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PARIS (Reuters) – France’s national financial prosecutor (PNF) is investigating a government-funded organisation that has been accused of using public money to slander politicians, it said in a statement on Thursday. Opposition politicians have accused Fond Marianne, a government fund set up to combat what the French government calls Islamic “separatism”, of creating videos slandering …

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By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Russia said on Thursday that the United States was behind an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin aiming to kill President Vladimir Putin, and air raid sirens sounded again in Kyiv as darkness fell following attacks the previous night. Reuters witnesses heard gunfire and repeated heavier explosions near the centre …

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(Reuters) – Belize Prime Minister Johnny Briceno said the country is “quite likely” to be the next state to leave the Commonwealth and become a republic, The Guardian newspaper reported on Thursday, days before Britain crowns its next monarch. Similar interest has been shown by the Bahamas and Antigua and Barbuda, fellow Caribbean members of …

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By Lisa Barrington DUBAI (Reuters) – The United Nations on Thursday fell far short of raising the money it needs for an operation to salvage 1.1 million barrels of oil from a decaying vessel moored off Yemen’s coast and avert an environmental disaster. U.N. officials have been warning for years that the Red Sea and …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Azerbaijan and Armenia have made “tangible progress” towards reaching a consensus in talks over the past few days, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday, adding a final agreement was within sight. Washington is hosting this week the foreign ministers of the two South Caucasus rivals. Tensions between them have …

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WASHINGTON – The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of a sonar system and related equipment to Australia in a deal valued at up to $207 million, the Pentagon said on Thursday. The Pentagon said Lockheed Martin was the prime contractor for the Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System Expeditionary mission systems for Vessels …

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By Crispian Balmer and John Irish ROME/PARIS (Reuters) -Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani called off a trip to Paris on Thursday, saying the French interior minister had offended Italy and its Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni with unacceptable “insults”. Earlier, the French minister, Gerald Darmanin, told RMC radio that Meloni was “unable to solve the migration …

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BELGRADE (Reuters) – The Serbian government said it had introduced a set of measures on Thursday to prevent potential violence in schools a day after a 13-year-old boy shot and killed eight students and a guard in a Belgrade elementary school. The shooter took guns belonging to his father and went to school where he …

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BEIRUT (Reuters) – The brother of Lebanon’s central bank governor appeared on Thursday at a hearing in Beirut with European investigators probing whether the siblings embezzled and laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds over more than a decade, a judicial source said. Governor Riad Salameh is being investigated alongside his brother Raja …

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