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BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s association of family-owned companies has lifted its ban on contacts with AfD lawmakers, signalling the far-right party’s growing acceptability in parts of the business community as it climbs in the polls. Just two years ago, prominent business leaders warned that the rise of right-wing extremism threatened Germany’s reputation as a destination for …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -A heating and power plant in Russia’s Moscow region has resumed operations after shutting down due to a fire caused by a Ukrainian drone strike, regional governor Andrei Vorobyov said on Monday. The attack on Sunday on the facility in Shatura, a town of about 33,000, sparked a major blaze and cut heating …

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WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland summoned Israel’s ambassador on Monday over a tweet from a Holocaust memorial institute that Warsaw said did not make clear that occupying Nazi German forces, and not Polish authorities, made Jews wear star badges during World War Two. Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski was protesting against a social media post in which Yad …

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BEIRUT (Reuters) -Hundreds gathered in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Monday to mourn Hezbollah’s top military commander Haytham Ali Tabtabai and four other fighters from the Lebanese group killed in an Israeli strike on the city’s outskirts the previous day.  The targeted assassination by Israel – a type of operation that had become rarer since a …

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PRAGUE (Reuters) -The likely next Czech government rejected the outgoing administration’s 2026 budget draft on Monday, raising the chances of a delay to approving the plan by the end of the year and a higher-than-expected deficit. Czech billionaire Andrej Babis’ populist ANO party, winner of an October election and leading talks on forming the next …

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LUANDA (Reuters) -European Council President Antonio Costa pledged on Monday that the European Union will keep on supporting Ukraine, as he hailed “new momentum” in peace negotiations to end the war triggered by Russia’s invasion. “The European Union is committed to continue providing President Zelenskiy with all the support he needs – diplomatic support, military …

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