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BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s new food standards deal with the European Union to prevent border checks on agricultural produce such as meat and dairy will further ease contentious post-Brexit trade frictions between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom. The Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) agreement, a key part of Monday’s wider reset in relations, …

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(Reuters) – Britain agreed the most significant reset of relations with the European Union since Brexit on Monday, with both sides hailing deals on everything from trade and migration to security and defence. Below are the main points agreed. DEFENCE AND SECURITY PACT Britain’s Labour government and the EU clinched a defence and security pact …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone on Monday, the third officially announced call this year between the presidents of the United States and Russia.  How often do they speak, how do they speak and what are their positions on the war?  HOW OFTEN HAVE THEY SPOKEN? After Trump’s inauguration in January, …

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(Reuters) – Five people were killed on Saturday when two helicopters collided and crashed in a wooded area near Eura Airport in southwestern Finland, police said. Police said the mid-air collision occurred shortly after noon near the town of Kauttua, with the wreckage falling some 700 metres (yards) from the Ohikulkutie road. “Five people have …

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WARSAW (Reuters) -Polish officials have seized 5 metric tons of tyres for Boeing passenger planes that were due to transit through Belarus and Russia, in what Poland’s tax and customs office on Monday said constituted a breach of European sanctions. Western countries have imposed broad-ranging sanctions against Russia and its ally Belarus since Moscow’s February …

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By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President JD Vance met on Monday at the Vatican with Pope Leo XIV, the first leader of the global Catholic Church from the United States, and extended an invitation for Leo to make an official visit home. Vance, who was sharply criticised by the late Pope Francis …

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By Elizaveta Gladun BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania’s European allies and markets welcomed centrist Nicusor Dan’s presidential election victory over a eurosceptic hard-right rival on Sunday, relieved that the European Union member had avoided a lurch to a Donald Trump-inspired political path. Dan, a softly-spoken 55-year-old mathematician and Bucharest mayor, won 54% of votes in the …

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