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By Yurii Kovalenko, Anastasiia Malenko and Vladyslav Smilianets KYIV (Reuters) -Several nights a week, Daria Slavytska packs a yoga mat, blankets and food into a stroller and descends with her two-year-old Emil into the Kyiv subway. While air raid sirens wail above, the 27-year-old tries to snatch a few hours’ sleep safely below ground. For …

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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s top tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, said on Saturday he planned to visit Washington next week to hold further ministerial-level talks with the United States. Tokyo hopes to clinch a deal by an August 1 deadline that will avert President Donald Trump’s tariff of 25% on imports from Japan. “I intend to keep …

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SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s jailed ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol was indicted on additional charges on Saturday as a special prosecutor continues investigating him for his short-lived declaration of martial law in December. The new charges include obstruction of the exercise of others’ rights by abuse of authority, ordering the deletion of records and blocking the …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday that 10 Americans detained in Venezuela have been released. “I want to thank my team at the @StateDep & especially President @nayibbukele for helping secure an agreement for the release of all of our American detainees, plus the release of Venezuelan political prisoners,” Rubio …

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By Luciana Magalhaes and Ricardo Brito BRASILIA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Brazil’s Supreme Court issued search warrants and restraining orders against former President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday, banning him from contacting foreign officials over allegations he courted the interference of U.S. President Donald Trump. Washington responded by hitting Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes and unspecified other allies …

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By Luciana Magalhaes BRASILIA (Reuters) -With dark jeans pulled over an ankle monitor attached just hours earlier, Brazil’s right-wing former President Jair Bolsonaro made clear on Friday that the humiliation of court-ordered restraints would not curb his role in global politics. In a defiant interview with Reuters at his party’s offices, raided at dawn in …

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By David Shepardson and Nichola Groom WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday it is cutting the size of its workforce by at least 23% and closing its scientific research office as part of President Donald Trump’s broad effort to downsize the federal government. In January, the EPA had 16,155 employees, …

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(Reuters) -Ukraine’s top military commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said on Friday his forces were standing firm in defending a key city on the eastern front of the three-year war. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy praised Ukraine’s forces in their defence of Pokrovsk, a logistics hub in eastern Donetsk region that has weathered months of Russian attempts to capture …

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By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Microsoft on Friday said it will stop using China-based engineers to provide technical assistance to the U.S. military after a report in investigative journalism outlet ProPublica sparked questions from a U.S. senator and prompted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to order a two-week review of Pentagon cloud deals. The report …

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