The prospect of presidential and parliamentary elections in Romania in November and December had triggered a spending surge that was expected to push the 2024 budget deficit to 8.6% of GDP.

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A US official said the $3.4 billion in budget funding brings the total in US budget aid to Ukraine to just over $30 billion since Russia's invasion in February 2022.

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One of the seven pillars of security defined by Poland ahead of the EU Presidency is health security. High on the agenda will be acceleration of progress on the EU's pharmaceutical package.

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Cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of mortality in the Czech Republic. The goal of the new plan is to prevent further episodes, improve quality of life, and allow patients to maintain their independence.

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The prime minister also denied a toll in the thousands, calling the claims "unfounded".

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The Israeli military said Hamas militants were the targets of a strike on Gaza City's Al Wafa hospital on Sunday, which the Palestinian civil defence said killed seven people.

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Experts say many questions remain, including why the planeappeared to be travelling so fast and why its landing gear did not appear to be down when it skidded down the runway and into a wall.

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"Unfortunately, in the first three days we heard only absurd versions from Russia," the president Ilham Aliyev said. He added that he wanted Russia to accept it was guilty of downing the plane and to punish those responsible.

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Carter's one-term presidency was marked by the highs of the 1978 Camp David accords between Israel and Egypt, bringing some stability to the Middle East.

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During his fis first term Milanović has clashed with Prime Minister Andrej Plenković over foreign and public policy and has fiercely criticised the EU and NATO over their support for Ukraine.

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The support of the AfD from Musk, who is set to serve US President-elect Donald Trump's administration as an outside adviser, comes as Germans are set to vote on 23 February.

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In this episode, host Giada Santana and agrifood reporter Sofia Sánchez Manzanaro outline supporters and detractors of EUDR, and possible scenarios ahead of the vote.

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The outgoing president said an election rerun is the only way to resolve the crisis.

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Video shared by local media showed the twin-engine aircraft skidding down the runway with no apparent landing gear before slamming into a wall in an explosion of flame

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Shortly after the piece was published online, the editor of the opinion section, Eva Marie Kogel, wrote on X that she had submitted her resignation.

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"Slovakia is part of the single European energy market and Fico must respect common EU rules," Zelenskyy said, adding that cutting power supplies to Ukraine would deprive Slovakia of 19% of the electricity it imports. .

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The extremely rare publicised apology from Putin was the closest Moscow had come to accepting some blame for Wednesday's disaster.

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Baltic nations are on alert after a string of outages of power cables, telecom links and gas pipelines since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

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The US said Ivanishvili had implemented "actions or policies that undermine democratic processes or institutions in the United States or abroad" favouring Russia.

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Zelenskyy said the Korean people "should not be losing their lives in battles in Europe. This is something that Korea's neighbours, including China, can influence."

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