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DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud urged Israel’s new government on Wednesday to engage seriously on resolving the Palestinian conflict. Prince Faisal, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, said Israel’s government was sending “some signals that maybe are not conducive to that” but voiced hope …

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KYIV (Reuters) – Sixteen people including Ukraine’s interior minister and other senior ministry officials were killed on Wednesday when a helicopter crashed outside Kyiv in the town of Brovary, the national police chief said. The governor of the Kyiv region said earlier on Wednesday that a helicopter crashed near a nursery and a residential building …

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MADRID (Reuters) – Jose Maria Casais’s 2,700 euros-a-month income from a pension and incapacity benefits ought to leave him better off than most of his fellow Spaniards. But Casais, a retired engineer living in Barcelona, says he is being forced to raid his savings every month after his energy bills soared because of his reliance …

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BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has removed 40 troops guarding the presidential residence after expressing distrust in the military for failing to act against demonstrators that ransacked government buildings on Jan. 8. His decision was published on Tuesday in the government’s official gazette. Most of the troops guarding the Alvorada …

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By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte held wide-ranging talks on Tuesday that included a discussion on Dutch concerns about new U.S. restrictions on exporting chip-making technology to China. “It did come up in their conversation,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters after the …

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YUZHNOUKRAINSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog said on Monday he hoped to make progress on a safe zone deal around the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia plant in Ukraine, but stressed it was a tough negotiation. Russian forces in March captured the Soviet-era plant, Europe’s largest, soon after their invasion of Ukraine. …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Parliament began a month-long procedure on Monday to waive the immunity from prosecution of two lawmakers who Belgian investigators want to question over a cash-for-influence corruption scandal. Parliament President Roberta Metsola told the assembly in Strasbourg that Belgium had requested immunity be lifted for Italian Andrea Cozzolino and Belgian Marc …

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DUBAI (Reuters) – The United Nations envoy for Yemen said on Monday he was encouraged by intensified efforts for an expanded truce deal but stressed they should seek an inclusive process for a sustainable political settlement. Hans Grundberg, addressing a U.N. Security Council briefing more than three months after an initial truce pact expired, said …

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