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The head of the group's executive commission, Ursula von der Leyen, arrived in Kyiv by train on Thursday, a symbolic journey to demonstrate support for Ukraine.

Overnight, markets sensed the end of the massive global tightening cycle, after policymakers in Britain and Europe signalled their intention to pause, sending local bonds rallying and currencies lower.

At the talks, both sides agreed to show mutual respect, particularly in regards to matters of sovereignty.

Israel's Paris embassy said the pair would discuss "the international effort to stop the Iranian nuclear programme".

The consumer price index was 5.2% higher in January than in the same month a year before, rising faster than the 5.0% rate seen in December, Statistics Korea data showed on Thursday.

Bilateral trade rose to 17 billion euros in 2022, making Spain Morocco's biggest trade partner.

It ends, after a perilous trek overland through Latin America across at least 11 countries, with scaling the border wall and jumping onto U.S. soil.

The overnight attacks -- which Israel's army confirmed in a statement at 02:41 am (0041 GMT) -- come hours after the army intercepted a rocket fired from the Palestinian territory.

Deby announced the plan on Wednesday as he began a visit to Israel. An Israeli official said the Muslim-majority African country's embassy would be in the Tel Aviv area.

A weaker greenback makes U.S. dollar-priced oil less expensive for holders of other currencies, boosting demand.

The "amicable and mutually agreeable settlement" ends a $2 billion row over surface damage on the long-haul jets.

Bakhmut and 10 towns and villages around it came under Russian fire, the Ukrainian military said late on Wednesday. Bakhmut has suffered persistent Russian bombardment for months.

A suicide bomber slipped undetected into a highly sensitive police headquarters and detonated explosives among a row of worshippers in the compound's mosque on Monday, causing a wall to collapse and crush officers.

Blinken is urging calm on both sides after last week's killing by a Palestinian gunman of seven people outside a Jerusalem synagogue and anger among Palestinians over actions by Israeli forces and settlers in the occupied West Bank.

The move comes with France yet to commit to sending Leclerc main battle tanks to Ukraine, after spending weeks pressuring Berlin to supply its Leopard 2 and allow allies to re-export the German-made tanks.

The boys aged between seven and 14 were all students of a madrassa and had been taken for a day trip to the scenic Tanda Dam lake on Sunday.

The fact the summit is being held in the Ukrainian capital sends "a powerful signal to both partners and enemies", Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said.

The village of Swietoszow in western Poland, near the German border, hosts one of just three Leopard training centres in Europe - the others are in Germany and Switzerland.

The two countries, which during the Cold War were constrained by a tangle of arms control agreements, still account together for about 90% of the world's nuclear warheads.

The United States is readying more than $2 billion worth of military aid for Ukraine that is expected to include longer-range rockets for the first time as well as other munitions and weapons, two U.S.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's government is lobbying hard for some of its neighbours and Western allies to supply fighter jets that it can use to repulse Russian advances.

Iraq has in recent months been making efforts to ensure its banking system is compliant with the international electronic transfer system known as SWIFT.

Lebanon, whose flag bears a cedar tree, is known for its greenery, with forests covering 13 percent of the Middle Eastern country's territory, according to official data.

The two leaders held the discussion via a phone conversation on Monday.

Turkey's advances across the increasingly depopulated border of Iraqi Kurdistan attract little global attention compared to its incursions into Syria or the battle against Islamic State.

The opposition's 2,300-point programme aims to roll back many of the powers Erdogan has wrested from parliament and ministries in the latter years of his tumultuous rule.

Amzil, who works for a trading company in Casablanca, has asked her mother why they only spoke Arabic at home.

With prospects for political progress bleaker than they have been for years and with world powers now distracted by the Ukraine war, violence has steadily been rising.

A Ukrainian military spokesman in charge of the area said that Russia's attacks were unsuccessful.