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Mindich co-owned the production company Kvartal 95, founded by Zelensky when he was a star comedian.

The sole surviving member of the 10-person jihadist cell that staged the attacks, 36-year-old Salah Abdeslam, is serving life in jail. The other nine attackers blew themselves up or were killed by police.

Around 670,000 furloughed civil servants will report back to work, and a similar number who were kept at their posts with no compensation, including more than 60,000 air traffic controllers and airport security staff, will get back pay.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz has made bolstering Germany's ill-equipped military a major priority, citing a hostile Russia and doubts about future US security commitment to Europe.

He says there are things that he and Mkhwanazi share and will take to the grave.