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By Tom Little and Louise Rasmussen NUUK, Greenland (Reuters) -Denmark’s prime minister pledged to support Greenland against U.S. President Donald Trump’s expressions of interest in acquiring the Danish semi-autonomous territory as she landed in Nuuk on Wednesday for talks with its incoming government. Mette Frederiksen began her three-day trip to the vast Arctic island less …

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By James Mackenzie and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israel announced a major expansion of military operations in Gaza on Wednesday, saying large areas of the enclave would be seized and added to its security zones, accompanied by large-scale evacuations of the population. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said troops were seizing an area he called the …

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By Nandita Bose and Akash Sriram WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House said on Wednesday that tech billionaire Elon Musk will stay on to complete his mission to slash government spending and downsize the federal workforce, dismissing media reports that he will leave the role soon. Politico and ABC reported that U.S. President Donald Trump had …

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WARSAW (Reuters) – The IT systems of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s Civic Platform party have been hit by a cyberattack, he said on Wednesday, amid growing concern that foreign actors may try to disrupt the country’s elections this year. Poland has been on high alert for foreign interference and sabotage ahead of a presidential …

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By John Irish and Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) -France’s foreign minister warned on Wednesday that if world powers were unable to quickly reach a new agreement with Iran over its contested nuclear programme then a military confrontation seemed “almost inevitable”. Speaking after President Emmanuel Macron convened a rare and undisclosed meeting of key ministers and …

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By Gram Slattery, John Irish and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON/PARIS (Reuters) – U.S. officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the European Union to limit U.S. manufacturers’ participation in weapons tenders, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The messages delivered by Washington in recent …

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(Reuters) – Myanmar’s ostracised leader Min Aung Hlaing will leave his disaster-stricken country on Thursday for a rare trip to a regional summit, state TV said, as aid groups called for restrictions to be eased to reach survivors of a devastating earthquake. The 7.7 magnitude quake, one of the strongest to hit Myanmar in a …

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