BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday called on Russia to investigate the suspected poisoning of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny and hold criminals accountable after doctors found evidence of a toxic substance in his body. Navalny, a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, crashed on a plane …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – German doctors say on Monday that medical investigations indicate that Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who is in a Berlin hospital after crashing into a plane in Russia last week, was poisoned. Medical specialists carry Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on a stretcher in an ambulance en …
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WASHINGTON / LONDON (Reuters) – When Donald Trump was elected President of the United States in 2016, almost immediately, and with apparent pleasure, he set out to try to demolish Barack Obama’s carefully inherited foreign policy legacy. FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden accepts the nomination of the …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin believes Belarus’s leader Alexander Lukashenko is likely to remain in power despite protests against him and is content to let him fly, two sources close to the Kremlin said. PHOTO PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko take a break …
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DUBAI / NEW YORK (Reuters) – The fate of a fragile 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers depends on the outcome of the US presidential election in November, not on a planned US bid this week for a return of all UN sanctions on Tehran, several Iranian officials …
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