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By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) – Thousands of asylum-seekers crossing irregularly into Canada via a dirt path between New York State and the province of Quebec are becoming a political flashpoint once again in Canada as the Quebec government says it can no longer accommodate the rising numbers. The movement of asylum-seekers into Canada …

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(Reuters) -Russia’s parliament moved on Wednesday to suspend Moscow’s participation in the New START treaty, as officials lined up to blame the United States and the West for the breakdown of the last remaining nuclear pact between Washington and Moscow. Putin announced the suspension in a major national address on Tuesday, as U.S. President Joe …

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(Reuters) – Russia said on Tuesday that three astronauts left stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) by a leak on their return capsule last year would land back on Earth in a Soyuz MS-23 replacement capsule in September. Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin and U.S. astronaut Francisco Rubio, who had been due …

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By Lewis Jackson (Reuters) – Parts of cyclone-stricken New Zealand could see heavy rains from Thursday as relief and recovery efforts continue and tens of thousands remain without power after Cyclone Gabrielle tore across the country’s North Island last week. The cyclone hit the North Island’s northernmost region on Feb. 12 and tracked down the …

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By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – When COVID-19 hit in 2020, Ghenya Grondin of Waltham, Massachusetts, was a postpartum doula – a person charged with helping young couples navigate the first weeks of their newborn child’s life at home. Grondin, now aged 44, was infected with SARS-CoV-2 in mid-March of that year – before there …

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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin will update Russia’s elite on the war in Ukraine on Tuesday, nearly one year to the day since ordering an invasion that has triggered the biggest confrontation with the West since the depths of the Cold War. Putin will focus on what he casts as the “special …

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By Sarah Wu TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan is bolstering its military ties with the United States and will cooperate even more closely with it and other friendly nations to deal with “authoritarian expansionism”, President Tsai Ing-wen told visiting U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday. The United States, like most countries, has no formal diplomatic ties with Chinese-claimed …

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ANKARA (Reuters) – The United States will support Turkey “for as long as it takes” after its devastating earthquakes, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday, while his Turkish counterpart said there was no need to wait for a disaster to improve ties. Blinken was speaking after his visit on Sunday to the quake …

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