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By Terje Solsvik OSLO (Reuters) -Norway’s eurosceptic Centre Party quit the government on Thursday in a dispute over the adoption of European Union energy policies, leaving the centre-left Labour Party to rule alone eight months before an election. The announcement by Finance Minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum deprives Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere of his only …

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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden’s defence minister said on Thursday the Nordic country had agreed to donate its biggest aid package to Ukraine so far, worth 13.5 billion Swedish crowns ($1.23 billion). The aid package is Sweden’s 18th since Russia launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The government is now negotiating with suppliers in Sweden …

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By Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -The Swedish prime minister said the shooting of an anti-Islam campaigner just hours before a trial verdict was due on Thursday over his burning the Koran might be linked to a foreign power, and police arrested five people over the killing. Salwan Momika, 38, an Iraqi refugee, was shot in …

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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – Russian-born ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were aboard the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Potomac River in Washington on Wednesday night, the Kremlin and state media said. Shishkova and Naumov, who were married to each other, won the world championships in …

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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government will retain a ban on asylum seekers being able to claim protections under modern slavery and other human rights laws, even as its ministers have previously criticised those measures. Starmer is under pressure to deal with tens of thousands of people who arrive to the UK …

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By Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) – Some 150 Ukrainian teenagers from northeastern areas near the frontlines of the war with Russia had already packed their bags to travel west for an educational retreat far from the shelling and fighting. Their plans were abruptly cancelled. Tetiana Kovryga, head of a Ukrainian NGO called GoGlobal, said she …

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