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Hungary’s Orban lauds MAGA advance after Nawrocki’s win in Poland

BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday that nationalist Karol Nawrocki’s victory in Poland’s presidential election was “fantastically good”, hailing the success of an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump. Eurosceptic Karol Nawrocki narrowly won the Polish presidential election on Sunday, delivering a big blow to the efforts of Donald Tusk’s centrist …

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Analysis-NATO’s dilemma: how Zelenskiy can attend summit without provoking Trump

By Andrew Gray, Sabine Siebold and Lili Bayer BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Officials organising a NATO summit in The Hague this month are expected to keep it short, restrict discussion of Ukraine, and choreograph meetings so that Volodymyr Zelenskiy can somehow be in town without provoking Donald Trump. Though the Ukrainian president is widely expected to attend …

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Russia sees bleak prospects for expiring nuclear arms pact given ‘ruined’ ties with US

By Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) -Russia sees little chance of saving its last nuclear accord with the United States, due to expire in eight months, given the “ruined” state of relations with Washington, its top arms control official said in an interview published on Friday. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov also told TASS news agency that …

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Polish foreign minister takes aim at Musk after Trump clash

WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland’s foreign minister poked fun at Elon Musk late on Thursday, returning to a social media spat from March after the Tesla and SpaceX boss spectacularly fell out with U.S. President Donald Trump. Warsaw’s top diplomat Radoslaw Sikorski found himself embroiled in an extraordinarily public clash with Musk and U.S. Secretary of State …

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Italians vote on easing citizenship requirements, reversing labour reform

By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – Italians will start voting on Sunday in a two-day referendum on whether to ease citizenship laws and reverse a decade-old liberalisation of the labour market, but the vote may fail to generate sufficient turnout to be deemed valid. Opposition leftist and centrist parties, civil society groups and a leading …

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Australian accused in mushroom murders searched for deadly strain before deaths, court hears

By Alasdair Pal SYDNEY (Reuters) -An Australian woman accused of the murder of three elderly relatives of her estranged husband by feeding them poisonous mushrooms said it was possible she had searched for lethal death cap mushrooms on her computer, a court heard on Friday.  Erin Patterson, 50, is charged with the July 2023 murders …

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EU considers adding Russia to money laundering ‘grey’ list, FT reports

(Reuters) -The European Union is considering adding Russia to its ‘grey’ list of countries with lax money laundering controls, the Financial Times reported on Friday citing officials. A final decision regarding the addition, however, has not been taken yet, the report said, citing European Commission officials. (Reporting by Kanjyik Ghosh; Editing by Himani Sarkar)

Germany’s Merz says he agreed to boost cooperation with White House on trade issues

By Andrea Shalal and Andreas Rinke WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday said Germany, Europe’s largest economy, was ready to take over a greater leadership role on future trade agreements as the United States and the EU race to reach a trade deal before a July 9 deadline. Merz told reporters he had a …

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Trump, Germany’s Merz build ties in friendly meeting on Ukraine and trade

By Andreas Rinke, Andrea Shalal, Sarah Marsh and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz bonded during an amicable White House meeting on Thursday with talks about Ukraine, trade and troops, but none of the fireworks that characterized other Oval Office visits by foreign leaders. Trump described Merz as …

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Trump administration imposes sanctions on four ICC judges in unprecedented move

By Humeyra Pamuk, Stephanie van den Berg WASHINGTON/THE HAGUE (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on four judges at the International Criminal Court, an unprecedented retaliation over the war tribunal’s issuance of an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a past decision to open a case into alleged war …

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