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ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece has prepared legislation that will introduce tougher penalties for rejected asylum seekers and speed up returns to their home countries, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday. The Mediterranean nation was on the frontline of a 2015-2016 migration crisis when more than a million people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle …

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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that Ukraine and Germany had reached new agreements on defence sector investments. Zelenskiy, who was speaking in Berlin alongside German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, did not give further details. Kyiv has increasingly sought money from its allies to fund its own burgeoning defence industry. (Reporting by Yuliia …

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BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s government approved measures to restrict family reunification for migrants and delay citizenship access on Wednesday, forging ahead with a major shift in migration policy under conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz. The cabinet agreed to a two-year suspension of the right for migrants who do not qualify for full refugee status, so called “subsidiary …

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By John Geddie TOKYO (Reuters) -The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said on Wednesday Israel’s model for providing aid to Gaza was wasteful and a “distraction from atrocities”, criticising a chaotic distribution by a U.S.-backed foundation this week. On Tuesday, thousands of Palestinians rushed an aid distribution site set up in the …

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ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey’s foreign minister will travel to Kyiv on Thursday for a two-day visit after discussing peace efforts to end Russia’s war in Ukraine in Moscow earlier this week, a Turkish Foreign Ministry source said on Wednesday. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan held talks in Moscow on Monday and Tuesday, meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin …

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