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By Andrew Osborn and Anastasiia Malenko LONDON/KYIV (Reuters) -Thousands of Ukrainian troops who stormed into Russia’s Kursk region last summer in a shock incursion are nearly surrounded by Russian forces there, in a major blow to Kyiv which hoped to use its presence there as leverage over Moscow in any peace talks. Ukraine’s situation in …

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By Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s centre-right government on Friday survived a no-confidence vote over a deadly 2023 train crash, as protests flared demanding political accountability over Greece’s worst rail disaster. Centre-left, leftist and independent lawmakers on Wednesday submitted a motion saying the government had lost its popular mandate, a week after hundreds of …

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By Andrea Shalal, Anastasiia Malenko, Olena Harmash and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON/KYIV (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump raised the prospect of imposing large-scale U.S. sanctions on Russia on Friday, days after pausing military aid and intelligence support to Ukraine, and he called on both countries to get on with negotiating a peace deal. Trump’s threat of …

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By Jarrett Renshaw and Jonathan Saul (Reuters) – The U.S. government is studying ways it could ease sanctions on Russia’s energy sector as part of a broad plan to enable Washington to deliver swift relief if Moscow agrees to end the Ukraine war, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Reuters had reported earlier …

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YALOVA, Turkey (Reuters) – Hakan Kilic and his family celebrate his mother-in-law’s birthday every year in Turkey’s Yalova province next to a portrait of her made from her cremated ashes. Serap Lokmaci, who occasionally works with sand for her drawings, approached the family with the idea of painting a portrait of Katalin Kollar, the mother-in-law, …

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WASHINGTON/JOHANNESBURG Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that his country is stopping all federal funding to South Africa, but South Africa responded by saying it would not engage in “megaphone diplomacy”. Trump had already signed an executive order to cut all U.S. financial assistance to South Africa last month, citing disapproval of its …

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By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said he wants to negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran and sent a letter to its leadership this week suggesting talks with the Islamic Republic, which the West fears is rapidly nearing the capability to make atomic weapons. “I said I hope you’re going to negotiate, …

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