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(Reuters) – Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was set to reclaim a slim parliamentary majority for the government on Thursday after submitting to the president a proposed cabinet change and declaration of support from four unaligned lawmakers. Fico’s leftist-nationalist ruling coalition has bickered in recent months amid party disputes and defections of lawmakers that cost …

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A ramming attack at a bus stop in northern Israel on Thursday injured seven people, one of them critically, Israeli medics said. Israeli police said the suspected attacker had nationalistic motivations and was a Palestinian from Jenin in the north of the Israeli-occupied West Bank who was married to an Israeli citizen. …

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By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a right-winger kept at arms length by Washington under former President Joe Biden, will meet U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in Washington next Wednesday, Smotrich’s spokesman said on Thursday. Smotrich went to Washington in March 2023 to meet with leaders of Israel’s U.S.-based government …

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By Jonathan Spicer ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s 40-year battle against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) could be nearing an end after its jailed leader, Abdullah Ocalan, called on the militant group on Thursday to lay down its arms and disband. Ocalan’s statement, announced by the opposition pro-Kurdish DEM party that held three recent meetings with …

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By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Bosnia’s Serb Republic is expected to bar the state police and judiciary from operating on its territory on Thursday, a day after a state court ordered the Russian-backed separatist Serb president to step down for defying an international peace envoy. Russia said the six-year political ban and one-year jail …

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PARIS (Reuters) – Pension negotiations between French unions and employers must chart a path for steering the retirement system’s finances back to balance by the end of the decade, Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said on Thursday. Unions and employers federations began talks on Thursday to modify a deeply unpopular 2023 pension overhaul that gradually raises …

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