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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Tuesday said that French assertions that President Vladimir Putin had promised Emmanuel Macron that Moscow would not carry out new military initiatives around Ukraine for now were “not right”. A French official said Putin had made the pledge during long talks in Moscow on Monday evening with Macron. Kremlin …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian news agencies reported the start of military drills in southern Russia on Tuesday, hours after Paris said Vladimir Putin had promised not to stage new manoeuvres near the border with Ukraine for the time being. The three weeks of nighttime tactical drills would involve missile systems, tanks and armoured vehicles, Russian …

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KYIV (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin promised not to carry out new military initiatives near Ukraine for the time being as a precursor to possible de-escalation, a French official said after Putin had talks with France’s Emmanuel Macron. The Russian leader, according to the French official, also agreed that troops taking part in a …

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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A group of 33 Republican senators warned U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday that they would work to thwart implementation of any new Iran nuclear agreement if his government did not allow Congress to review and vote on its terms. Led by Senator Ted Cruz, a long-time opponent of …

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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Two potential successors to 86-year-old Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas were named on Monday to top posts in the Palestine Liberation Organization at a meeting boycotted by his Islamist rivals. Official Palestinian news agency WAFA said the PLO’s 141-member Central Council appointed Hussein Al-Sheikh, 61, an Abbas confidant who serves as …

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By Neil Jerome Morales and Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) – Campaigning for the Philippines’ general election gets underway officially on Tuesday, with COVID-19 curtailing the traditional fanfare and big rallies and turning the focus to social media as the key battleground for the May 9 contest. As with the 2016 polls that catapulted Rodrigo Duterte …

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