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By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) -France, Britain and Germany told Iran on Thursday that they would restore U.N. sanctions unless it reopened talks on its nuclear programme immediately and produced concrete results by the end of August. The foreign ministers of the so-called E3, along with the European Union’s foreign policy chief, held their first …

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By Guy Faulconbridge, Andrew Osborn and Dmitry Antonov MOSCOW (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to ramp up arms shipments to Ukraine is a signal to Kyiv to abandon peace efforts, Russia said on Thursday, vowing it would not accept the “blackmail” of Washington’s new sanctions ultimatum. Trump announced a toughened stance on Russia’s war …

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(Reuters) -A cockpit recording of dialogue between the two pilots of the Air India flight that crashed last month supports the view that the captain cut the flow of fuel to the plane’s engines, said a source briefed on U.S. officials’ early assessment of evidence. Below is a brief profile of the two pilots based …

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KYIV (Reuters) -Parliament approved Yulia Svyrydenko as Ukraine’s new prime minister on Thursday and backed her plan to cut the number of ministries, merging some of the main portfolios, to save funds in wartime. With the new government, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is trying to wrestle wartime defence spending into shape and win over both U.S. …

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By Steve Holland and Christian Martinez WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House said on Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump is experiencing swelling in his lower legs and bruising on his right hand, after photographs emerged of Trump with swollen ankles and makeup covering the afflicted part of his hand. White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt, reading …

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By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -Israel has demanded the U.N. Human Rights Council scrap a commission investigating rights violations in the Palestinian territories and Israel, accusing the body of bias, in a letter seen by Reuters. In the message sent on Wednesday, Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Daniel Meron, said The Independent International Commission …

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By Timour Azhari and Humeyra Pamuk DAMASCUS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States said on Thursday it did not support recent Israeli strikes on Syria and had made clear its displeasure, while Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa accused Israel of trying to fracture his country and promised to protect its Druze minority. On Wednesday, Israel launched airstrikes in …

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