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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedish police said on Thursday that their intervention in a mass shooting earlier this month had prevented even more deaths in the country’s worst-ever killing spree. The shooter, identified by Reuters and other media as Rickard Andersson, shot dead 10 people during a 15-minute killing spree on February 4 before turning the …

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(Reuters) – The head of Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence agency, Kyrylo Budanov, believes a ceasefire in the war with Russia could happen this year. “I think it is going to happen. There are most of the components for it to happen,” Budanov said in a YouTube interview with journalist Eynulla Fatullayev. He gave no details. …

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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian officials began talks on Thursday with an International Monetary Fund team working on the country’s latest loan programme review, which could unlock about $917 million in new funds. As the war with Russia enters a fourth year, Ukraine is heavily dependent on foreign financial aid to cover its social and humanitarian …

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MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez plans to travel to Ukraine on Monday to support President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and the Ukrainian democracy, he said on Thursday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump called Zelenskiy a “dictator”. Trump’s remarks and his change of U.S. policy on the three-year war in Ukraine heightened concerns …

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VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria’s two biggest centrist parties are moving quickly towards a coalition deal without the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) after it failed to form a government, party officials said on Thursday. It would be third time lucky if the conservative People’s Party (OVP) and Social Democrats (SPO) managed to strike a deal with …

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BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stressed the importance of keeping the path open for Ukraine to join the European Union and rejected suggestions that the country was to blame for its invasion by Russia, in a radio interview aired on Thursday. Asked if he shares U.S. President Donald Trump’s view, in line with …

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KYIV (Reuters) – Russia launched 161 drones and a dozen missiles overnight, targeting gas infrastructure in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region and hitting power supply in the southern Odesa region for a second night in a row, Ukrainian officials said on Thursday. The attack was part of an intensified assault on Ukraine’s energy system over the …

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