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By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) -Moldova broadened an investigation into the financing of a banned pro-Russian political grouping in the country, two days after the detention of the leader of a pro-Moscow ethnic minority. The detention at Chisinau airport of Eugenia Gutul, the leader of the autonomous region of Gagauzia, has further strained the former …

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By Vladimir Soldatkin and Dmitry Antonov MOSCOW (Reuters) – Geopolitical rivalries are intensifying in the Arctic but Russia is willing to cooperate with foreign partners, including from the West, in economic ventures there that will benefit all sides, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. In a major speech, Putin said U.S. President Donald Trump’s …

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By Francesco Guarascio and Khanh Vu HANOI (Reuters) -Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Friday Vietnam may buy Embraer planes and become a regional hub for Brazilian meat processing operations, as he met Vietnam’s President Luong Cuong in Hanoi. Lula also recognised the Communist-run country as a market economy, invited Vietnam to …

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By Daphne Psaledakis and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department said on Thursday that short-term funding was being given to an initiative documenting abducted Ukrainian children, after Republican President Donald Trump’s administration decided to pause the program on January 25. The U.S. government-funded initiative led by Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab helped track …

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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Peter Dutton, who seeks to become Australia’s prime minister in a May 3 national election, is known as a plain-speaking conservative who has attracted suburban voters with tough crime and border protection policies over two decades in parliament. A former policeman and small business owner, Dutton, 54, was defence …

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(Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested Ukraine could be placed under a form of temporary administration to allow for new elections and the signature of key accords with the aim of reaching a settlement in the war, Russian news agencies reported early on Friday. Putin, speaking in the northern port of Murmansk, also said he …

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By Max Hunder KHERSON, Ukraine (Reuters) – When he learned that U.S. President Donald Trump had suspended funding for a Yale University research project into Russia’s abduction of children from Ukraine, Volodymyr Sahaidak wondered if the perpetrators would ever be brought to justice. Sahaidak was running a rehabilitation centre for more than 50 children in …

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