MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian and U.S. officials will urgently follow up Tuesday’s two-hour call between presidents Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden on Ukraine with discussions on “this complex confrontational situation”, the Kremlin said. It gave no date or details of how the contacts would take place. Agreement to keep talking was the main tangible result …
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By Andrea Shalal, Steve Holland and Andrew Osborn WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Joe Biden warned Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday that the West would impose “strong economic and other measures” on Russia if it invades Ukraine, while Putin demanded guarantees that NATO would not expand farther eastward. The two leaders held two hours of …
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By Rozanna Latiff and Mei Mei Chu KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – A Malaysian court on Wednesday upheld former premier Najib Razak’s conviction on corruption charges over a multi-billion dollar scandal at state fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), dealing a blow to his hopes of a political comeback. Najib was appealing a 12-year prison sentence and …
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By Alain Acco and Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) – French police on Tuesday arrested a suspected member of the hit squad that killed Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi as the man was about to board a flight from Paris to Riyadh, French law enforcement sources said. Khashoggi’s fiancee welcomed the detention of the suspect and said …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany recorded the highest number of deaths from COVID-19 since February on Wednesday as it battles to stop a fourth wave of the pandemic. A total of 69,601 new infections were reported, 2,415 more than the same time a week ago, and another 527 people died – the highest number since Feb. …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian President Joko Widodo promised on Tuesday to bolster evacuation efforts and repair damaged homes after visiting the site of a volcanic eruption on Java that has killed at least 34 people. The 3,676-metre Mt. Semeru volcano erupted on Saturday sending a cloud of ash into the sky and dangerous pyroclastic flows …
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By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) -Peruvian President Pedro Castillo gained breathing room on Tuesday after Congress voted against a motion to impeach him amid protests in capital city Lima both for and against the under-fire leftist leader. Peruvian lawmakers voted 76 against the motion and 46 in favor, short of the threshold required to proceed …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian government officials will not attend the Winter Olympics to be held in Beijing next year, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday, joining the United States with a diplomatic boycott of the event. Morrison said the Chinese government has not yet made any attempts to respond to several issues raised by Australia …
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By John Irish DOHA (Reuters) – Talks on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal are expected to resume on Thursday, France’s foreign minister said, although he added that he feared Iran was playing for time. “The elements… are not very encouraging,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told a French parliament committee, referring to the …
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By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican officials have sped up the transfer of thousands of migrants from southern Mexico to other regions, as northern border states prepare to receive asylum seekers sent back to Mexico from the United States. Dozens of buses full of migrants, mostly from Central America as well as some …
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