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First candidates grilled in parliament test for EU top team

Lawmakers grilled the first four would-be members of the next European Commission on Monday, with a personal tale of bereavement bringing unexpected poignancy to the start of hearings to confirm Ursula von der Leyen’s top team. The hearings offer a rare opportunity for the EU parliament to flex its muscles against the bloc’s powerful executive — …

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Germany’s Baerbock offers Ukraine no guarantees as Kyiv sounds alarm

Germany’s Foreign Minister visited Ukraine on Monday in a symbolic display of support but offered no concrete assurances as the war-battered country sounded the alarm over thousands of North Korean troops building up in Russia and diminishing foreign aid. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that Kyiv believed 11,000 North Korean troops had reached the Kursk border …

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Three charged as Modi slams Canada Hindu temple violence

Canadian authorities charged three people on Monday following violence at a Hindu temple which provoked angry condemnation from India and sent already frosty bilateral ties between the two nations to a fresh low. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed Sunday’s “deliberate attack” outside the Hindu Sabha Mandir in the city of Brampton, near Toronto, in which …

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NATO will ‘stay united’ whoever wins US election: Rutte

NATO will stay united no matter who wins the US election, the alliance’s secretary general Mark Rutte said in Berlin Monday, as Washington’s allies nervously await the outcome of the vote.”Whoever wins those elections, we will work with Kamala Harris, we will work with Donald Trump, and make sure that the alliance stays united,” Rutte …

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Turkey sacks 3 mayors on ‘terror’ charges, sparking fury in southeast

Angry protesters hit the streets of several cities in mainly-Kurdish southeastern Turkey on Monday after the authorities sacked three mayors on “terrorism” charges, sparking a rebuke from Europe’s leading rights organisation.It was the latest move by the Turkish authorities to dismiss officials elected in March’s local elections and replace them with government-appointed trustees.The interior ministry’s …

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Thousands protest alleged election fraud in Georgia

Several thousand Georgians protested in Tbilisi on Monday over alleged election rigging by the governing party and Russian interference in last month’s parliament election, which the opposition denounced as “stolen”.The pro-Western opposition has refused to recognise the ruling Georgian Dream party’s win in the October 26 election or to enter the newly elected parliament, which …

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