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    Ukrainian ex-officer Serhii Kuznetsov goes on trial in Hamburg over Nord Stream blasts

    Prosecutors allege that the 50-year-old led a team of divers and an explosives expert who planted charges on the pipelines in 2022. His lawyers argue the pipelines were legitimate military targets and ask the court to halt the case.

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The day’s hardest news came from Ukraine, where missiles, drones and a satellite-data dispute blurred the line between battlefield damage and allied mistrust. Elsewhere, energy politics strained sanctions, governments confronted unrest, and companies gave investors a split picture of an AI boom that still cuts jobs.

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European democracies and populism

Incremental moves: a symbolic AfD-BSW motion, Le Pen's budget rhetoric and a softened EU budget deadline, none altering institutions.

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