(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will speak by video link on Tuesday. Since their Geneva summit in June, the list of contentious issues between their two countries has lengthened. Here’s a quick summary. UKRAINE AND POSSIBLE WESTERN SANCTIONS The United States has warned Russia it will face “severe costs” …
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(Reuters) – The United States has warned Russia not to invade Ukraine and urged both countries to return to a set of agreements designed to end a separatist war by Russian-speakers in eastern Ukraine. Here is a look at the agreements, which were signed in Minsk in 2014 and 2015. MINSK I Ukraine and the …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Monday described the state of U.S.-Russia relations as ” quite lamentable” on the eve of a video call between President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden when the two will discuss tensions around Ukraine. U.S. officials have in the last month pointed to unusual Russian troop movements …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian teenager who rammed a car into a military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Monday, seriously injuring an Israeli guard, Israel’s defence ministry said. The incident occurred at a roadblock between Israel and the central West Bank near the Palestinian city of Tulkarem. Speaking at the …
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(Adds Lambrecht, Lauterbach) BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) are nearing a coalition deal as they prepare to take charge of Europe’s biggest economy for the next four years. As top candidate for the SPD, which narrowly came first in September’s election, Olaf Scholz is on track …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Karl Lauterbach of Germany’s Social Democrats will serve as health minister and current justice minister Christine Lambrecht will become defence minister in the next German government, sources said on Monday. Lauterbach, who is a trained doctor and epidemiologist, has pushed for stricter measures to stave off the fourth wave of infections currently …
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SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria’s largest political party, We Continue The Change (PP), expects to forge a coalition government with three other parties soon and put an end to a political deadlock, PP leader Kiril Petkov said on Monday. The new centrist party won Bulgaria’s third parliamentary election this year on Nov. 14 on pledges to …
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By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union states spent nearly 200 billion euros ($225 billion) on defence in 2020, the most since records began in 2006, but joint investment by governments fell, the European Defence Agency (EDA) said in a report on Monday. The EDA, an EU agency that helps the bloc’s governments to …
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By Colin Packham CANBERRA (Reuters) – A chaotic parliament session has left Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison seeking a reset as his conservative coalition trails in opinion polls and infighting derails his legislative agenda less than six months before an election. Morrison had planned to use the last sitting of 2021 to pass bills that …
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Bob Dole, who overcame grievous World War Two combat wounds to become a pre-eminent figure in U.S. politics as a longtime Republican senator from Kansas and his party’s unsuccessful 1996 presidential nominee, died on Sunday. He was 98. Dole, known for a wit https://www.reuters.com/world/us/humor-late-former-senator-bob-dole-2021-12-05 that ranged from self-deprecating to caustic, …
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