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By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) -British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak and his Canadian counterpart Chrystia Freeland walked out of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) meeting in Washington to protest the invasion of Ukraine when Russia’s delegate spoke on Thursday, a British finance ministry spokesperson said. Before walking out, Sunak “described (Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s assault on …

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By Pavel Polityuk and Natalia Zinets (Reuters) – The port city of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov, reduced to a wasteland littered with bodies by nearly two months of siege and bombardment that Ukraine says killed tens of thousands of civilians, is a big strategic prize for Russia. President Vladimir Putin on Thursday declared …

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By Timothy Gardner and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As a candidate, Joe Biden made climate change a pillar of his campaign for the White House, promising to decarbonize the U.S. economy, end drilling on public lands, and lead the world in a historic shift away from fossil fuels. But more than a year into …

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PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron and challenger Marine Le Pen will be back on the campaign trail on Thursday after the far-right candidate failed, in a high-stakes TV debate, to deliver the knockout blow she needed ahead of Sunday’s vote. More than 15 million people watched the heated confrontation on Wednesday evening, the …

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By Andrew Hay -New Mexico on Wednesday fined Rust Movie Productions LLC the maximum amount possible and blasted the company for “willful” safety lapses leading to the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins last year during the filming of Western “Rust.” An investigation by the state’s worker safety agency, which fined the company $137,000, found …

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By Devjyot Ghoshal and Uditha Jayasinghe RAMBUKKANA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) -Sri Lanka Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said on Wednesday he expects the police to properly investigate clashes with anti-government protesters that led to the first death in weeks of civil unrest over an economic crisis. Police fired live ammunition to scatter protesters on Tuesday in …

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(Reuters) – Ukrainian officials said they hoped to get thousands of women and children out of the besieged southeastern city of Mariupol as Russia pressed ahead with a new offensive along front lines in eastern Ukraine. FIGHTING * Russia’s military presence on Ukraine’s eastern border continues to build, a British military update said, adding that …

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