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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he was considering Australia’s request to drop the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who had released troves of confidential U.S. classified documents and is battling extradition to the United States. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who has long expressed opposition …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The test launch of Russia’s Angara-A5 rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome was aborted on Wednesday for the second time this week. “The command to cancel the launch has been issued,” said an announcement made through loudspeakers mere seconds before takeoff at the launch site in Russia’s Far East. It was not immediately clear …

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By Karolina Tagaris ORMENIO, Greece (Reuters) – Army sergeant Christos Giannakidis was planning to have a second child when Greece’s debt crisis exploded last decade, straining his finances and erasing hope of extending the family. One son is expensive enough, he says, especially the cost of ferrying him around his remote corner of northeastern Greece …

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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s foreign minister Penny Wong said Canberra would consider recognition of a Palestinian state, a shift in policy as the international community looks for a two-state solution to end the Israel-Palestinian conflict. In a speech on Tuesday evening, Wong backed comments by Britain’s foreign minister David Cameron who has …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday to remove Russian billionaires Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven from a list of individuals facing European Union sanctions after Russia’s attack on Ukraine in 2022. “The General Court considers that none of the reasons set out in the initial acts is sufficiently substantiated …

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