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By Mathieu Rosemain and Benjamin Mallet PARIS (Reuters) – Industrial action in France over the government’s planned pensions overhaul will cause heavy disruption to public transport again on Tuesday, the transport minister and several public transport authorities said on Sunday. For the sixth time since the start of the year, unions are calling for a …

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BELGRADE (Reuters) – Hundreds of Serb nationalists and Orthodox Christians marched in Belgrade on Sunday to protest against a Western plan aimed at mending ties between Serbia and its former province Kosovo. Many Serbs view Kosovo, home to the Serbian Orthodox faith’s main churches and monasteries, as the heartland of the Serb nation. Serbian nationalists …

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KUWAIT (Reuters) – Kuwait’s crown prince re-appointed Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf al-Sabah as prime minister and asked him to nominate a cabinet, state news agency KUNA reported on Sunday, more than a month after the government resigned due to renewed friction with parliament. A long-running standoff between the government and the elected parliament has hampered efforts …

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By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought on Sunday to soften international outcry over a call by a far-right member of his cabinet for a flashpoint Palestinian village to be “erased”, saying those remarks had been “inappropriate”. But Netanyahu also pushed back against censure of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, accusing …

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DOHA (Reuters) – Qatar’s emir said on Sunday he was puzzled by the delay in delivering aid to victims of last month’s earthquake in Syria, adding that it was wrong to abuse humanitarian aid for political purposes, in an apparent swipe at the Syrian government. Qatar was among several regional states that backed rebels in …

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ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday that Ankara is working hard to extend a U.N.-backed initiative that has enabled Ukraine to export grain from ports blockaded by Russia following its invasion. The Black Sea Grain Initiative brokered by the United Nations and Turkey last July allowed grain to be exported …

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By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) -Iran has given sweeping assurances to the U.N. nuclear watchdog that it will finally assist a long-stalled investigation into uranium particles found at undeclared sites and even re-install removed monitoring equipment, the watchdog said on Saturday. The International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran issued a joint statement on IAEA chief …

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By Angeliki Koutantou and Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) -Rescuers continued digging through debris on Saturday at the site of Greece’s worst train crash but were expected to wrap up their search operation later in the day. At least 57 people were killed and dozens were injured on Tuesday when a passenger train with more than …

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