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Blinken sets limits on US talks with Russia
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that pulling U.S. troops out of Eastern Europe and committing not to expand NATO to include Ukraine are…
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Serbian PM pledges support for Djokovic in Australia spat
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić has pledged support for Novak Djokovic, saying that her government will provide “all necessary guarantees” to ensure that the tennis…
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UK COVID-19 deaths top 150,000
More than 150,000 people have died in the U.K. within 28 days of testing positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic started, according to the latest…
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Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer tests positive for COVID-19
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has tested positive for COVID-19 and is isolating at home, he announced on Twitter. Nehammer has received three coronavirus vaccine doses…
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Poland’s Watergate: Ruling party leader admits country has Pegasus hacking software
Jarosław Kaczyński, chairman of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party and the country’s de facto leader, confirmed that the government has the Pegasus hacking…
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France loosens UK travel restrictions
France on Thursday expanded the list of compelling reasons to travel to and from the U.K., effective as of January 6, the French consulate in…
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Emmanuel Macron’s pissed off. He’s not the only one.
Welcome to Declassified, a weekly column looking at the lighter side of politics. As new year’s resolutions go, wanting to “piss off” the unvaccinated is…
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France flexes muscles with fines against Facebook, Google over cookie banners
France is going after the pesky online trackers known as cookies — and showing the world it’s not afraid to flex its muscles against Big…
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Blinken urges ‘peaceful’ resolution amid Kazakhstan chaos
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke Thursday with his Kazakhstani counterpart amid a rapidly deteriorating security situation in the Central Asian nation that resulted…
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European court dismisses activist’s ‘gay cake’ appeal
The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday struck down a legal challenge filed by a gay rights activist in the Northern Irish so-called gay…
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