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By Andreas Rinke and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) -Hours after Friedrich Merz’s conservatives won Germany’s national election, he sent the outgoing Social Democrat government a memorandum dictating how to cooperate during the transition period before he took power. Caretaker Chancellor Olaf Scholz must take no significant foreign or domestic policy decision without first consulting Merz’s …

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By Jeff Mason, Andrea Shalal and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said his proposed 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods will take effect on Tuesday, along with an extra 10% duty on Chinese imports because deadly drugs are still pouring into the U.S. from those countries. The fresh …

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By Jonathan Spicer and Mark Trevelyan ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Russian and U.S. teams held six hours of talks in Turkey on Thursday to try to restore normal functioning of their embassies, and Vladimir Putin said initial contacts with Donald Trump’s new administration had inspired hope. The talks, focused narrowly on conditions for each other’s diplomats, provided …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump accepted an invitation from King Charles on Thursday to visit Britain, making the U.S. president the first elected political leader in modern times to be hosted for two state visits by a British monarch. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer handed Trump a letter from Charles in front of reporters at …

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By Jeff Mason, Elizabeth Piper and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a minerals deal with Ukraine is the security guarantee Kyiv needs against Russia, brushing aside a plea from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for a commitment of U.S. military support. Starmer, who was meeting Trump at the White …

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(Reuters) – Internet figure and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan arrived in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from Romania on Thursday, shortly after prosecutors lifted a travel ban related to criminal charges against them. The Tate brothers are under criminal investigation in Romania on accusations of forming an organised criminal group, human trafficking, trafficking …

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(Refiles to fix typo ‘imagery’ in first bullet point) By Reade Levinson and Feras Dalatey DAMASCUS (Reuters) – More than 1,000 Syrians died in detention at a military airport on the outskirts of Damascus, killed by execution, torture or maltreatment at a site that was widely feared, according to a report to be published Thursday …

More than 1,000 Syrians died in airport prison under Assad, report says Read More »