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By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) – Lithuania has closed its airspace to flights carrying the Slovak and Serbian leaders to Moscow for its World War Two victory parade, President Gitanas Nauseda said on Wednesday. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic are among leaders expected to attend World War Two Victory Day …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 42 people convicted of “extremist offences”, state news agency BELTA reported on Wednesday. Opponents of Lukashenko, who has been in office since 1994, are regularly accused of extremism-related offences which human rights activists say are trumped up to silence them. BELTA did not give the names …

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MILAN (Reuters) -An Italian judge has dismissed a case against Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Paul Haggis for alleged rape, his lawyers said on Wednesday. Haggis, 72, was detained in June 2022 and spent 14 days under house arrest after a British woman accused him of raping her over a two-day period in the southern Italian …

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By Alexander Cornwell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The United States and Israel have discussed the possibility of Washington leading a temporary post-war administration of Gaza, according to five people familiar with the matter. The “high-level” consultations have centered around a transitional government headed by a U.S. official that would oversee Gaza until it had been demilitarized …

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