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UK and Germany won’t send tanks to Ukraine
LONDON — It “wouldn’t be appropriate” for Western allies to fulfill all of Ukraine’s requests for weaponry, the British prime minister said Friday. Boris Johnson…
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Macron calls Polish PM an ‘extreme-right anti-Semite who bans LGBT people’
French President Emmanuel Macron called Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki “an extreme-right anti-Semite who bans LGBT people.” In a wide-ranging interview with French daily Le…
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EU freezes assets of 4 Russian banks
Four Russian banks are banned from doing any business in the EU under the bloc’s latest round of sanctions against Moscow for waging war against…
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French election preview — Orbán’s victory — Transparency International Ukraine
AcaWe preview this Sunday’s presidential vote in France, discuss the latest Western responses to Russia’s war in Ukraine and reflect on Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor…
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German parliament rejects mandatory coronavirus vaccination
BERLIN — The German parliament on Thursday rejected a draft bill that would have made coronavirus vaccination compulsory from the age of 60 in a defeat…
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Russian far-right firebrand Vladimir Zhirinovsky dies aged 75
Russian lawmaker Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a far-right political heavyweight who was in the public eye for more than 30 years, has died aged 75. “After a…
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British man charged with passing information to Russia
A security guard at the British Embassy in Berlin has been charged with nine offences related to the collection and communication of information useful to…
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Italy and Russia: A love affair that hasn’t quite ended
ROME — When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the Italian parliament in March, the number of empty seats was conspicuous. An estimated one in three…
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Turkish state channel TRT launches in French
Turkish state media TRT on Tuesday launched a French-language platform, only a month after Kremlin-backed RT France was banned from broadcasting. The Ankara-based organization, pitched…
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French Election: 3 ways Emmanuel Macron could lose
The countdown is on to the biggest election in Europe this year. On April 10, French voters head to the polls for the first round…
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