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PARIS (Reuters) -France will provide some 2 billion euros ($2.15 billion) of extra military aid to Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday, accusing Russia of reinterpreting and rewriting recent limited ceasefire deals. “I can announce today 2 billion euros of extra military support to Ukraine,” Macron said alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Paris. …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ali Sawafta CAIRO/RAMALLAH (Reuters) -Hundreds of Palestinians have protested in northern Gaza to demand an end to war, chanting “Hamas out,” social media posts showed, in a rare public show of opposition to the militant group that sparked the latest war with its October 7, 2023 raid on Israel. Northern Gaza …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Wednesday that a number of conditions must be met before a Black Sea maritime security deal negotiated with the United States can be activated, pointing to an earlier agreement which it said saw Moscow’s needs ignored. The United States reached separate deals on Tuesday with Ukraine and Russia …

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DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish opposition parties called on the speaker of the lower house of parliament to resign on Wednesday, just three months into her term, over a dispute about speaking rights that has impacted the workings of parliament. Speaker Verona Murphy, an independent lawmaker whose elevation to the post after a November general election …

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MADRID (Reuters) -Environmental groups and residents are suing the Spanish state and the region of Galicia in a landmark case over alleged decades-long mismanagement of pollution caused by intensive pig farming, activist charity ClientEarth said on Wednesday. The case, which argues that the authorities’ inaction in Europe’s largest pork producing country breached national and European …

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By Anastasiia Malenko and Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine and Russia accused one another on Wednesday of flouting a truce on energy strikes brokered by the United States, and the European Union said it would not meet conditions set by Russia for a planned ceasefire in the Black Sea. The United States announced separate agreements …

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ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (Reuters) -A Russian military court on Wednesday handed down long prison sentences to 12 members of Ukraine’s Azov regiment, which led the defence of the city of Mariupol in the early months of the war and is designated as a terrorist organisation by Russia. The defendants, charged with terrorist activity and with violently …

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