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By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) -The Estonian navy detained and boarded a Russia-bound oil tanker on an EU sanctions list on Friday, accusing it of sailing illegally without a valid country flag. The vessel, the Kiwala, has been under EU sanctions since February as part of Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet”, a term Western countries use …

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By Isabelle Yr Carlsson and Stine Jacobsen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark’s parliament on Friday took an important step towards ratifying a defence cooperation deal with the United States that expands the U.S. military’s rights in the Nordic country despite a diplomatic dispute over Greenland. Recent opinion polls have shown significant opposition among Danes to the …

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By Nandita Bose and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump wants Iran to know that there will be “all hell to pay” if it does not abandon its nuclear program, his press secretary told reporters on Friday ahead of talks on Saturday between U.S. and Iranian delegations. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said …

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(Adds dropped word “of” in paragraph 3) By Olivia Le Poidevin, Kate Abnett and Gloria Dickie GENEVA (Reuters) – David Die Dejean is passionate about studying tuna. Last year, he landed a dream job at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Miami to pursue his research. By January, he was settled in, had received a …

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BERLIN (Reuters) -Friedrich Merz, leader of the conservative German party CDU is set to be elected chancellor on May 6, party sources said on Friday. The conservatives and their centre-left SPD partners had agreed on the date, party sources from both blocs added. (Reporting by Andreas Rinke, editing by Thomas Seythal and Riham Alkousaa)

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) – The president of the Red Cross described the humanitarian situation in Gaza on Friday as “hell on earth” and warned that its field hospital will run out of supplies within two weeks. “We are now finding ourselves in a situation that I have to describe as hell on …

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WARSAW (Reuters) – The European Commission plans to adopt emergency measures next week to stop the spread of bird flu in two regions of Poland, a spokesperson said on Friday. There have been 73 confirmed outbreaks of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in Poland in the last two months, with 53 of those in the …

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