By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Sunday contacts with U.S. President Donald Trump’s team were moving ahead very well but that it was too early to expect instant results due to the level of damage done to relations under Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden. Trump, who says he wants to be remembered …
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By Jeff Mason ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE/MOSCOW (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine may be going OK, but “there’s a point at which you just have to either put up or shut up.” Trump made the comment to reporters a day after he showed …
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By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran and the U.S. said they held “positive” and “constructive” talks in Oman on Saturday and agreed to reconvene next week in a dialogue meant to address Tehran’s escalating nuclear programme, with President Donald Trump threatening military action if there is no deal. “I think we are very close to …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters said on Sunday his country needed the United States as an “active” partner in the Indo-Pacific region, after a trip to Washington last month to bolster ties with the Trump administration. New Zealand and the U.S. have worked together in the Pacific to offset the growing …
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(Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro may undergo a new surgery, which would be his fifth since being stabbed while campaigning in 2018, after feeling strong abdominal pain during an event with supporters in northeastern Brazil, he posted on X on Saturday. Bolsonaro was hospitalized on Friday in the state of Rio Grande do …
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romanian hard-right opposition leader George Simion, the favourite to win a presidential election re-run, said he is the only candidate who could stop a potential withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country. Romania, a European Union and NATO member, will repeat the two-round election on May 4 and 18 after the Constitutional Court made …
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(Reuters) – The Trump administration is drafting an executive order to enable the stockpiling of deep-sea metals to counter China’s dominance in battery minerals and rare earth supply chains, the Financial Times reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter. Under the plans, the stockpile would “create large quantities ready and available on U.S. …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli forces have completed the encirclement of Gaza’s Rafah, the military said on Saturday, part of an announced plan to seize more areas of the enclave, accompanied by large-scale evacuations of the population. The military has issued repeated evacuation warnings to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians across Rafah since it resumed operations …
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By Joyce Lee and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) -Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol returned to his private home on Friday from the official residence after his removal from office, with crowds of supporters turning out to greet his motorcade. The Constitutional Court upheld Yoon’s impeachment last Friday, capping four months of unprecedented constitutional …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Mahmoud Issa GAZA/CAIRO (Reuters) -Hundreds of thousands of Gaza City residents have lost their main source of clean water in the past week after supplies from Israel’s water utility were cut by the Israeli army’s renewed offensive, municipal authorities in the territory said. Many now have to walk, sometimes for miles, …
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