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BERLIN (AP) — German officials say they expect more people to be detained in connection with an alleged far-right plan to topple the government that saw 25 people rounded up Wednesday, including a self-styled prince, a retired paratrooper and a judge.

The plot was allegedly hatched by people linked to the so-called Reich Citizens movement, which rejects Germany’s postwar constitution and the legitimacy of the government.

07 Dec 2022; MEMO: Some 28 migrants fled from a plane that made an emergency landing in Barcelona on Wednesday, when a pregnant woman faked going into labour during a Morocco to Turkiye flight, before police rounded up half of them, the Spanish government said, Reuters reports.

After landing at El Prat Airport, the woman was checked at a hospital and found she had not gone into labour, the government said.

BERLIN, December 7. /TASS/: The Minsk accords were signed in order to "give Ukraine time" to make the country stronger, ex-German Chancellor Angela Merkel (in office from 2005 to 2021) said in an interview with the Zeit newspaper published on Wednesday.

"The 2014 Minsk agreement was an attempt to give time to Ukraine. It also used this time to become stronger as can be seen today. The Ukraine of 2014-2015 is not the modern Ukraine," the politician said.

BERLIN, December 7. /TASS/: The Minsk accords were signed in order to "give Ukraine time" to make the country stronger, ex-German Chancellor Angela Merkel (in office from 2005 to 2021) said in an interview with the Zeit newspaper published on Wednesday.

"The 2014 Minsk agreement was an attempt to give time to Ukraine. It also used this time to become stronger as can be seen today. The Ukraine of 2014-2015 is not the modern Ukraine," the politician said.

DONETSK, December 7. /TASS/: Numerous residents who left Mariupol due to military activities have returned to the city, Acting Head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Denis Pushilin said in an interview with TASS.

"There are now traffic jams in Mariupol, which point to positive changes. A great number of residents have returned to the city and markets have reopened," he noted.

MOSCOW, December 7. /TASS/: President of Russia Vladimir Putin and his counterpart in the United Arab Emirates Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan discussed the decision of Western countries to impose non-market restrictions on the price of Russian oil in a telephone conversation, the Kremlin’s press service reported on Wednesday.

MOSCOW, December 7 /TASS/: Western countries are blindly using developing nations, encouraging them to support the seizure of Russian assets and the creation of a tribunal against Russia within the UN General Assembly, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the Primakov Readings forum on Wednesday.

MOSCOW, December 7. /TASS/: The special military operation is a long process, but it has already yielded significant results, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with members of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC) on Wednesday.

GENEVA, Dec 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Negotiators are meeting in Geneva this week to thrash out a pandemic treaty aimed at ensuring the flaws that turned Covid-19 into a global crisis could never happen again.

As the third anniversary of the virus emerging rolls around, negotiators are raking over an early concept draft of what might eventually make it into an international agreement on how to handle future pandemics.

LONDON, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that his army could be fighting in Ukraine for a long time, but he saw "no sense" in mobilising additional soldiers at this point.

"As for the duration of the special military operation, well, of course, this can be a long process," Putin said, using his preferred term for Russia's invasion, begun in February.