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By Simon Lewis and Ingrid Melander BRUSSELS (Reuters) -NATO on Friday rejected Ukrainian calls to help it protect its skies from Russian missiles and warplanes, wary of being dragged into Moscow’s war on its neighbour, but Europe promised more sanctions to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy appealed to NATO to set …

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By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) -The United States should formally recognise Taiwan as a country, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday during a speech in Taipei, drawing a stern rebuke from China for his “babbling nonsense”. “The United States government should immediately take necessary and long overdue steps to do the right …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO will defend all its allies and territory against a Russian attack, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday, as he arrived for a meeting of the alliance’s foreign ministers in Brussels. “Ours is a defensive alliance. We seek no conflict. But if conflict comes to us we are ready …

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By Hyonhee Shin and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s main nuclear facility is in full swing, a new report said on Friday, the latest evidence to highlight the challenges facing whoever wins next week’s presidential election in South Korea. With denuclearisation talks stalled, North Korea conducted a record number of missile launches in …

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By Francois Murphy and Parisa Hafezi VIENNA (Reuters) – Talks on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal appeared to near a climax with talk of an imminent ministerial meeting as a U.N. report on Thursday showed Iran is most of the way to amassing enough enriched uranium for one bomb if purified further. “We are …

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By Hyunjoo Jin SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – SpaceX chief Elon Musk warned there was a high chance the company’s Starlink satellite broadband service could be “targeted” in Ukraine, which has been hit by Russian invasion. The warning came days after an internet security researcher warned that devices receiving satellite communications could become “beacons” that Russia …

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By Tassilo Hummel, Alasdair Pal and Steve Holland PARIS (Reuters) – French authorities seized four cargo vessels and one luxury yacht linked to oligarchs as the United States and other governments ramped up sanctions on Russia’s super-rich on Thursday over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Customs officials seized the yacht of Rosneft boss Igor Sechin, who …

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By Parisa Hafezi and Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) – The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency will visit Tehran on Saturday, the agency confirmed on Thursday, raising the prospect of progress on one of the last thorny issues blocking a revival of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. The visit by the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s …

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