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(Reuters) -Germany and its allies will move to confiscate frozen Russian assets if legally possible, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in an interview with the Zeit newspaper published on Thursday. There are also discussions about more sanctions against Russia in the energy sector, banking sector, and further actions regarding sanctions against individuals, Merz said. A possible …

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By Vladimir Soldatkin ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Vladimir Medinsky, the head of Russia’s delegation at peace talks on Ukraine in Turkey, said on Thursday that Moscow’s aim was to secure a long-lasting peace with Kyiv by looking for common ground and removing the reasons for the conflict. Medinsky, who helped lead 2022 talks which collapsed, said …

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By Luiza Ilie BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Bucharest’s centrist mayor Nicusor Dan, a quiet mathematician, will face off against the hard-right contender in Sunday’s presidential run-off vote, trying to keep Romania on its pro-European Union path and cool market nerves by forming a government. A recent survey showed Dan, 55, was neck-and-neck with eurosceptic frontrunner George …

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ANKARA (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan told Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Ankara on Thursday that Turkey was ready to host him and Russia’s Vladimir Putin for peace talks “when they are ready”, his office said. Erdogan met Zelenskiy in the Turkish capital after Putin had sent a second-tier team of negotiators to hold peace talks …

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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday a proposed meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin could be skipped if an agreement on a ceasefire between the two countries is agreed during technical talks in Istanbul. The Ukrainian leader told a press conference in Ankara that if Moscow failed to show any willingness …

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