(Reuters) – The U.S. military must work to provide options to ensure the United States has full access to the Panama Canal, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Thursday. President Donald Trump has said repeatedly he wants to “take back” the Panama Canal, which is located at the narrowest part of the isthmus between North …
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By John Irish and Daphne Psaledakis LA MALBAIE, Canada (Reuters) -Diplomats from the G7 nations were set to negotiate late into the night over a joint statement to show a united front in Canada on Thursday after weeks of tension between U.S. allies and President Donald Trump over his upending of Western trade and security …
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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russian officials have communicated to their counterparts in the United States that they do not want Russia-Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg involved in top-level discussions aimed at ending the Ukraine war, according to a U.S. official and another source with knowledge of the matter. Kellogg has been personally absent from …
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By Felix Light and Nailia Bagirova TBILISI/BAKU (Reuters) -Armenian and Azerbaijani officials said on Thursday that they had agreed the text of a peace agreement to end nearly four decades of conflict between the South Caucasus countries, a sudden breakthrough in a fitful and often bitter peace process. The two post-Soviet countries have fought a …
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By Felix Light TBILISI (Reuters) – Armenia and Azerbaijan were locked in conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh for nearly four decades after the Soviet Union they were both members of collapsed. Here is a look at the history of the conflict and the latest developments as Armenian and Azerbaijani officials said on Thursday that they had agreed …
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By Andrei Khalip and Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) -Portugal will hold an early parliamentary election – its third in just over three years – on May 18, President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said on Thursday, two days after the centre-right minority government lost a parliamentary confidence vote. The president made the widely-expected decision to disband …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Russia’s Vladimir Putin is preparing a rejection of a ceasefire proposal, but is scared to say this directly to U.S. President Donald Trump. Zelenskiy, speaking in his evening address, said Russia is setting conditions on a ceasefire in order to delay it, or make it …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Belgian prosecutors said on Thursday they had detained several individuals over suspected bribery in the European Parliament allegedly for the benefit of China’s Huawei. Belgian investigators carried out searches of 21 premises across Belgium and in Portugal on Thursday morning. A judge had since requested that the offices of two parliamentary assistants be …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine will not agree to a frozen conflict with Russia, the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, said on Thursday after Kyiv and Washington jointly proposed a 30-day ceasefire in the war. Ukraine has frequently accused Russia of trying to create a frozen conflict – commonly understood to be one which …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s constitutional court on Thursday dismissed a complaint by the leftist Sarah Wagenknecht Alliance seeking to legally challenge the results of the national election due to alleged counting errors. The populist BSW, which was created last year, scored 4.97% in last month’s election, lacking just 13,400 votes to enter parliament in a …
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