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By Samia Nakhoul, Maya Gebeily and Timour Azhari (Reuters) – Syria’s interim President Ahmed Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted President Bashar al-Assad’s minority sect were a threat to his mission to unite the country, and promised to punish those responsible, including his own allies if necessary. In his first interview to a …

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By Alan Charlish WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland’s prime minister on Monday called on “friends” to respect their allies and not be arrogant, in a post on X which mentioned no-one by name but came a day after an extraordinary social media spat between top U.S. and Polish officials over Starlink. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio …

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By Luiza Ilie BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Romanian far-right presidential contender Calin Georgescu said on Monday he would challenge a decision to bar him from taking part in an election rerun in May, but analysts said his chances of standing were slim amid fears of Russian meddling. The dispute over Georgescu’s candidacy is firing up tensions both …

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(Reuters) -The Netherlands, one of the world’s largest egg exporters, has launched a pilot program on a laying-hen farm to vaccinate poultry against bird flu with the aim of achieving large-scale vaccination, the government said on Monday. The highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has killed or led to the culling of hundreds …

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By Mark John (Reuters) – Growing challenges to the euro’s status as a reserve currency in a fast-changing global economy are, for now, staying the hand of European capitals as they weigh up the repercussions of a potential seizure of frozen Russian assets. Nevertheless, Europe faces an increasingly urgent need to help bankroll Ukraine’s survival …

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