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By Andrew Gray, Lili Bayer, Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali BRUSSELS (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth rejected criticism on Thursday of Washington’s negotiating strategy with Russia on the war in Ukraine and warned Europe against treating America like a “sucker” by making it responsible for its defense. “Make no mistake, President Trump will not …

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By Charlotte Van Campenhout and Stephanie Lecocq BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of Belgians took to the streets on Thursday in protest over the new government’s planned pension reforms, during the first day of a multi-day strike that halted all air traffic in the country. Local police reported on social media platform X that 60,000 …

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(Reuters) – France’s largest video game maker Ubisoft reported on Thursday a 52% year-on-year fall in third quarter net bookings as the company has been plagued by the underperformance of some of its key titles. The maker of the blockbuster franchise “Assassin’s Creed” reported net bookings of 301.8 million euros ($314.69 million) for the three …

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KYIV (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday Ukraine would not accept any bilateral agreement on its fate reached by Moscow and Washington without Kyiv’s involvement, and called for Europe to have a seat at the table in negotiations to end the war. The Ukrainian leader made the comments at a nuclear plant on …

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By Dmitry Antonov and Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Thursday that Ukraine would “of course” be involved in talks to end the war, but there would be a separate U.S.-Russian strand to the negotiations. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also said it could take up to several months to arrange a meeting between presidents …

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By Max Hunder and Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine imposed sanctions on former president and opposition politician Petro Poroshenko, including an asset freeze and a ban on withdrawing capital from the country, for what the domestic spy agency said on Thursday were “national security” reasons. Poroshenko, one of Ukraine’s richest men who heads the largest …

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By Yurii Kovalenko and Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainians on Thursday worried that U.S. President Donald Trump was preparing to sell out their country following his phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, though some expressed cautious hope over his effort to swiftly end the war. Trump’s call to the Russian president – the first …

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By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria’s president sought on Thursday to find a path towards a centrist ruling coalition without the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) after the FPO’s bid to lead a government for the first time failed. The collapse on Wednesday of the FPO’s talks with the conservative People’s Party (OVP), its only …

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(Reuters) – NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Thursday that any peace deal in Ukraine must be enduring and that any discussions must include Kyiv. “It is crucial that whatever comes out of those talks, it is durable, it is enduring,” Rutte told reporters in Brussels ahead of talks with the alliance’s defence ministers. …

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