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What are European leaders planning for Ukraine peace talks?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Several European leaders will meet in Paris tomorrow to try to come up with a response to U.S.-led negotiations on a peace plan for Ukraine. Terry Schultz reports Ukraine Envoy General Keith Kellogg told Europeans not to expect to be a party to the negotiations.
French President Emmanuel Macron has invited leaders from Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, the UK, NATO and European Union institutions to brainstorm about their approach to the US-led peace process for Ukraine. Christine Brazina with the German Marshall Fund says there's a lot to assess.
What is a spending plan and a capability plan that they can do for themselves? What is their recommendation to Ukraine?
The U.S. says European governments will be expected to monitor any potential ceasefire. So Brazina says they have reason to be displeased about being excluded. For Washington to sideline Europe in this process is a deep insult. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also wants Europe involved in negotiations. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.
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Afterward, Adams met with Homan and agreed to allow immigration agents to access the prison on Rikers Island. But Homan says the two events aren't related and that he had been seeking Adams' cooperation for months.
I'm not going to ask those officers to be immigration officers. I'm not going to push them to enforce immigration law. I told him I want to arrest the bad guy. I want to arrest the public safety threats. I want to get Riker Zion so we can get the public safety threat before they're released to the street. I want his help, especially the NYPD Intelligence Unit.
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On a website set up by his attorneys to provide updates on the case, a statement from Mangione reads, Pennsylvania's Governor-Democrat Josh Shapiro and other lawmakers have said that Mangione should not be treated like a folk hero. Mangione pleaded not guilty to 11 charges in New York, including first-degree murder. He also faces charges in federal court as well as in Pennsylvania.
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