World
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International
7/29/2023 10:17:45 AM
The United States on Friday unveiled a $345 million military aid package for Taiwan designed to quickly bolster the island's ability to deter a Chinese invasion.
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War in Ukraine
7/26/2023 6:27:16 PM
European Union member states agreed Wednesday to toughen sanctions on Belarus for helping Russia's invasion of Ukraine and for Minsk's crackdown on the opposition, officials said.
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World
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International
7/26/2023 6:26:56 PM
France said Wednesday its arms exports hit a record last year, helped by Rafale aircraft sales, in a context of rising global defence spending after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Region
7/25/2023 11:22:12 PM
The second Russia-Africa Summit takes place in St Petersburg on 27-28 July. This comes at a time of a major geopolitical shift, which African leaders may see as offering beneficial opportunities.
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World
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War in Ukraine
7/13/2023 7:47:53 PM
President Joe Biden said he and other NATO leaders showed the world that the military alliance emerged “more united than ever" this week as he on Thursday capped a European trip meant to demonstrate the force of the international coalition against Russia's invasion of Ukraine
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Business
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Energy
7/11/2023 9:45:57 PM
A multi-billion dollar agreement signed with France's TotalEnergies could help resolve Iraq's longstanding electricity crisis, attract international investors and reduce its reliance on gas imports from neighboring Iran, a point of tension with Washington.
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Sports
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World
7/11/2023 4:29:04 PM
Getafe will face champions Barcelona without supporters at home in the first match of the new La Liga season after being punished for a pitch invasion in 2017.
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World
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War in Ukraine
7/9/2023 2:17:16 PM
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues with no end in sight, NATO's much-celebrated unity faces fresh strains when leaders gather for their annual summit this week in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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World
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Region
7/9/2023 10:21:13 AM
President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed "brave" Ukraine on the 500th day of Russia's invasion on Saturday, as the war's toll mounted with eight deaths reported in Russian rocket fire.
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World
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International
7/9/2023 10:03:16 AM
American president Joe Biden leaves on Sunday for Europe, where he will spend time in three nations tending to alliances that have been tested by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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World
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War in Ukraine
7/7/2023 3:15:38 PM
The European Union took a major step early Friday in approving plans to boost its anemic production of ammunition and missiles within the 27-nation bloc, to both defend itself and quickly help Ukraine in trying to push back the invasion by Russia.
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World
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War in Ukraine
7/6/2023 11:13:01 AM
A missile that hit an apartment block in Ukraine's Lviv killed four people on Thursday, in what its mayor said was the biggest attack on civilian infrastructure in the city since the start of the Russian invasion.
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World
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International
7/4/2023 10:46:59 PM
President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that the Russian people are “united as never before,” seeking to project confidence in the wake of a short-lived revolt while participating in a meeting of an international organization that offered him a sympathetic audience.
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World
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War in Ukraine
7/3/2023 10:21:55 AM
An international office to investigate Russia over its invasion of Ukraine opens on Monday in The Hague, in the first step towards a possible tribunal for Moscow's leadership.
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Sports
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World
6/29/2023 1:12:24 PM
Espanyol said Thursday a two-game stadium closure was a "disproportionate and unjust" punishment after their fans invaded the pitch and chased Barcelona players down the tunnel.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/28/2023 4:57:19 PM
Poland on Wednesday received a first shipment of US-made advanced Abrams tanks, its defence minister said, as the country boosts its military capabilities in light of Russia's war in Ukraine.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/27/2023 7:07:27 PM
Yevgeny Prigozhin, owner of the private army of inmate recruits and other mercenaries that has fought some of the deadliest battles in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is in Belarus after his abortive armed rebellion against the Kremlin, Belarus’s president said Tuesday.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/26/2023 8:19:57 PM
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has made Switzerland, the home of several international organisations, a hub for Russian and Chinese espionage, the Swiss intelligence service said Monday.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/26/2023 12:43:01 PM
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Monday said the weekend mutiny by mercenary troops in Russia showed that Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine was a "mistake".
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/25/2023 1:18:47 PM
From the rise of the former KGB officer to the Kremlin to his invasion of Ukraine and a mutiny by the Wagner rebels who backed him, AFP looks at key moments in Vladimir Putin's rule.
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