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By Charlotte Van Campenhout BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib were quizzed by lawmakers on Wednesday after delegations from Iranian and Russian cities were granted visas to attend a mayors’ convention in Brussels last week. Lahbib especially is under scrutiny for having approved visas requests for citizens …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Wednesday restated its position that there are “no grounds” to extend the Black Sea grain deal, saying that the Turkish- and United Nations-brokered accord was not being properly implemented. On a call with reporters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the U.N. had been forced to acknowledge that “unfortunately, they …

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MADRID (Reuters) – A pregnant woman died trying to reach Spain’s Canary islands, the country’s coastguard said on Tuesday, after her body was found on a dinghy carrying around 50 migrants near the Atlantic coast of Lanzarote. A fishing boat had spotted the migrants near Lanzarote’s Los Cocoteros beach, the coastguard added. The woman’s body …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The governor of Russia’s central bank Elvira Nabiullina said on Wednesday that there were no reasons for Russia to be added to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) blacklist. Speaking at a session of Russia’s upper house of parliament, Nabiullina said that adding Russia to the list would have negative consequences for …

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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Turkey’s parliament should begin to ratify Sweden’s bid to join NATO because Stockholm has now met its obligations under an accord with Ankara on joining the Western military alliance, Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said on Wednesday. Last year Sweden and Finland both reversed decades of military non-alignment and applied to join NATO …

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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced a new framework for war risk insurance on Wednesday, aimed at helping businesses invest in Ukraine. “This is a huge step forward towards helping insurers to underwrite investments into Ukraine, removing one of the biggest barriers and giving investors the confidence they need to act,” Sunak …

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(Reuters) – Belarus, an ally of Russia in the war with Ukraine, said on Wednesday that its armed forces were beginning 10 days of annual “mobilisation exercises”. The Belarus defence ministry said the exercises were aimed at assessing the degree of preparation of state institutions to mobilise reservists. All Belarusian men must perform military service, …

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