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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to the leaders of China, India and three ex-Soviet states on Friday in a flurry of calls to brief them on his contacts with the United States about the war in Ukraine. Putin met U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow on Wednesday, after which the …

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico is not investigating alleged ties between Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the Sinaloa Cartel and has no evidence of such ties, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Friday. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday announced the U.S. was doubling its reward to $50 million for information leading to Maduro’s arrest …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Azerbaijan and Armenia will sign a peace agreement on Friday, the White House said, after President Donald Trump said he would host the leaders of both nations for a signing ceremony. “This isn’t just about Armenia. It’s not just about Azerbaijan. It’s about the entire region, and they know that that region is …

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By Wen-Yee Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan-based Sino-American Silicon Products said on Friday its subsidiary GlobalWafers received just over $200 million from the U.S. CHIPS Act in June, about half of a grant the major silicon wafer supplier secured last year. The funding was part of a $406 million award announced last December by the former …

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ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey’s foreign minister will travel to Egypt on Saturday for talks with senior officials on Israel’s plan to take control of Gaza City and on the humanitarian situation there, a Turkish Foreign Ministry source said on Friday. Israel’s political-security cabinet approved a plan early on Friday to take control of Gaza City, as …

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By Emily Green, David Ljunggren and Stephen Eisenhammer MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Prime Minister Mark Carney is scrambling to save his country’s relationship with Mexico after it disintegrated late last year when Canadian officials suggested they’d be better off negotiating a trade deal with the Trump administration alone. Carney attempted to break the ice in a …

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