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(Reuters) – The detention of South Sudan’s First Vice President Riek Machar has effectively collapsed the peace deal that ended the 2013-2018 civil war, his party said on Thursday. The U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan called for restraint, saying the country stood on the brink of relapsing into widespread conflict. “This will not only …

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By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) – When a court sentenced Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik to jail last month for defying the order of an international peace envoy, Moscow rushed to his defence, publicly calling the move “unacceptable” and “politically motivated”. Buoyed by the support, Dodik barred the state’s authorities from the Serb region of …

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By Amina Niasse NEW YORK (Reuters) -A Trump administration executive order intended to provide patients with the prices from hospitals and insurers they need to shop around may prove ineffective because of the huge amount of unorganized data it will generate, experts say. President Donald Trump first told hospitals to put prices online in 2019 …

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By Leika Kihara and Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Thursday Tokyo will put “all options on the table” in dealing with Washington’s announcement to impose a 25% tariff on automobile imports. U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday unveiled a 25% tariff on imported cars and light trucks starting …

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KYIV (Reuters) -Russian forces launched a massive drone attack overnight on Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, injuring 21 people and damaging residential buildings and storage facilities, emergency services and officials said on Thursday. Emergency services said on the Telegram messaging app that the attacks triggered four fires in Ukraine’s second largest city, and posted pictures of firefighters …

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By Barbara Erling and Lili Bayer WARSAW/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned the United States and Europe on Wednesday against any temptation to “go it alone” on security, amid increased tensions over the future of the transatlantic alliance and diverging views on Russia. U.S. President Donald Trump this month cast doubt on Washington’s …

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(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that he wanted the United States and Kyiv’s other Western allies to remain strong in countering Russia’s demands and narrative in its three-year war on his country. But Zelenskiy said that pro-Kremlin comments by Washington were weakening U.S. pressure on Russia and bringing peace no closer …

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