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A longstanding agreement with the US allows Washington to use the Azores air base without prior authorization during peacetime, but requires ​Portugal to give approval once hostilities begin.

Polish special services are preparing for possible Russian sabotage operations aimed at inflaming tensions between Poles and Ukrainians, Tomasz Siemoniak, ​minister in charge of special services, told RMF FM Radio ‌on Wednesday.

Iran said that the closure was the first step in response to what it described as breaches of commitments and ​warned that ​further measures ⁠would be taken if aggression continued.

The United States and Iran signalled on Friday that an agreement to end their war was ​close, with a senior U.S. administration official saying both sides had agreed on a text and that Washington expects to sign an initial deal in the coming days.

Thousands of Albanians took to the streets of Tirana late ‌on Thursday in the largest protest this week against a planned luxury resort on an environmentally sensitive part of the Adriatic coast by a company linked to U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law.

The write-off is about ​the price of a 35 square metre studio-type apartment in Moscow.

A U.S. jury found OpenAI not liable to the world's richest person for having allegedly strayed from ‌its original mission to benefit humanity.