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US offers prisoner swap to Russia
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Russia's Gazprom further cuts gas flow to Europe by half amid turbine dispute
Company says flow would fall to 33 million cubic metres per day starting Wednesday
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From pariah to the future Queen Consort: Camilla's rare royal transformation
Recent events have cemented stature of Duchess of Cornwall within Royal Family
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Major nation in ‘fascist’ crisis as PM quits
The Prime Minister has resigned, kicking off a snap election campaign which could bring the hard right to power.
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CIA director says there is no intelligence Vladimir Putin is dying of illness
The director of the CIA has weighed in on ongoing rumours about Vladimir Putin’s supposed ill health.
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EU prepares for ‘winter without Russian gas’
The bloc hopes to survive by boosting renewables and essentially pricing its own citizens out of the market
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Germany and France ‘killed’ Minsk agreements – Russia
Berlin and Paris torpedoed the 2015 ceasefire deal for Donbass by shielding Kiev’s non-compliance, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said
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Italian PM Draghi is stepping down
Mario Draghi won a confidence vote, but lost his coalition partners
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Final candidates to replace Boris Johnson revealed
Eight candidates are officially competing to replace the outgoing UK PM as Conservative Party leader
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EU gives Croatia final green light to adopt euro in 2023
EU finance ministers on Tuesday gave Croatia the final green light to adopt the euro single currency on January 1, 2023.
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Frontrunner for Johnson’s job revealed
Tories favor Ben Wallace as the next party leader, a snap poll showed
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Brittney Griner pleads guilty to drug charges during appearance in Russian court, per report
The U.S. classified Griner as "wrongfully detained" in May. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris phoned Griner's wife, Cherelle Griner, who pushed for increased urgency to free Griner during national media appearances.
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Defined by lies, Boris Johnson's political career has finally crumbled
British PM resigns after scandal involving his handling of sexual assault allegations against Conservative MP
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Surprise favourite to replace Boris as PM
All eyes are on Boris Johnson’s empty seat after the UK Prime Minister finally called it quits – and there’s a clear winner, according to a new poll.
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‘Must go’: Boris’ back-stabber twists knife
Conservative MPs are now resigning from Mr Johnson’s government en masse, with 31 quitting in 24 hours.
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Boris Johnson fights on but hit by new wave of resignations
Boris Johnson is battling to stay in office, amid a growing wave of resignations from his government in protest at his leadership.
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UK PM Boris Johnson seeks to stay in power until the mid-2030s
Earlier this month, Johnson survived a vote of confidence by Conservative lawmakers.
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French elections: Macron loses majority as French vote fragments
Less than two months after he was re-elected president, Emmanuel Macron has lost control of the French National Assembly following a strong performance by a left alliance and the far right.
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France’s Macron Projected to Lose Majority in Parliament
President’s party and allies are projected to remain the largest coalition after Sunday’s vote but without the seats to form a majority, a rebuke of his pro-business agenda
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‘A seismic event’: Le Pen’s party makes historic breakthrough in French parliament
Marine Le Pen’s far-right Rassemblement National (National Rally, or RN) made historic gains in Sunday’s French parliamentary election second round, on track to win 90 seats according to projections by Ipsos – a score way beyond the record gains polls predicted. Emmanuel Macron’s centrist bloc, meanwhile, underperformed polling expectations and fell well short of a majority – leaving a deal with conservative Les Républicains (LR) as his best hope for governing unencumbered.
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