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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Washington has told the European Union it should not expect any trade negotiations before the United States has imposed more tariffs on the bloc next week, EU diplomats said on Thursday. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has already imposed 25% tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, plans an additional 25% duty on …

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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s state-owned railway Ukrzaliznytsia, the country’s largest carrier, has partially restored online services after a large-scale cyber attack hit passenger and freight transport systems, the company said on Thursday. An outage was first reported on Sunday when the rail company notified passengers about a failure in its IT system and told them …

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By Yannis Souliotis and Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) – When Greek police raided the apartment of a 49-year-old planning officer suspected of bribery on the tourist island of Rhodes last week, they found thousands of euros stashed in her pots and pans and even the cooker hood. Dozens have been charged in the affair, the …

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By Essi Lehto and Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland’s right-wing government has asked parliament to extend until the end of 2026 a law that allows it to reject asylum applications from migrants crossing its closed eastern border with Russia and to send them back, it said on Thursday. NATO member Finland has accused Russia …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that the proposed Black Sea Initiative was a new deal – not an extension of an earlier agreement. “This is a new agreement, the contours of which are currently being discussed,” Zakharova said when asked by Reuters if the proposed deal was an …

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SARAJEVO (Reuters) – A court in Bosnia has issued an international arrest warrant for Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik who is accused of attacking the constitutional order and has gone abroad in defiance, the court said on Thursday. Dodik, the president of Bosnia’s Serb Republic region, has triggered the gravest crisis since a 1990s war …

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