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EU slaps sanctions on alleged culprits of attacks on Syria’s Alawites

The EU's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas announced plans to remove sanctions last week, but said the move was "conditional" and that sanctions could be resumed if the new government doesn’t keep the peace.

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Three charged with spying for Russia, German prosecutor’s office says

The charges against the men are the latest in a series of cases across Europe where Ukrainians and other nationals have been accused of working on behalf of Russia’s intelligence services.

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Macron meets with Indonesian counterpart to discuss defence and trade

French President Emmanuel Macron is in Indonesia to discuss boosting defence and trade with his counterpart Prabowo Subianto. It marks the second stop on his week-long Southeast Asia tour.

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Seven dead after migrant boat capsizes near Canary Islands

The Spanish archipelago located off Africa's western coast has for years been a main route, and a deadly one, for migrants trying to reach Europe.

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USA

NPR sues Trump over executive order to cut public media funding

The lawsuit alleges that Trump is acting to contravene the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private non-profit corporation set up to distribute federal funding to NPR and PBS, which is intended to insulate the system from political interference.

USA

Trump moves to cut $100 million in federal contracts for Harvard

President Donald Trump has railed against Harvard, the US's oldest and wealthiest university, calling it a hotbed of liberalism and antisemitism.

France

France's National Assembly backs assisted dying bill on first reading

The bill, which received 305 votes in favour and 199 against, will be sent to the Senate for further debate but a definitive vote on the measure could take months.

Germany

Suspect in stabbing attack at German festival admits killings at trial

The Solingen incident was one of several deadly attacks in the months leading up to Germany's national election in February that involved immigrant suspects, pushing migration to the forefront of the political agenda in that vote.

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Romania's Călin Georgescu announces withdrawal from politics

Georgescu said he made his decision to take a step back following the conclusion of the presidential race, which for him indicated "the sovereignist movement has come to a close."

China

Search continues for missing people after China plant explosion

Search and rescue operations continue for six people still missing after Tuesday's deadly blast in the city of Weifang in Shandong province.

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Greece completes work on undersea cable linking mainland with Crete

Athens hopes to extend the link, dubbed the Great Sea Interconnector, to Cyprus and Israel by the end of the decade.

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Dan sworn in as Romania's new president easing political crisis

The May election rerun was held months after the Constitutional Court voided the previous election in which the far-right outsider Călin Georgescu led the first round, following allegations of electoral violations and Russian interference.

India

India’s Kerala state on high alert as vessel with chemical cargo sinks

Authorities fear that some of the harmful substances the ship was carrying may have leaked into the sea, posing a risk to local residents and marine life.

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Navigator charged with negligence after ship ends up in Norway garden

Homeowner Johan Helberg told the Norwegian broadcaster NRK that he’d slept through the whole incident and only woke up when a neighbour started ringing his doorbell.

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Neo-Nazi cult leader extradited to US for plot to kill Jewish children

Michail Chkhikvishvili, a 21-year-old originally from Georgia, was arraigned on Friday before a federal judge in Brooklyn on multiple felonies, including soliciting hate crimes and acts of mass violence.

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Iran-US nuclear talks didn’t make 'conclusive progress,' Oman says

The talks seek to limit Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of some of the crushing economic sanctions the US has imposed.

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Woman arrested after 18 people injured in knife attack in Hamburg

A 39-year-old German woman was arrested after a knife attack at the main railway station in the German city of Hamburg, which injured eighteen people, police have said.

Libya

At least seven Sudanese migrants found dead deep in Libyan desert

Libya, which shares borders with six nations and has a long coastline along the Mediterranean, is a main transit point for migrants fleeing war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East, and often trying to reach Europe.

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Norwegian man wakes to find cargo ship in his garden

Shipping company NCL said in a statement it was aware of the incident and was cooperating with the police investigation.

Israel

Israel's PM Netanyahu accuses Macron and Starmer of siding with Hamas

Earlier this week, the three leaders issued a joint statement condemning what they said was Israel's "egregious" military actions in Gaza and warning that they would take "concrete actions" if Netanyahu didn’t change course.

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