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(Reuters) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday it appeared no European countries were conducting a proper investigation into the series of explosions that ruptured the Nord Stream gas pipelines in September. “After the explosions on Nord Stream – which, it appears nobody in the European Union is going to objectively investigate – Russia …

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By Tom Balmforth and Oleksandr Kozhukhar KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made a surprise trip to troops in the battered eastern frontline city of Bakhmut on Tuesday, underlining Russia’s stuttering but persistent attempts to capture it. In contrast, Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded medals inside the comfort of the Kremlin to the Russian-appointed leaders …

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(Reuters) – The Slovak parliament will approve the 2023 state budget this week, enabling the government to help people hit by soaring energy prices, Prime Minister Eduard Heger said on Tuesday. Approving the budget in time appeared unlikely after Heger’s minority centre-right government lost a no-confidence vote in parliament last Thursday. His cabinet has been …

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By Michael Kahn and Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska PRAGUE/WARSAW (Reuters) – Many of the millions of Ukrainian refugees in central and eastern Europe plan to mark Christmas early this year in solidarity with their hosts, learning carols in new languages to generate holiday cheer despite fears for relatives back home. Ukrainians generally celebrate Christmas on January 7 …

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By Jon Nazca IZNALLOZ, Spain (Reuters) – Five Iberian lynx have been released into the wild in southern Spain this week as part of an expanding breeding programme aimed at conserving one of the world’s most endangered feline species with distinctive long black ear tufts. Darting out of their crates one by one, Saturno and …

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By Maria Alejandra Cardona and Jared Higgs NASSAU (Reuters) – FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has signed legal papers paving the way for his extradition from The Bahamas to the United States, where he faces fraud charges over the cryptocurrency exchange’s collapse, a Bahamas official said on Tuesday. Doan Cleare, The Bahamas’ acting commissioner of Corrections, …

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States and Britain on Tuesday condemned an announcement by Afghanistan’s Taliban administration that it was suspending access to universities for female students. The announcement came as the U.N. Security Council met in New York on Afghanistan. U.S. and British U.N. envoys both condemned the move during the council meeting. …

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