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Sweden to spend $440 million on unmanned military drone systems
SALEN, Sweden, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Sweden will spend 4 billion crowns ($437 million) on unmanned drone systems to be delivered over the next two years, the country's Defence Minister Pal Jonson said on Monday.
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Mexico’s Sheinbaum says had 'good conversation' with Trump on security, drugs
MEXICO CITY, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday she had a "good conversation" with U.S. President Donald Trump on security and efforts to reduce drug trafficking.
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Germany's Klingbeil, on Powell probe, says central bank independence is 'clear line'
WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil on Monday said that central bank independence was a "clear line" for him, when asked about the U.S. Justice Department's probe into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
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Cuba's Diaz-Canel says there are no current talks with US government
HAVANA, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on Monday there are no talks with the United States government in an apparent response to comments the day before by U.S. President Donald Trump suggesting the two longtime rivals were in conversations.
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NATO discussing next steps to ensure Arctic stays safe, Rutte says
BRUSSELS, Jan 12 (Reuters) - NATO member countries are discussing and working on the next steps for how to collectively keep the Arctic safe, alliance chief Mark Rutte said on Monday.
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Georgian ex-PM Garibashvili to serve five-year sentence after guilty plea
TBILISI, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Former Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili will serve a five-year prison sentence, prosecutors said on Monday, after he agreed to plea guilty to charges of large-scale money laundering.
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Spanish police seize record 10 tons of cocaine hidden in cargo of salt
MADRID, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Spanish police have made their largest-ever cocaine seizure on the high seas, intercepting a vessel carrying almost 10 metric tons of the drug concealed in a shipment of salt en route from Brazil to Europe, police said on Monday.
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Italy to upgrade relations with Venezuela as two more Italians freed
ROME, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Venezuela has released Italian citizens Alberto Trentini and Mario Burlo from prison, Italy said on Monday, pledging to upgrade relations with Caracas in response.
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European commissioner says U.S. military takeover of Greenland would be end of NATO
SALEN, Sweden, Jan 12 (Reuters) - It would be the end of NATO if the U.S. took Greenland by force and European Union member states are under obligation to come to Denmark's assistance if it was faced with military aggression, the European Commissioner for Defence and Space said on Monday.
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Swiss court keeps bar owner in custody after deadly fire
GENEVA, Jan 12 (Reuters) - A Swiss court on Monday ordered that the co-owner of a bar in the upscale ski resort of Crans-Montana that caught fire on New Year's Day, killing 40 people, must remain in custody.
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France launches recruitment campaign for new voluntary military service
PARIS, Jan 12 (Reuters) - France said on Monday it was launching a campaign to recruit thousands of young people for a new 10-month voluntary national military service, with the first participants starting their service in September.
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Norway gives $400 million to Ukraine for energy sector, administration
Jan 12 (Reuters) - Norway said on Monday it was providing 340 million euros ($397 million) in emergency funding to support Ukraine's energy sector and help the government maintain critical services, as part of the Nordic country's wider aid to the war-torn nation in 2026.
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Germany's Merz expects US participation in Greenland's protection
AHMEDABAD, India, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday he expects the United States to continue to protect Greenland together with Denmark but ongoing talks would determine the exact nature of the collaboration.
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Pope Leo meets Venezuelan opposition leader Machado at Vatican
VATICAN CITY, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Pope Leo met Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel peace prize winner Maria Corina Machado on Monday, the Vatican said, but did not provide any further details.
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Venezuela says 116 prisoners released as rights group cites lower figure
Jan 12 (Reuters) - Venezuela's government said on Monday that 116 prisoners have been released "in the past few hours," according to a statement from the Penitentiary Services Ministry, though rights groups reported a lower figure.
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Bulgaria's biggest party rejects offer to form new government, snap election likely
SOFIA, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Bulgaria's biggest parliamentary grouping, the centre-right GERB-SDS, declined a request on Monday from the president to try and form a new government, increasing the likelihood of a snap election in the European Union's poorest member state.
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Paris' Louvre museum closed on Monday due to strike
PARIS, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Paris' Louvre museum will be closed on Monday due to a strike protest from staff, who have gone strike several times during the past weeks over pay and working conditions, said the museum on its website.
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Soccer-Former French player, coach and commentator Courbis dies at 72
PARIS, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Former French footballer, coach and outspoken media commentator Rolland Courbis has died aged 72, his employer said on Monday.
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UK police chief says London getting safer despite Trump and others' remarks on crime wave
LONDON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Britain's most senior police officer said on Monday that London's homicide rate had fallen to its lowest for more than a decade, showing the city was becoming safer, despite remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump and others on violent crime in the capital.
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Finnish police release Russia-linked ship held in cable sabotage case
COPENHAGEN, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Finnish police said on Monday they had lifted a seizure on the "Fitburg" cargo ship, which had been held on suspicion of sabotaging an undersea telecoms cable running from Helsinki to Estonia across the Gulf of Finland.
