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By Jake Cordell TBILISI (Reuters) – A Georgian court on Monday rejected an appeal to release former President Mikheil Saakashvili from prison on health grounds, a decision the ex-leader said was akin to a “death sentence.” Saakashvili, who led the former Soviet republic as a pro-Western reformer from 2004 to 2013, is serving a six-year …

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By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) – Kosovo’s prime minister Albin Kurti said on Monday he accepted a proposed European Union plan aimed at normalising relations with Serbia despite concerns over Western demands to give more rights to local Serbs that have so far hindered a peace deal. Last month Western envoys told Kosovo and Serbia …

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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s main Catholic church said on Monday it would move to a new calendar that would see Christmas celebrated on Dec. 25 rather than Jan. 7, amid an effort by Ukrainian institutions to break cultural links to Russia. The move by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), which counts just under a …

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By Ali Sawafta JERICHO, West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli forces killed five Hamas militants on Monday during a raid on a refugee camp near the occupied West Bank city of Jericho, the Palestinian armed group and Israeli sources said. Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said it would avenge the death of its members killed …

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(Reuters) -Ukraine is set to replace Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov with the chief of its military spy agency, a close ally of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday, in a reshuffle at the forefront of Ukraine’s war campaign. Reznikov would be transferred to another ministerial job and replaced by Kyrylo Budanov, head of the GUR …

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PARIS (Reuters) – French train and air services are expected to be heavily disrupted on Tuesday by a nationwide strike against pension reforms, the national railway and civil aviation authorities said on Sunday. Rail operator SNCF said that only around half of the usual number of high-speed rail services on domestic lines would be running, …

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s justice minister said on Sunday he would not freeze “for even a minute” the legislative process for proposed judicial reforms that have drawn widespread condemnation both domestically and globally. Israel’s Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s comments to Hebrew media’s Channel 13 followed a statement earlier in the day from Israeli president Isaac …

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(Reuters) – Fierce battles are raging in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region as Russia intensifies pressure before the first anniversary of its invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday. “Things are very difficult in Donetsk region – fierce battles,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address. “But however difficult it is and however much …

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