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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Friday that its forces had taken control of the strategic coal-mining city of Toretsk in eastern Ukraine, but Ukraine’s military denied the city had been captured and reported heavy fighting in and around it. Reuters could not independently confirm battlefield accounts from either side. Russia calls the city, …

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By Trevor Hunnicutt, David Brunnstrom and Chizu Nomiyama WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Friday pushed Japan to invest in U.S. energy and technology, showered his closest Asian ally with praise and sought a way out of a dispute over a Japanese bid for U.S. Steel during Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s first White House visit. …

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GENEVA (Reuters) -More than six million people could die from HIV and AIDS in the next four years if U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration pulls its global funding for programmes, the United Nations AIDS agency said on Friday. Although a waiver was placed on HIV/AIDS programmes in last month’s U.S. foreign aid funding freeze, many …

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PARIS (Reuters) – French prosecutors said on Friday they have opened an investigation into Elon Musk’s X social media platform over alleged algorithmic bias. News of the probe comes just days before a major AI summit in Paris, which is due to host global leaders including U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Indian Prime Minister …

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By Tom Balmforth and Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pored over a once-classified map of vast deposits of rare earths and other critical minerals during an interview with Reuters on Friday, part of a push to appeal to Donald Trump’s penchant for a deal. The U.S. president, whose administration is pressing …

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By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen NUUK, Greenland (Reuters) -Renewed U.S. interest has given a boost to Greenland’s independence movement and strengthened its position in future secession talks with Denmark, according to the country’s leading pro-independence party. The Arctic island is due to vote on March 11 in an election where independence has become the main topic, following …

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