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                  President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of Greece.
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             The ripple effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine played out yesterday diplomatically
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              as leaders jockeyed to cement new alliances in a scrambled world
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             Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, arrived in Athens for meetings with the leaders of Greece and other Balkan nations to discuss security concerns and better integration with Europe. It was Zelensky’s
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             aimed at securing more weaponry. A day earlier, he received commitments of dozens of F-16 fighter jets from Denmark and the Netherlands.
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             As Zelensky was making his way to Greece,
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              an Iranian military delegation was visiting Russia
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             , a sign of how deep ties between Moscow and Tehran have become since the war began.
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             Brig. Gen. Kioumars Heydari, the head of Iran’s ground forces, was welcomed to Moscow by his Russian counterpart. Heydari said that Tehran’s ground forces were ready to increase their cooperation with Russia, Iran’s state news agency reported.
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              E.U. commitments:
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             In Sweden on Saturday, Zelensky said he had reached an agreement involving the supply of armored vehicles. On Sunday, Zelensky went on to the Netherlands —
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              securing a pledge for 42 F-16 fighter jets
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             — and later Denmark, which said it would donate 19 of the military jets.
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             In Athens, Zelensky referred to a Greek proposal to train Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 fighter jets. But late yesterday, it was unclear what, if anything, Ukraine and Greece had agreed to.
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             Human Rights Watch said in a report released yesterday said that border guards in Saudi Arabia had regularly
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             seeking to cross into the kingdom from Yemen. Hundreds — and possibly thousands — of men, women and children were killed between March 2022 and June of this year, the report estimated.
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             The guards have beaten the migrants with rocks and bars, forced male migrants to rape women while guards watched and shot detained migrants in their limbs, the report said, adding that the shooting of migrants was “widespread and systematic” and could constitute a crime against humanity.
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