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By Edward McAllister and Fatos Bytyci ELBASAN, Albania (Reuters) – Ilir Rranci moved to a hamlet outside the Albanian city of Elbasan for the view of snow-capped peaks and a garden big enough for fruit trees, chickens and turkeys. Today, however, the surrounding scenery is obstructed by a multicoloured mountain of rubbish from a next-door …

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(Reuters) – Slovakia’s prime minister embarked on a circuitous route to Moscow on Thursday to attend Russia’s World War 2 victory parade after Lithuania shut its airspace to flights carrying him to the event and other Baltic nations imposed similar restrictions. Robert Fico, who met Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin in December, is …

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By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Parliament approved plans on Thursday to make it easier to hunt wolves in the EU, citing their growing numbers and the threat they pose to livestock as reasons for downgrading the animals’ protection status. The changes – which European Union member states already approved last month – …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European automakers will have longer to comply with EU C02 emissions targets for cars and vans and could reduce potential fines after the European Parliament gave its backing on Thursday to a softening of the rules. European manufacturers had warned that enforcing the targets this year could have resulted in fines of up …

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By Dmitry Antonov MOSCOW (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping told Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Thursday their two countries should be “friends of steel”, as they pledged to raise cooperation to a new level and “decisively” counter the influence of the United States. At talks in the Kremlin, the two leaders cast themselves as defenders …

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By Jonathan Saul and Mohammed Ghobari ADEN (Reuters) – Some 200 seafarers aboard more than 15 ships stuck for weeks off Yemen’s port of Ras Isa are preparing to offload cargoes and leave thanks to a ceasefire deal between Houthi militia and the U.S., maritime and labour union sources said on Thursday. Still, threat levels …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Mahmoud Issa CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -Dozens of community kitchens in Gaza shut their doors on Thursday due to a lack of supplies, closing off a lifeline used by hundreds of thousands of people in a further blow to efforts to combat growing hunger in the enclave. The move followed hours after the …

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