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By Jan Lopatka (Reuters) -Slovakia’s laws will take precedence over EU legislation in matters concerning “national identity”, including issues of family and gender, under a constitutional change approved by parliament on Friday. Prime Minister Robert Fico, who has taken an increasingly anti-liberal position on social issues while forging closer ties with Russia and China on …

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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Leo named a relatively unknown Italian cleric on Friday to lead the Vatican office responsible for selecting Catholic bishops around the world, in the first major appointment of the pontiff’s nearly five-month tenure. Archbishop Filippo Iannone, 67, has largely led a behind-the-scenes career in Church law. He will take charge of …

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BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Romania aims to partner Ukraine to build drones under a new European Union defence funding mechanism, but it will be at least seven years before the country has a multi-layered air defence system, a government source said. The EU and NATO state shares a 650 km (400 miles) land border with Ukraine and …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Belarus is proposing to build a nuclear power plant in the east of the country that could supply electricity to Russian-controlled parts of Ukraine, President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday. Lukashenko put the idea to Russian President Vladimir Putin at Kremlin talks in Moscow. “If a decision is made, we will immediately begin …

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By Ahmad Al Kerdi and Laila Bassam BEIRUT (Reuters) -This time last year, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was consumed by rage over Israel’s detonation of pagers worn by members of his group throughout Lebanon, according to his son. Days later, Nasrallah himself was assassinated by Israel. The pager explosions and Nasrallah’s killing in an Israeli …

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