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By Anthony Deutsch and Stephanie van den Berg AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Ukraine is investigating the alleged role of Belarus in the forced transfer of children from Russian-occupied territories, the office of the prosecutor general told Reuters on Tuesday. The announcement came in response to a report by the exiled Belarusian opposition alleging that 2,150 Ukrainian …

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(Reuters) – Ukraine’s State Security Service (SBU) said it has launched a criminal investigation into Andrei Ruzinsky, a Russian commander Reuters identified last year as helping lead the military occupation of eastern Ukraine. Ruzinsky was commander of the Russian Baltic Fleet’s 11th Army Corps, which crossed into Ukraine in early 2022 and took control of …

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ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek leftist leader Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday turned down a mandate to form a coalition government, saying that he was preparing for a second election in June, after a “painful” electoral defeat for his Syriza party. The conservative New Democracy party stormed to victory with 40.8% of the vote in Sunday’s poll …

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MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish police detained four men on Tuesday in connection with an incident in which an effigy representing Brazilian soccer star Vinicius Jr was hung from a bridge in January, a day after a senior official said Spanish football had a racism problem. A hate crime investigation was opened after the effigy wearing winger …

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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark will allocate an extra 5 billion Danish crowns ($739.23 million) per year to improve its healthcare system, including 400 million crowns for cancer treatment, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said at a news conference on Tuesday. (This story has been refiled to make clear that figure is “per year” in paragraph 1) …

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By Burcu Karakas and Huseyin Hayatsever ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s third-place election candidate endorsed President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday, boosting the incumbent and intensifying the challenges for opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu in a Sunday runoff vote. Sinan Ogan, a hardline nationalist who was little known among the broader public before the campaign, won 5.2% support …

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By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Russia said on Monday it was battling a cross-border incursion by saboteurs who burst through the frontier from Ukraine, in what appeared to be one of the biggest attacks of its kind since the war began 15 months ago. The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said a Ukrainian …

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By Elvira Pollina and Supantha Mukherjee MILAN/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Italy’s data protection authority Garante plans to review other artificial intelligence platforms and hire AI experts, a top official said, as it ramps up scrutiny of the powerful technology after temporarily banning ChatGPT in March. Garante is among the most proactive of the 31 national data …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Roman Protasevich, the Belarusian opposition blogger arrested in 2021 after his Ryanair overflight was forced to land in Minsk, was pardoned on Monday, the Belarusian state news agency BelTA reported. “I have literally just signed all the relevant documents stating that I have been pardoned,” BelTA quoted Protasevich as telling reporters. “This is, …

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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s military intelligence service blamed an armed operation in Russia’s Belgorod region on Monday on “opposition-minded Russian citizens” from two paramilitary groups, Ukrainian media outlet Hromadske said. Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said a Ukrainian army “sabotage group” had entered Russian territory in the Graivoron district, which borders Ukraine. Hromadske quoted military intelligence …

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