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By Robin Emmott, Tom Balmforth and Vladimir Soldatkin BRUSSELS/MOSCOW (Reuters) -Britain said on Thursday the “most dangerous moment” in the West’s standoff with Moscow appeared imminent, as Russia held military exercises in Belarus and the Black Sea following the buildup of its forces near Ukraine. Ukraine also staged war games and the United States urged …

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By David Brunnstrom and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump has told associates he has remained in contact with North Korea’s reclusive leader Kim Jong Un since leaving the White House, according to a report on Thursday amid raised tensions over recent North Korean missile tests. “As we know, he had a …

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By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin spent much of his marathon talks with France’s Emmanuel Macron this week on the Ukraine crisis reciting grievances that date back to the end of the Cold War, two sources in the French leader’s entourage said. In the first detailed read-out on Monday’s meeting in …

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By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber, Iain Axon and Karolos Grohmann BEIJING (Reuters) -Russia’s 15-year-old figure skating sensation Kamila Valieva giggled with her coaches but turned serious for her own routine as she practiced on Thursday at the Winter Olympics despite reports of testing positive for a banned substance. The teenager was part of the Russian Olympic Committee …

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By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber, Iain Axon and Karolos Grohmann BEIJING (Reuters) – Russia’s 15-year-old figure skating sensation Kamila Valieva giggled with her coaches but turned serious for her own routine as she practiced on Thursday at the Winter Olympics despite reports of testing positive for a banned substance. The teenager was part of the Russian Olympic …

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BUCHAREST (Reuters) – United States troops relocating to Romania from Germany will reach the country on Wednesday night, Romania’s defence ministry said, and will shield NATO’s eastern flank from potential spillover from the Ukraine crisis. The United States is sending nearly 3,000 extra troops to Poland and Romania to bolster Eastern European defences. In Romania, …

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By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A partial tattoo kit offered at auction in Israel as an Auschwitz artefact is highly unlikely to have been used on Jews at the Nazi concentration camp, a court-ordered investigation has found following outcry from Holocaust survivors. The eight fingernail-sized steel dies, each lined with pins to form numerals, …

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