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By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPO) and conservative People’s Party (OVP) plan to improve the state’s finances by scrapping climate-change-related measures and collecting more in dividends from state-owned companies, they said on Thursday. The two parties, in coalition talks for just six days, held a news conference giving first details …

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PARIS (Reuters) – The French centre-left Socialist party will not back a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Francois Bayrou’s government, Le Figaro reported on Thursday, citing an intra-party meeting. Dozens of far-left lawmakers have put forward a no-confidence motion against Bayrou, which he is expected to survive amid concessions on pension reform and education that …

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OSLO (Reuters) – Norway and France have signed a letter of intent to expand and strengthen their defence and security policy cooperation, the Norwegian defence ministry said on Thursday. Norway’s Defence Minister Bjoern Arild Gram and French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu met in Oslo to sign the agreement. The two countries plan enhanced cooperation on …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A strategic cooperation agreement that Russia and Iran are poised to sign will not include a mutual defence clause like pacts that Moscow has signed with Pyongyang and Minsk, the state TASS news agency reported on Thursday, citing Iran’s envoy. “The nature of this agreement is different. They (Belarus and North Korea) …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Thursday that an allegation by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk that Russia had planned “acts of terrorism” in the air against Poland and other countries was completely unsubstantiated. Tusk made the assertion on Wednesday after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Warsaw, apparently referring to parcels which exploded …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Thursday declined to comment on a report by Bloomberg about limited talks between Russia and Ukraine in Qatar on protecting nuclear facilities from attacks. (Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia welcomes any settlement that leads to security in Gaza after a ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas was announced, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. The complex ceasefire accord between Israel and militant group Hamas, which controls Gaza, emerged on Wednesday after mediation by Qatar, Egypt and the U.S. …

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(Reuters) – Air defences were engaged in Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv on Thursday to repel a Russian drone attack, officials said, and Reuters witness reported explosions in the city while British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was visiting. City officials said there were no casualties as a result of the attack, but a car was damaged …

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