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'No clear winner' from Israeli election, expert says

In this edition of Perspective, we focus on the results of the election in Israel. For analysis, we speak to Yossi Mekelberg, senior consulting fellow at Chatham House's Middle East and North Africa Programme. He tells us there is "no clear winner" from the country's pivotal vote.

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'It is clear that sooner or later we will have European casualties', Romanian MEP

Rescuers searched on Thursday for seven missing sailors after drones struck two chemical tankers near Romania's Black Sea coast, setting them ablaze and raising fresh security concerns along a vital shipping route used by Ukraine. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Europe editor Armen Georgian, Nicolae Stefanuta, Romanian MEP and Co-Chair of the Group of the Greens, says that the Danube delta region is facing a more intense threat from Russia than Baltic States and that "it is clear that sooner or later we will have European casualties".

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'It's clear that Moscow is just playing with Washington', analyst says

President Donald Trump's envoys told ​Ukrainian officials on Friday that a deal to allow Russian diesel exports is part of a bid to draw Russia back to negotiations after the failure of previous efforts to launch sustained talks to end the war, three people familiar with the meeting told Reuters. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks with Grégoire Roos, director of the Europe and Russia and Eurasia Programmes at Chatham House. He says that "it's clear that Moscow is just playing with Washington because Vladimir Putin knows that Donald Trump lives on borrowed time".

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Russia says all clear after contact tracing in reported plague case

Russia has detected no health issues or dangerous micro-organisms after tracing all contacts of a woman who reportedly died of plague, the governor of Siberia's Irkutsk region said Thursday. Russia has not confirmed the woman died of plague, and Governor Igor Kobzev said in his statement she had contracted "community-acquired pneumonia".

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