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Dec 10 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday Ukraine had agreed on key points of a post-war reconstruction plan in talks with U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and other top officials amid moves to clinch an overall settlement of the nearly four-year-old war. Zelenskiy said he had held talks focusing on an …

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By Tom Balmforth and Jonathan Saul LONDON, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Ukrainian sea drones on Wednesday hit and disabled a tanker involved in trading Russian oil as it sailed through Ukraine’s exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea to the Russian port of Novorossiysk, a Ukrainian official said. The attack is the third sea drone …

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By Anatolii Stepanov DOBROPILLIA, Ukraine, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Kateryna Lomova, 97, stood her ground as police rescuers and family members begged her to evacuate her ramshackle home in an area of eastern Ukraine battered by Russian artillery, bombs and drones fired from some 15 km (nine miles) away. “No, no – I won’t go …

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By Christine Chen SYDNEY, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Australian teenagers have taken to social media for the last time to farewell their followers and mourn the loss of the platforms that shaped much of their lives before a world-first ban took effect on Wednesday. In the hours leading up to the ban’s midnight start (1300 …

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By Krisztina Than BUDAPEST, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Hungary’s government has put state-run juvenile detention centres under direct police oversight, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff said on Wednesday, trying to stem the political fallout from an abuse scandal at one such facility. Opposition leader Peter Magyar, whose Tisza party is leading opinion polls …

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By Gwladys Fouche OSLO, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Exiled Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya accused President Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday of using political prisoners as bargaining chips and said the U.S. needs to use both incentives and pressure as it negotiates with the veteran authoritarian leader. President Donald Trump has ordered his special envoy to …

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