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By Manuel Ausloos and Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) – When Mariia Pankova last exchanged messages with her close friend Pavlo in December, she had no idea that he was among the Ukrainian troops fighting in Russia’s Kursk region. She found out when a fellow soldier told her several days later that her friend, Pavlo Humeniuk, …

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BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Online influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan left the United States for Romania on a private flight on Friday to fulfil legal obligations related to a criminal investigation against them, they said. The brothers are under investigation in Romania on accusations of forming an organised criminal group, human trafficking, trafficking of …

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(Reuters) -The governments of Germany, France and Britain called for an immediate return to a ceasefire in Gaza in a joint statement on Friday that also called on Israel to restore humanitarian access. “We call on Israel to restore humanitarian access, including water and electricity, and ensure access to medical care and temporary medical evacuations …

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ROME (Reuters) – Pope Francis is slowly regaining his strength in hospital but must “relearn to speak” after prolonged use of high-flow oxygen therapy, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez said on Friday. The cardinal, who is the head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office, dismissed speculation that the pontiff would retire and said he was returning to …

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By Kate Abnett and Charlotte Van Campenhout BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Commission has delayed its plan to propose a new EU climate target in the first quarter of this year, pushing back the launch of an expected commitment to cut emissions by 2040, it said on Friday. Brussels had said last month it would amend …

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By Tuvan Gumrukcu, Mert Ozkan, Mehmet Emin Caliskan and Ece Toksabay ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Protests against the detention of Istanbul’s mayor grew on Friday and turned increasingly tense, Turkey’s biggest show of civil disobedience in more than a decade after President Tayyip Erdogan warned it would not be tolerated. Tens of thousands of Turks have …

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By Holger Hansen BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s budget committee cleared the way on Friday for another 3 billion euros ($3.25 billion) in military aid for Ukraine, after chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz pushed through reforms to ramp up investment in defence. Both houses of parliament passed plans this week by Merz’s conservatives and the Social Democrats, who are …

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By Alexander Villegas (Reuters) – Glaciers around the globe are disappearing faster than ever, with the last three-year period seeing the largest glacial mass loss on record, according to a UNESCO report released on Friday.  The 9,000 gigatons of ice lost from glaciers since 1975 are roughly equivalent to “an ice block the size of Germany …

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