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ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia intends to develop military and technical cooperation with “friendly countries” with whom Moscow wants to jointly produce arms and train military personnel. In a speech at Russia’s showcase economic forum in St Petersburg, Putin said Moscow also planned to modernise its own armed …

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Former Netherlands international Quincy Promes has been extradited by the United Arab Emirates to the Netherlands, where he is to serve jail sentences for drug trafficking and assault, Dutch prosecutors said on Friday. A Dutch court last year sentenced the former Ajax Amsterdam and Spartak Moscow forward to six years in absentia for …

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By Alvise Armellini ROME (Reuters) -The numbers of Italians leaving their country and of foreigners moving in have soared to the highest in a decade, official data showed on Friday, fuelling national concerns about brain drain, economic decline and immigration. Italy has a right-wing government elected in 2022 on a mandate to curb migrant arrivals, …

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By Charlotte Van Campenhout BRUSSELS -Belgium will introduce border checks on people coming into the country to clamp down on illegal migration, the government said, in another limit on free movement across Europe’s Schengen zone. The restrictions in the country that borders the Netherlands, France, Luxembourg and Germany will start this summer, a spokesperson for …

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By Guy Faulconbridge and Dmitry Antonov ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) -The Kremlin warned on Friday that the Middle East was plunging into “an abyss of instability and war” and said Moscow was worried by events and still stood ready to mediate. Russia, which has warm ties with Iran and also maintains close links to Israel, …

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ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) -Russia expects to agree with Ukraine next week on a date for a third round of peace talks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky, who heads the Russian delegation, is in contact with his Ukrainian counterpart, Peskov said. Resuming negotiations after a gap of more than …

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