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PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron is to set up a joint Franco-Haitian commission to examine France’s past with its former Caribbean colony, but he made no mention of the possibility of reparations that Haitian activists have long called for.  Macron said on Thursday that once the commission’s work was completed, it would propose recommendations …

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By Angelo Amante, Trevor Hunnicutt and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni each expressed confidence on Thursday that the United States and Europe will be able to negotiate a trade deal before his 90-day pause on some tariffs ends. The 27-nation European Union faces 25% import tariffs …

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OSLO (Reuters) -Norway’s Equinor will halt offshore construction of its Empire Wind I project in New York State, following a stop-work order from U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, the company said on Thursday. The sudden order marks a major blow for the company and the nascent U.S. offshore wind industry, which previously enjoyed substantial support …

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By Anastasiia Malenko, Yuliia Dysa and Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday China was supplying weapons and gunpowder to Russia, the first time he has openly accused Beijing of direct military assistance for Moscow. The Ukrainian leader said at a press conference that his government also had intelligence that …

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(Reuters) -A Russian mass drone attack killed three people, including a child, and injured many more on Wednesday evening in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, the regional governor said. Serhiy Lysak, governor of Dnipropetrovsk region, wrote on the Telegram messaging app that 30 people had been injured, including five children. Sixteen people were being …

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By Anna Hirtenstein and Alexander Marrow LONDON (Reuters) – Plans are afoot for an American-owned company seized by the Kremlin and placed under state control to be used to supply food to the Russian army, a document seen by Reuters showed, potentially threatening Moscow’s warming relations with the U.S. As the U.S. and the Kremlin …

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