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EU Parliament approves phase out of Russian gas imports
BRUSSELS, Dec 17 (Reuters) - The European Parliament on Wednesday approved the bloc's plan to phase...
17th December, 2025
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Putin says Russia will take more land in Ukraine if Europe sinks peace moves
MOSCOW, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that there were some c...
17th December, 2025
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Italy's Meloni says it's still 'premature' to sign EU-Mercosur trade deal
ROME, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Wednesday it would be "premat...
17th December, 2025
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Russian attack on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia injures 26, governor says
KYIV, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Russian glide bomb attacks in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region wounde...
17th December, 2025
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Decline in UK industrial orders eases slightly, CBI says
LONDON, Dec 17 (Reuters) - British industrial orders fell again in December but by the smallest amou...
17th December, 2025
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Italy's Meloni says using frozen Russian assets for Ukraine 'far from easy' ahead of EU summit
ROME, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Russia is making "unreasonable" demands in a U.S.-brokered push for peace w...
17th December, 2025
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UK removes duplicate entries from sanctions lists, designations remain in place
LONDON, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Britain on Wednesday made four de-listings under its Syria sanctions regi...
17th December, 2025
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How combative videographers fire up Britain's asylum hotel protests
By Andrew MacAskill and Andrew R.C. Marshall MANCHESTER, England, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Adam didn’t set...
17th December, 2025
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UK police charge teenage boy with nine-year-old girl's murder
LONDON, Dec 17 (Reuters) - British police said they had charged a 15-year old boy with murder on Wed...
17th December, 2025
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Paris' Louvre reopens partially but staff vote to extend strike
PARIS, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Staff at France's Louvre museum in Paris on Wednesday voted in favour of e...
17th December, 2025
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Portugal's government to amend labour reform after general strike
By Sergio Goncalves LISBON, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Portugal's centre-right minority government has said...
17th December, 2025
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Kremlin says Russia's position on European troops in Ukraine is known but open to discussions
MOSCOW, Dec 17 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Russia's position on the deployment of...
17th December, 2025