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(Reuters) -Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday that the BRICS countries will welcome more members who will be chosen according to their geopolitical importance and not the ideology of their governments. At their summit in Johannesburg, the five BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – decided to …

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CANAKKALE, Turkey (Reuters) – Ship traffic resumed on Thursday in one direction in Turkey’s Dardanelles Strait, its forestry minister said, as firefighters brought a major blaze in the northwest Canakkale region under control. The strait, which links the Aegean Sea and Black Sea to the north, is a major shipping route for commodities such as …

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VILNIUS (Reuters) – Latvian president Edgars Rinkevics on Thursday tasked Evika Silina of the centre-right New Unity party with forming the next government following the resignation of Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins. Silina, a former lawyer who was welfare minister in the outgoing government, still needs to win a confidence vote in a fractured parliament, where …

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KUZHENKINO, Russia (Reuters) – Residents of a village near the site of a plane crash which is believed to have killed Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said they had heard a bang, then saw the jet plummet to the ground. The plane, an Embraer Legacy 600private jet, crashed on Wednesday near the village of Kuzhenkino …

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(Reuters) – Brazilian planemaker Embraer said on Wednesday it was compliant with all international sanctions imposed on Russia, after Russia’s TASS news agency reported that one of its planes carrying Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin had crashed. “Embraer has complied with international sanctions imposed on Russia,” a company spokesman said. He did not immediately respond …

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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – The Ugandan head of a United Nations agency complained on Wednesday that she was subjected to “racist harassment” by Swiss police who she said arrived outside her home and stopped her workout for no apparent reason. Winnie Byanyima, executive-director of the Geneva-based agency tasked with fighting AIDS (UNAIDS), said …

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By Riham Alkousaa BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s cabinet on Wednesday passed a draft bill to ease the citizenship law, hoping a faster track to German nationality will attract skilled migrants to plug chronic labour shortages holding back Europe’s biggest economy. Some experts caution that progress may be slow, noting parts of Germany’s administrative machinery are …

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