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PRAGUE (Reuters) -Foreign donors have provided 93.3 billion crowns ($4.5 billion) to a Czech-led initiative to find and deliver large-calibre ammunition to Ukraine, and the Czech Republic has contributed 1.7 billion crowns, Defence Minister Jana Cernochova said on Wednesday. Increased ammunition supplies in 2024 and 2025 have helped reduce Ukraine’s disadvantage compared with Russia on …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Germany will spend 10 billion euros($11.62 billion)in coming years for all kinds of drones, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said at a meeting of NATO defence ministers in Brussels. He also said that Germany will offer to take the lead in an European Union air defence shield and that Germany will increase its …

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By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang welcomed Avinatan Or from “two unimaginable years in Hamas captivity” in Gaza, saying a number of the chip giant’s families had suffered losses during the war. An electrical engineer at Nvidia in Israel, 32-year-old Or was kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023 …

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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday appointed a former regional governor to lead Ukraine’s Black Sea port city Odesa after revoking the citizenship of the former mayor, prompting his automatic dismissal. The appointment of Serhiy Lysak, who had led the Dnipropetrovsk region, came a day after the removal of mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov over …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Wednesday that the BRICS group of nations has never targeted third countries or their currencies, rejecting U.S. President Donald Trump’s assertion that the bloc was designed to undermine the dollar. Trump on Tuesday described BRICS as “an attack on the dollar” and spoke of his threat to impose tariffs …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Belgium’s Defence Minister Theo Francken said on Wednesday the Belgian and Dutch governments will sign a missile defense systems agreement. “We will sign an agreement with the Netherlands to have .. (a) missile defense system. It will be the NASAMS system, the Norwegian System. We will buy NASAMS to protect our skies,” Francken …

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By John Revill ZURICH (Reuters) -A Swiss referendum on a proposal to impose a 50% tax on inherited fortunes of 50 million Swiss francs ($62.53 million) is likely to be rejected by voters, a poll showed on Wednesday. Two-thirds of respondents opposed the initiative seeking to raise funds to help combat climate change, with only …

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