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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russian aircraft came close to three U.S. Navy planes in the Mediterranean Sea over the weekend, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, at a time of heightened tensions between the two countries over Russia’s military buildup along its border with Ukraine. While such interactions are not rare between the United States and Russia, …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s defence ministry published video on Wednesday that it said showed a column of tanks and military vehicles leaving annexed Crimea across a railway bridge after drills, adding that some troops would also return to their permanent bases. Moscow announced a partial pullback of forces from near Ukraine on Tuesday. The move was …

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By Sunil Kataria UDUPI, India (Reuters) – Senior schools reopened in the Indian state of Karnataka on Wednesday a week after authorities closed them in the face of protests against a ban on female students wearing the hijab Muslim head covering. A court is deliberating the recent ban on school girls wearing the hijab imposed …

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By Jose Torres TAPACHULA, Mexico (Reuters) -A dozen undocumented migrants on Mexico’s southern border sewed their mouths shut on Tuesday in a bid to convince the country’s immigration authority to grant them passage toward the U.S. border. The migrants, mostly Central and South Americans, helped each other seal their lips using needles and plastic threads, …

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(This Feb 15 story has has been refiled to correct year in paragraph five) By Sarah Marsh and Madeline Chambers MOSCOW/BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been accused of weak leadership in the Ukraine crisis and being soft on Russia. Yet on his visit to the Kremlin on Tuesday, he not only stood …

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By Steve Scherer and David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) – Frustration with the failure of Canadian police to lift blockades at the border and in the capital, along with scenes of protesters lounging in hot tubs near Parliament, ultimately drove Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to seek emergency powers, three sources said on Tuesday. Trudeau on Monday …

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By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – A U.S. patient with leukemia has become the first woman and the third person to date to be cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant from a donor who was naturally resistant to the virus that causes AIDS, researchers reported on Tuesday. The case of a middle-aged …

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WELLINGTON (Reuters) – An anti-vaccine mandate protest outside New Zealand’s parliament swelled in numbers on Wednesday, with hundreds of people ignoring a warning from police that their vehicles would be towed away if they did not leave voluntarily. Inspired by truckers’ demonstrations in Canada, protesters have blocked several roads around Wellington’s ‘Beehive’ parliament for nine …

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