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France heads to the polls as Macron faces his biggest threat yet
A political rally before the first round of the French presidential election. Sylvain Lefevre | Getty Images News | Getty Images French voters are heading to the polls Sunday in an election where the cost of living and the war in Ukraine dominated the political debate. Opinion polls from the week before the first round […]
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Ukraine war is a key test in how the world responds to abuse of power, ex-UK foreign minister says
The Russia-Ukraine war will have “pivotal consequence” in how the world responds to the “growth of impunity,” said David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, a humanitarian aid agency. Miliband, who was Britain’s foreign secretary from 2007 to 2010, said Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s impassioned speech to the U.N. Security Council on […]
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Senate passes ban on Russian oil and gas imports
Rail wagons for oil, fuel and liquefied gas cargo stand in sidings at Yanichkino railway station, close to the Gazprom Neft PJSC Moscow refinery in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, April 27, 2020. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Getty Images WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday passed a bill to ban imports of oil and gas […]
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UN votes to remove Russia from Human Rights Council
Russia’s UN Ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, speaks at a meeting of the UN Security Council on threats to international peace and security, March 18, 2022, in New York. Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty Images WASHINGTON — The United Nations suspended Russia from its seat on the Human Rights Council on Thursday as the world calls […]
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Senate votes to strip Russia of ‘most favored nation’ trade status
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia April 7, 2022. Mikhail Klimentyev | Sputnik | Reuters The Senate voted unanimously on Thursday to revoke Russia’s “most-favored-nation” trade status, an economic downgrade that opens the door to new damaging tariffs on Moscow […]
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EU not expected to fully ban Russian coal imports until August, sources say
A front loader collects a shovel of coal from a pile at the Raspadsky open-pit coal mine, operated by Raspadskaya PJSC, in Mezhdurechensk, Russia, on Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Getty Images The European Union’s proposed ban on coal imports from Russia is not expected to take full effect until August […]
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Putin is preparing an eastern offensive in Ukraine. Here’s how this phase of the war could unfold
Putin has described Russia’s unprovoked onslaught in Ukraine as a “special military operation.” Mikhail Klimentyev | Afp | Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin is overseeing a change in military strategy to the Kremlin’s unprovoked onslaught in Ukraine, repositioning forces in the east of the country in a bid to take control of the Donbas […]
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Ukraine asks NATO for ‘weapons, weapons and weapons’; Shell reveals financial hit of leaving Russia. Follow our live updates
Ukrainianian foreign minister’s request to NATO: ‘Weapons, weapons, and weapons’ Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba met with G7 and NATO members on Thursday in a bid to gather more support for his country’s fight against Russia. “I came here today to discuss three most important things: weapons, weapons, and weapons. Ukraine’s urgent needs, the sustainability […]
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Why a Russia-Ukraine deal may be difficult to reach
It will be difficult to find a diplomatic resolution for the war in Ukraine unless the situation on the ground changes, according to Francis Fukuyama, a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. “Both of the sides have lost so much that the kind of concessions that would be needed to […]
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U.S. charges Russian oligarch with Ukraine-related sanction violations
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announces a federal investigation of the City of Phoenix and the Phoenix Police Department during a news conference at the Department of Justice on August 05, 2021 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Wednesday announced the first known criminal charge against a Russian […]
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