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An area of the F.D. Roosevelt University Hospital where Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was taken after a shooting incident in Handlova, is cordoned off, in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, May 15, 2024. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was in a life-threatening condition after he was shot in a "politically motivated" assassination attempt when leaving a government meeting on Wednesday, the interior minister said.
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