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Key Russian ally Belarus says militray excercises pose no threat to Europe

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi becomes the first world leader to have a face-to-face meeting with his frequently cited “friend” Emmanuel Macron following the French president’s re-election victory. While India, unlike France, still refuses to publicly condemn Russia over the Ukraine war, the two leaders share plenty of common ground.

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Evacuees from besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol reach Zaporizhzhia; Russia attacks steel works where 200 people remain trapped

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's suggestion that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had Jewish origins showed that Moscow has forgotten, or never learned, the lessons of World War Two.

Israel on Monday lashed out at Russia over "unforgivable" comments by its foreign minister about Nazism and antisemitism - including claims that Adolf Hitler was Jewish.

Israel lambasted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday for claiming that Adolf Hitler was part Jewish, saying it was an "unforgivable" falsehood that debased the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust.

Israel condemns comments by Sergei Lavrov, who said Hitler ‘had Jewish blood’ and the ‘most rabid antisemites tend to be Jews’

‘The lowest level of racism against Jews is to blame Jews themselves for antisemitism’