By Daren Butler and Ece Toksabay ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) – The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, which has been locked in bloody conflict with Turkey for more than four decades, has decided to disband and end its armed struggle, group members and Turkish leaders said on Monday. Since the PKK launched its insurgency in 1984 …

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MILAN (Reuters) – Italian ceramics billionaire Romano Minozzi has emerged as a significant shareholder in the Italian energy group Eni with a stake of just over 3%, regulatory filings showed on Monday. He held 3.095% of the company as of May 5, market regulator Consob said. Minozzi, one of the founders of multinational group Iris …

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LONDON (Reuters) -The leader of a British-based Russian spy ring which prosecutors said carried out surveillance for the Kremlin was sentenced in a London court on Monday to nearly 11 years in jail, as his five team members were jailed for a total of about 40 years. Orlin Roussev, 47, pleaded guilty before trial to …

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By Tom Balmforth, Yuliia Dysa and Steve Holland KYIV/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump offered on Monday to join prospective Ukraine-Russia talks in Turkey later this week as European countries pushed to get the Kremlin to accept their demand for a 30-day ceasefire in the war in Ukraine. Trump spoke a day after Ukrainian …

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