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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Tuesday that any normalisation of relations with the United States would require the lifting of sanctions against Moscow. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was responding to a question about a Reuters report that said the United States is drawing up a plan to potentially give Russia sanctions relief as President …

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PARIS (Reuters) – France must spend more on defence and faster, French Finance Minister Eric Lombard said on Tuesday, amid calls for European countries to step up more on defence as Washington threatens to pull back. “We must go faster and harder,” Lombard told Franceinfo. Lombard’s remarks come as France has been under pressure to …

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BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto is going to meet U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington later on Tuesday, a Hungarian government spokesperson said on X. Spokesperson Zoltan Kovacs also said that the talks, which begin at 1600 GMT, are going to focus on on key bilateral and global issues. (Reporting …

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KYIV (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s pause of all military aid to Ukraine looks like he is trying to push Kyiv towards capitulation on Russia’s terms, a senior Ukrainian lawmaker said on Tuesday. “To stop aid now means to help (Russian President Vladimir) Putin,” Oleksandr Merezhko, the chair of Ukraine’s Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, …

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(Reuters) – The Kremlin said in remarks published on Tuesday that the next round of Russia-U.S. talks on ending the war in Ukraine is unlikely to happen before the embassies of both countries resume normal operations. “Unlikely,” Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of President Vladimir Putin, told RIA state news agency in response to a …

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