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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration and Belarus are discussing the possible release of at least 100 political prisoners by Minsk soon, three sources familiar with the matter said, in an ongoing rapprochement between the U.S. and the Russian ally. While the authoritarian state has freed dozens of detainees in several waves since …

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KYIV (Reuters) -Senior Ukrainian security official Rustem Umerov, a key figure in peace negotiations with Moscow and Washington, was questioned as a witness by anti-corruption investigators probing Ukraine’s biggest wartime graft scandal, two local media outlets reported. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine invited Umerov to testify as part of its probe of Timur Mindich, …

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By Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS (Reuters) -France’s highest court on Wednesday upheld former President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conviction for illegal campaign financing in his failed 2012 re-election bid, his latest legal setback after recently being jailed for nearly a month in another case. Sarkozy, who served one term as president from 2007 to 2012, was convicted in …

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BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungarian oil and gas company MOL will increase crude oil and fuel deliveries to Serbia after supplies to its Russia-owned NIS refinery were cut due to U.S. sanctions, Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Wednesday. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on NIS in October, as part …

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(Reuters) -Russian authorities must increase the number of people who identify as Russian and speak Russian in the parts of Ukraine incorporated into the country since Moscow’s 2022 invasion, according to a document signed by President Vladimir Putin. The document published on Tuesday, titled “Strategy of Russia’s national policy in the period to 2036”, appeared …

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By Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) -British finance minister Rachel Reeves on Wednesday slashed the amount that people can invest in tax-free cash savings accounts from 2027, in an effort to funnel more funds into Britain’s stock market and drive economic growth. Reeves said in her budget speech to Parliament that the annual, tax-free limit for …

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TBILISI (Reuters) -A leader of one of Georgia’s main opposition groups was sentenced to an additional 1-1/2 years in prison on Wednesday after being found guilty of contempt of court for throwing water on a judge during a hearing earlier this year. Nika Melia of the Ahali-Coalition for Change party has been in jail since …

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