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By Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany has gone back on plans to cut its contribution to a global fund to support the eradication of polio after authorities found traces of a variant of the disease in Hamburg wastewater, officials said on Friday. In last-minute negotiations finalising the 2026 budget, legislators decided to allocate an additional …

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By Angelo Amante and Alvise Armellini ROME (Reuters) -Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said on Friday providing more aid to Ukraine would not help end the war with Russia and could “fuel further corruption”, referring to a graft scandal that has rocked the government in Kyiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for the dismissal …

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Palestinians in a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank held weekly communal prayers on Friday after clearing insulting graffiti, broken glass and burn marks from a mosque they say was targeted by Jewish settlers amid a spike in attacks. Villagers in Deir Istiya who cleaned up the mosque told Reuters that settlers had …

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BERLIN (Reuters) -Cyprus said on Friday Turkey must drop its insistence on a two-state solution for the divided island if it hopes to make progress on its long-stalled bid to join the European Union. Speaking in Berlin after talks with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides said Turkey’s position on Cyprus was an …

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By Max Hunder and Anastasiia Malenko KYIV (Reuters) -Russia plans to manufacture up to 120,000 of its cheap and devastating glide bombs this year, a senior Ukrainian intelligence official said, including 500 of a new, longer-range version which can reach more towns and cities. Russia has ramped up arms production massively since the full-scale invasion …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday dismissed a German general’s comments about the possibility of conflict between Moscow and Germany as baseless fear-mongering. Lieutenant General Alexander Sollfrank told Reuters in an interview earlier this month that a Russian decision to attack a NATO member state would depend on the Western allies’ posture, but …

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