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WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland’s government plans to run adverts ahead of some screenings of the prize-winning refugee drama “Green Border” to defend its treatment of migrants crossing the frontier from Belarus, a minister said on Thursday. Directed by veteran Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland, the film has drawn a furious response from conservatives in Poland ahead of …

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By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK (Reuters) – The head of the European Investment Bank (EIB) has warned his soon-to-be-announced successor that bowing to pressure from some EU capitals to fund weapons for Ukraine would put the bank on the “wrong track”. Werner Hoyer will step down from the EU’s powerful lending arm at the end …

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ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he does not agree with the negative approach other leaders are showing towards his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Turkish broadcasters quoted him as saying on Thursday. Speaking to reporters in New York after attending the United Nations General Assembly, Erdogan said Russia was not a country that …

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By Olena Harmash and Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -Russia on Thursday launched its biggest missile attack in weeks on Kyiv and across Ukraine, wounding at least 18 people, damaging energy facilities and causing power cuts, Ukrainian authorities said. Partial power cuts were reported in five Ukrainian regions in the west, centre and east, bringing back …

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WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland is no longer arming Ukraine as it is focusing on building up its own stocks of weapons, the prime minister said on Wednesday, as Warsaw’s stance towards Kyiv shifts just weeks before an election. Poland has been one of Ukraine’s staunchest allies since Russia invaded the country in February 2022, but …

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BUCHAREST (Reuters) – An explosion killed four people and injured five more at a gas pipeline on a motorway construction site in the eastern Romanian county of Vrancea early on Thursday, a government emergency response unit said. The fire has since been extinguished and the injured were taken to the hospital. Investigators are looking into …

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By Jan Lopatka and Radovan Stoklasa BANOVCE NAD BEBRAVOU, Slovakia (Reuters) – “We are a peaceful country. We will not send a single round to Ukraine.” That was Robert Fico’s blunt message for some 300 supporters at a political rally last week in the western Slovakian town of Banovce nad Bebravou, ahead of a Sept. …

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