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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Thursday that any peace plan for Ukraine would have to eliminate the root causes of the conflict and that though there were contacts with the United States there were currently no negotiations with Washington on such a plan. The U.S. has signalled to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that Ukraine must …

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WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland has asked Belarus to extradite two Ukrainian citizens accused of carrying out railway sabotage on behalf of Russia, the Polish foreign ministry said on Thursday. Warsaw says the two men fled to Belarus after two acts of sabotage on Sunday on a railway line to Ukraine, one involving an explosion. The request …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin on Thursday criticised comments on Russian nuclear weapons made by the chairman of Airbus and asked why someone like him was making them in the first place, saying that “more and more Europeans were “losing their restraint”. Airbus chairman Rene Obermann on Wednesday called on European countries to acquire tactical nuclear …

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PARIS (Reuters) -Austria reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a goose farm, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Thursday, as Europe faces a surge in the deadly disease. The virus was detected in a flock of 645 geese in the town of Steyr, causing the death of 50 …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin does not use artificial intelligence tools himself, but officials who work for him do, the Kremlin said on Thursday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov added that the Kremlin used AI tools to help sort through citizens’ questions during Putin’s annual question-and-answer event. Putin on Wednesday called for a national task …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on Thursday said the European Union should stop sending money to the Ukrainian government after corruption reports. “There’s a war mafia, a corrupt system working in Ukraine, and then the European Commission president … instead of stopping the payments and demanding for immediate financial clearance, she wants to …

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