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By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump told European leaders on Thursday that Europe must stop buying Russian oil that he said is helping Moscow fund its war against Ukraine, a White House official said, striking a combative tone amid slow diplomatic progress to end the fighting. Trump joined a call of the “Coalition of …

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By Nolan D. McCaskill and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein demanded on Wednesday that the U.S. Congress pass legislation forcing the release of all unclassified records related to the disgraced financier held by President Donald Trump’s administration. “This is about ending secrecy wherever abuse of power takes root,” said …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department announced a plan on Thursday to bring Gilead Sciences Inc’s drug lenacapavir to market “at cost” in high-burden HIV countries in an effort to reach two million people over three years.  The company will offer the long-acting HIV prevention drug to the Global Fund and the U.S. government’s PEPFAR …

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By Giulia Segreti and Keith Weir ROME (Reuters) -It all began with the jacket. Giorgio Armani twisted and bruised the angular piece of clothing – tearing out the padding, adjusting the proportions, moving the buttons – until he was left with something supple as a cardigan, light as a shirt. “Removing all rigidity from the …

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By Marc Jones and Rodrigo Campos LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) -The former head of emerging-market debt at asset manager BlackRock and grandson of one of Bolivia’s most famous presidents is offering to help the winner of next month’s presidential election fix the country’s debt problems. The October 19 runoff is between centrist Rodrigo Paz and right-wing …

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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese discussed opportunities for Australia and the United States to cooperate on critical minerals in a phone call with President Donald Trump on Thursday evening, his office said. The two leaders spoke about opportunities to work together on trade and critical minerals “in the interests of …

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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -A U.N. body has found that the United States and the United Arab Emirates are jointly responsible for holding an Afghan man in arbitrary detention in Abu Dhabi for over two years in a case rights groups say is emblematic of thousands of others. The man, a former police force …

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By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -The U.S. military killed 11 people aboard a vessel in the Caribbean on Tuesday that President Donald Trump said was carrying illegal narcotics and that belonged to a drug cartel he designated a terrorist organization responsible for murders in the United States. Below is a look at the legal …

Explainer-Was the deadly US attack on the Venezuelan vessel legal? Read More »

By Vivian Sequera CARACAS (Reuters) -For the first residents of Parque Central in Caracas, moving into the futuristic, vertical “city within a city” was the dream of an emerging Venezuelan middle class. Now, after decades of decay, a new effort is underway to restore the renowned complex. Planned in 1969 and inaugurated in stages over …

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By Michael Kahn and Supantha Mukherjee PRAGUE/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -When former German army officer Matt Kuppers evaluated an Austrian startup’s anti-drone weapons system, his military eye spotted what the young civilian founders had missed: the heated gun barrel lost accuracy after repeated firings. That insight exemplifies how military veterans are reshaping Europe’s defence technology landscape, bringing …

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