the businessmen, who included Michael Bloomberg, Larry Fink and Bill Ackman, were prepared to make major investments in rebuilding Ukraine after …

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(Reuters) -Israeli forces killed two Palestinians, including a fighter from the Islamist group Hamas, during a raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank early on Sunday, emergency workers and Hamas said. Israeli forces raided the Nur Shams camp near the city of Tulkarm and a gun battle ensued with Palestinian fighters, medic …

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By Philip Pullella ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) – Pope Francis suggested on Saturday that some countries were “playing games” with Ukraine by first providing weapons and then considering backing out of their commitments. Francis made his comments aboard the plane returning from a trip to the French port city of Marseilles. He was responding …

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By Michelle Nichols and Gabriela Baczynska UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday portrayed the United States and Europe as “looking down” on the rest of the world amid a battle to win over developing countries, and said that while Moscow does not reject U.N. efforts to revive a Black Sea grain …

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WARSAW (Reuters) – Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy awarded two Polish volunteers state awards during a stopover on Saturday, but did not meet any officials as relations between the two countries are strained over grain imports. Poland decided last week to extend a ban on Ukrainian grain imports, shaking Kyiv’s relationship with a neighbour that has …

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