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By Supantha Mukherjee, Philip Blenkinsop STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Elon Musk’s hosting of Alice Weidel, leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, for a discussion on his X platform on Thursday was watched by the European Commission to check for any spreading of misinformation before next month’s German election. The European Union’s Digital Services Act …

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BERLIN (Reuters) -The German government is in ongoing discussions about whether to delete its presence on the X platform due to concerns over its algorithms, a spokesperson said on Friday. “This is a permanent consideration that we have to make again and again,” the spokesperson said, a day after a live talk on the platform …

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BERLIN (Reuters) – German authorities confirmed the country’s first outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in nearly 40 years on Friday in a herd of water buffalo on the outskirts of Berlin. Foot-and-mouth disease causes fever and mouth blisters in cloven-hoofed ruminants such as cattle, swine, sheep and goats. Measures to contain the highly infectious disease, which …

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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine expects high-level contact with the new U.S. administration immediately after Donald Trump takes office, including an eventual meeting between the U.S. president-elect and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Kyiv said on Friday. Kyiv sees cultivating close ties with Trump as a paramount goal and has been making overtures to the Republican who won …

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By Georgi Slavov SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgarian former Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said after testifying to prosecutors on Friday that he had committed no crime in the 2022 arrest of political rival Boyko Borissov in which Petkov is accused of overstepping his authority. Borissov, who is also a former prime minister and still leads the …

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PARIS (Reuters) – Inhabitants of the cyclone-ravaged French overseas territory of Mayotte were advised on Friday to ensure they could shelter in sturdy buildings and had food and water over the weekend as another tropical storm neared the Indian Ocean archipelago. The Mayotte prefecture said in a statement it had triggered a cyclone pre-alert as …

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