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By Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) – French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who is narrowing the gap with Emmanuel Macron in polls ahead of Sunday’s presidential election, went out of her way on Tuesday to stress how “reasonable” she is, focusing on further detoxifying her image. Le Pen, whom Macron easily beat with two thirds …

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By Stephen Farrell and Vira Labych LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Bucha lies heavy on Luidmyla Nazarova’s mind these last few days, as she stacks humanitarian aid bound for the devastated Ukrainian city where, she just learned, her uncle was killed by Russian troops. A refugee herself, the 45-year-old political consultant said she fled Kyiv when …

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BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Five people were killed and more than 10 injured when a pick-up truck crashed into a train in southern Hungary early on Tuesday, derailing a carriage, police said. The accident happened at a crossing in Mindszent near the Hungarian-Serbian border shortly before 0500 GMT. Five people in the truck were killed and there …

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LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday Ukraine had no option but to negotiate with Russia to end fighting but that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin might not personally hold talks. Zelenskiy was speaking after accusing Russian troops of carrying out extra-judicial killings in the town of Bucha west of the …

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By Juliette Jabkhiro ALLONNES, France (Reuters) – For three years, Karim Daoud ran the mosque in this small town in northwest France. He also coached kids’ soccer teams and for more than two decades has worked for the local council’s youth services. Daoud was among those who visited a nearby Catholic church to express solidarity …

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The al Shabaab group linked to al Qaeda plans to target Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble, the country’s intelligence agency warned on Tuesday. Violence by the group, which aims to topple the central government and impose its own severe version of Islamic law, has been an …

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PARIS (Reuters) – The European Union will most likely adopt a new round of sanctions against Russia on Wednesday after reports of killings of civilians in northern Ukraine by Russian forces, said France’s European Affairs Minister Clement Beaune. “The new sanctions will probably be adopted tomorrow”, he told RFI radio on Tuesday, adding the EU …

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By Tilman Blasshofer and Sarah Marsh FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Eight decades after Raisa Valiushkevych fled Ukraine to escape Nazi Germany’s invasion, the 98-year-old Holocaust survivor found herself fleeing again – this time to Germany, to escape Russian shells falling around her home in Kyiv. Speaking at a Jewish care home in Frankfurt, the retired teacher …

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