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By Robert Muller and Kate Abnett PRAGUE/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Transport ministers from the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia on Monday discussed their push to change proposed European Union vehicle emissions limits. The proposed Euro 7 law, which EU countries and lawmakers will start negotiating this year, would tighten limits on health-harming …

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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – One of President Vladimir Putin’s top allies said on Monday that the United States and Britain were sowing deceptions that a pro-Ukrainian group blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines on the bed of the Baltic Sea last year. Last week the New York Times reported that intelligence reviewed …

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By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis marks 10 years as head of the Roman Catholic Church on Monday celebrating Mass with cardinals in the chapel of the Vatican’s Santa Marta hotel where he has lived since his election. The Argentina-born Francis, 86, became the first Latin American pontiff on March 13, 2013, succeeding …

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BERLIN (Reuters) – Berlin, Bremen and Hamburg airports said no commercial flights would take off on Monday due to a strike by trade union Verdi over pay. “Due to the warning strike by employees at the aviation security controls, no commercial departures will take place at BER today, March 13. Incoming flights may also be …

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(Reuters) -Both Ukraine and Russia on Sunday reported high casualties in Ukraine’s Donbas region, the focus of Moscow’s slow, long-running advance into its neighbour’s territory. Much of the fighting in the east has centred on Bakhmut, largely destroyed in months of attacks and shelling by Russia during the year-old conflict. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary force said in an interview published over the weekend that he had ambitions to turn his private military company into an “army with an ideology” that would fight for justice in Russia. Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s fighters – some of them convicts – have spearheaded the …

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(Reuters) – Russian forces suffered more than 1,100 dead in less than a week of battles near the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, the focal point of fighting in eastern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday. “In less than a week, starting from 6th March, we managed to kill more than 1,100 enemy soldiers …

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By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) – Police in Moldova kept several thousand demonstrators away from government buildings on Sunday after officials warned of possible organised disorder at the protest, the latest of a series denouncing pro-European President Maia Sandu. The rally followed weeks of competing warnings of impending trouble in ex-Soviet Moldova, where missiles have …

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