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By Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) – European governments should halt welfare benefits to Ukrainian men of military age who are living in their countries, Poland’s foreign minister said, a measure he said would help Ukraine call up more troops to fight Russian forces. Following a meeting in Kyiv with his Ukrainian counterpart, Poland’s Radoslaw Sikorski …

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KYIV (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden is looking forward to discussing Ukraine’s war strategy with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy this month and Washington is working on a “substantial” new aid package, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Saturday. Zelenskiy has said he wants to present a “victory plan” that could push Russia …

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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s opposition conservatives have achieved their highest nationwide poll rating in three and a half years, according to a weekly survey conducted by INSA for German publication Bild am Sonntag. The Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) climbed to 33%, from 31% in the previous week. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is polling in …

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PRAGUE (Reuters) – Ukraine would have a good military reason to strike deeper into Russia using Western weapons, a senior NATO military official said on Saturday. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House on Friday as Ukraine’s allies discuss whether to give a go-ahead for Kyiv to use …

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ROME (Reuters) – The foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) industrialised powers condemned on Saturday “in the strongest terms” Iran’s export and Russia’s procurement of Iranian ballistic missiles. Iran has provided Russia with a large number of powerful surface-to-surface ballistic missiles, deepening the military cooperation between the two countries, which are both under …

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ROME (Reuters) – An Italian prosecutor on Saturday asked a judge to sentence right-wing League leader Matteo Salvini to six years in prison over his 2019 decision to prevent more than 100 migrants from landing in the country. The then interior minister, who is currently serving as deputy prime minister and transport minister in Giorgia …

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BERLIN (Reuters) – NATO could have done more to arm Ukraine to try to prevent Russia’s invasion in 2022, the outgoing head of the Western military alliance said in an interview released on Saturday. “Now we provide military stuff to a war – then we could have provided military stuff to prevent the war,” NATO …

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By Andrew Osborn and Lucy Papachristou LONDON (Reuters) -Splits in Russia’s opposition in exile have widened sharply, shifting their focus from political activism to infighting after allies of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny accused another opposition figure of ordering attacks on their activists. The scandal undermines already troubled efforts to forge a united front against …

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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet U.S. President Joe Biden for talks on Friday on the next steps in supporting Ukraine, centring on whether to allow Western missiles to be used to hit targets in Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been pleading with allies for months to let Ukraine fire …

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