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Swedish gin distillery Hernö Gin reports lower profit in the third quarter than in the same period last year.
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Russia and Ukraine both see opportunities to resume talks on a peace settlement, but only at a lower level. That is the most concrete result so far of US envoy Steve Witkoff’s meetings with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin, despite Witkoff’s effusive praise of Putin.
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With Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Oslo, Europe wanted to show a united front in support of Ukraine while also reaching out to the United States, according to Ukraine expert Fredrik Wesslau.
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Russia will listen to what the US envoy brings back from the Oslo meeting, but rules out political concessions. “We’ll see what they propose,” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, according to the state-controlled Tass news agency.
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Zelenskyy and European leaders propose three-way meeting with Trump and Putin after Oslo talks
Donald Trump is pressuring Ukraine and considering a summit with Putin and Xi. After an urgent meeting with Trump’s envoy in Oslo, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his European counterparts say they have a counterproposal. “We’ll see what Putin says about it,” the Ukrainian president says.
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Zelenskyy raises abducted Ukrainian children in meeting with King Haakon
When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with King Haakon, he raised the issue of the many children abducted from Ukraine and taken to Russia.
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Norway Sweeps All Five Nordic Council Prizes, Including Sami-Language Literature Award
For the first time, all the Nordic Council prizes have gone to the same country: Norway. It is also the first time in 35 years that the literature prize has been awarded to a novel in the Sami language.
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