VILLAGE (Reuters) – The United States joined Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia on Thursday to oppose any attempt by Russia to rewrite history after President Vladimir Putin said the Baltic states had given their consent to its 1940 annexation by the sovietic Union. FILE PHOTO: United States Secretary of State Mike …
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OTTAWA / TORONTO (Reuters) – A Canadian court ruled Wednesday that a bilateral pact that requires asylum seekers trying to enter Canada across the U.S. border to seek refuge in the United States is invalid, saying the arrest of immigrants violates their human rights. FILE PHOTO: The Canada Border Inspection …
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FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Home Secretary Priti Patel speaks to the media near the scene of multiple stabbings in Reading, Britain, June 22, 2020. REUTERS / Peter Nicholls LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s route to citizenship for nearly three million people in Hong Kong will open in January 2021, and applicants won’t …
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RAIPUR JATTAN, India / SINGAPORE (Reuters) – For more than two decades, Indian farmer Ravindra Kajal cultivated rice in the same way as his ancestors: every June he flooded his fields with water before hiring an army of farmers to plant seedlings for rice. FILE PHOTO: Workers work in a …
Read More »If Trump questions the election results, Democrats are ready to fight
(Reuters) – Democrats are trying their best to protect voters to stick to what Joe Biden called his biggest fear: the possibility that President Donald Trump might try to interfere with the November 3 election or refuse to accept his Outcome. FILE PHOTO: A volunteer polling place worker at the …
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