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(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff said on Friday that a full withdrawal of Russian troops, and not just peace talks, were essential to ending his country’s more than 2-1/2-year-old war against Moscow. The chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, was addressing an international meeting devoted to implementing a peace plan, one of …

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By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) – The Canadian government should have acted sooner to stem the flow of temporary migration into the country, Immigration Minister Marc Miller told Reuters on Friday. This week Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, facing low approval ratings and anger over a housing shortage and high cost of living, announced …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia is ready to continue pumping gas through Ukraine after the current gas transit deal expires at the end of the year, but sees indications Ukraine may not be willing to extend the contract, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. Ukraine has already said it does not want to renew the …

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By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) – The road ahead in coalition talks between Austria’s two main centrist parties will be long and most likely “very rocky” at times, conservative Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who is leading the talks, said on Friday as they began. The far-right Freedom Party (FPO) won last month’s parliamentary election for the …

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By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) -The International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Friday it had replaced one of the judges deciding on a prosecution request for an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a move that could lead to further delays in the case. Romanian magistrate Iulia Motoc asked to …

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(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has rejected a plan for the U.N. Secretary General to visit Kyiv due to Antonio Guterres’s attendance at this week’s BRICS summit in Russia, a Ukrainian official said on Friday. Kyiv was enraged by Guterres’s appearance at the event in the city of Kazan on Thursday and his handshake …

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