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MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin wants U.S. President Donald Trump to formally recognise all four Ukrainian regions that Moscow has claimed as its own in addition to Crimea, Russia’s Kommersant daily reported. Citing unnamed sources who attended a private business event with Putin on Tuesday, Kommersant said that Putin wanted the U.S. to formally …

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BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbia’s parliament formally accepted the resignation of the Prime Minister Milos Vucevic on Wednesday, triggering a 30-day deadline for the formation of a new government or the calling of a snap election. Vucevic, the head of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and an ally of the populist President Aleksandar Vucic, resigned …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump will hold a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at 10:00 a.m. ET (1400 GMT) on Wednesday, a White House official confirmed. Trump’s call with the Ukrainian leader, with whom he has a complicated relationship, comes after a roughly 2-hour call the U.S. president held with Russian President …

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By Tiffany Vermeylen BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Around 400 teachers and students from EU schools in Brussels went on strike for half a day on Wednesday to protest against employment conditions for locally hired teachers, including the absence of union representation and a teachers’ pension plan. European Union (EU) schools serve about 28,000 children of EU …

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MADRID (Reuters) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos cautioned on Wednesday that while defence spending increases across the European Union were the “number one priority”, there was still a need to guarantee budget stability in line with the bloc’s fiscal rules. EU countries are looking to boost defence spending by at least …

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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany updated its travel advisory for the United States to emphasise that a visa or entry waiver does not guarantee entry for its citizens after several Germans were detained at the border recently, a foreign ministry spokesperson said. The ministry updated its travel advice website for the U.S. on Tuesday to clarify …

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