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After the fatal shootings by ICE officers in Minneapolis, some immigration and border control agents will be withdrawn from the city, Mayor Jacob Frey announced following a phone conversation with US President Donald Trump. Trump also contradicted members of the administration who had described Alex Pretti, the nurse who was shot on the weekend, as a would-be assassin, calling Pretti's death a " very unfortunate incident". Will the tensions in the US calm down now?

Representatives of the Russian opposition are now also members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). A total of 15 Russians and representatives of ethnic minorities living in exile are to participate in the assembly's Platform for Dialogue with Russia's Democratic Forces. Russia was expelled from the Council of Europe in 2022 following its attack on Ukraine.

The EU and India have concluded nearly 20 years of negotiations on a free trade agreement. Both sides had thus deepened the "partnership between the world's largest democracies", EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in New Delhi. The agreement covers a market of nearly two billion people. Commentators highlight its strategic importance.