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PARIS (Reuters) – French former president Nicolas Sarkozy lost his appeal against a 2021 conviction for corruption and influence peddling at the Paris Court of Appeals on Wednesday, a decision his legal team said he would challenge. Known in France as the “wiretapping affair”, the courts found that Sarkozy had conspired to secure a plum …

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(Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that White House officials had requested the release of detained Americans Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan in conversations with a Kremlin official. In an interview with a Russian TV channel, Lavrov said White House officials “sometimes call” Yury Ushakov, a presidential aide specialising in foreign …

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By Vincent West ORIO, Spain (Reuters) -Two people – a man and woman – died in an explosion in the town of Orio in northern Spain, the Basque regional security department said on Tuesday, and media cited authorities as saying the incident was being investigated as likely gender-based violence. A department spokesperson said the blast …

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MILAN (Reuters) – An Italian court on Tuesday agreed to extradite to Belgium an EU lawmaker under investigation in a cash-for-influence corruption scandal at the European Parliament, one of his lawyers said. The scandal, the biggest to rock European Union politics in decades, hinges on suspicions that Qatar and Morocco bribed politicians, parliamentary assistants and …

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By Daren Butler and Ezgi Erkoyun ISTANBUL (Reuters) -President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called Turkish voters to support him in a May 28 election runoff to maintain stability in Turkey, as he seeks to extend his rule into a third decade. Erdogan got 49.5% in Sunday’s vote and fell just short of the majority needed …

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BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary did not approve the disbursement of the next tranche of military support for Ukraine provided under the EU’s European Peace Facility (EPF), a government spokesman’s office said on Tuesday. The EPF, created in 2021, is an off-budget instrument aimed at enhancing the EU’s ability to prevent conflicts, build peace and strengthen …

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DRESDEN, Germany (Reuters) – A German court on Tuesday sentenced five men to several years behind bars for their involvement in a jewel heist in 2019 at a museum in Dresden which houses one of Europe’s greatest art collections. The pieces stolen from the break-in at the Gruenes Gewoelbe (Green Vault) museum in Dresden contained …

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By Andreas Rinke and Michel Rose REYKJAVIK (Reuters) -European leaders are meeting in Iceland on Tuesday for a two-day summit meant to show their support for Ukraine but also send a powerful message on core democratic values many feel are under threat. In only the fourth summit of the Council of Europe (CoE) since it …

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