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By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would want to know what Ukraine planned to do with U.S.-made Tomahawk missiles before agreeing to supply them because he does not want to escalate Russia’s war against Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has asked the U.S. to sell Tomahawks to European …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Andrew Mills SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) -Delegations from Israel and Hamas held their first day of indirect negotiations in Egypt on Monday on U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to halt the war in Gaza, wrestling with contentious issues such as demands that Israel withdraw and Hamas disarm. Israel and Hamas have …

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By Felix Light TBILISI (Reuters) -Georgian prosecutors on Monday charged five opposition figures with attempting to overthrow the government, after protests on Saturday culminated in clashes between police and demonstrators in the capital of the South Caucasus country of 3.7 million. Georgian opposition supporters rallied in central Tbilisi on Saturday, with some leaders promising a …

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BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -Heads of state will begin arriving in the Amazon city of Belem in a month for the United Nations climate summit, but the infrastructure meant to receive them remains unfinished. Alongside what has been dubbed the “leaders village,” a series of several low-slung buildings that will house many of the visiting presidents, …

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By Elizabeth Pineau, Michel Rose and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday tasked his outgoing prime minister, who had resigned earlier in the day, to hold last-ditch talks with other political parties to try to chart a path out of the crisis. Sebastien Lecornu had tendered his government’s resignation only hours …

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By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen faced bids to remove her for the second time in three months when hard-right and left groups in the European Parliament presented no-confidence motions on Monday. Although the motions of censure have almost no chance of reaching the two-thirds majority required to unseat …

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By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Leo cancelled the Vatican bank’s sole authority over investments held by the city-state on Monday, rolling back one of the financial reforms of his predecessor Francis. In a short decree, Leo said the Vatican bank, known officially as Institute for the Works of Religion, would no longer control …

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