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Putin envoy Dmitriev: Peace plan seeks to end Ukraine losses of land, lives

(Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin’s investment envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, said on Friday the U.S. plan for a settlement of the war in Ukraine was aimed at preventing more Ukrainian deaths and loss of territory. Several sources told Reuters and other media outlets that the plan to end the four-year-old war was the result of back-channel …

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Ornella Vanoni, Italian singer made world-famous by ‘Ocean’s Twelve’, dies at 91

By Gianluca Semeraro MILAN (Reuters) -Four steps separated Ornella Vanoni from the life she craved: the four steps leading up to the stage of Milan’s Piccolo Teatro. “I twisted my nerves, I pulled my hair,” she recalled in her memoir, “Vincente o perdente” (“Winner or Loser”), of the fear that gripped her in the mid-1950s. …

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Trump says Ukraine’s Zelenskiy will have to approve US-backed peace plan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will have to like a U.S.-backed peace plan to halt Russia’s invasion and ultimately approve it, U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday. Trump, speaking in the Oval Office after a meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, repeated that he had expected to resolve the war …

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Democrat demands release of ‘shocking’ Trump-Saudi call from 2019 after Khashoggi’s death

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Democratic lawmaker who served on Donald Trump’s National Security Council in his first term urged the White House on Friday to release a transcript of Trump’s 2019 call with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s killing. “The Khashoggi family and the American people deserve to …

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Putin says U.S. peace plan can be the basis for peace in Ukraine

By Marina Bobrova and Anton Kolodyazhnyy MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that U.S. proposals for peace in Ukraine could be the basis of a resolution of the conflict but that if Kyiv turned down the plan then Russian forces would advance further. U.S. President Donald Trump said he was giving Ukraine …

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French foreign minister to hold call with European counterparts to discuss Ukraine, source says

PARIS (Reuters) -France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot will host a call with European counterparts on Friday evening to discuss Ukraine, a French diplomatic source said. The source said the call in the so-called Washington format would be held with foreign ministers from Germany, Poland, Britain, Finland, and Italy, as well as the European Union foreign …

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G20 envoys agree draft declaration despite US boycott, sources say

By Tim Cocks, Alexander Winning and Julia Payne JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -G20 envoys have agreed on a draft leaders’ declaration ahead of this weekend’s summit in Johannesburg without U.S. input, four sources familiar with the matter said on Friday. The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has indicated that it will boycott the November 22-23 summit …

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Don’t let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth

By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Artificial intelligence may be a useful tool for learning, but don’t use it for your homework, Pope Leo told about 15,000 U.S. youth during a question-and-answer session on Friday. In a live video transmission from the Vatican to a national Catholic youth conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, Leo told the …

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EU formally warns Italy over ‘golden power’ takeover rules

By Sudip Kar-Gupta and Giselda Vagnoni BRUSSELS/ROME (Reuters) -The European Commission on Friday issued a formal warning to the Italian government that its so-called ‘golden powers’ over some takeover deals could breach EU law, as Brussels tries to stop member states from obstructing banking sector consolidation. Rome’s powers are aimed at safeguarding the national interest …

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