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Armenia’s prime minister visited Moscow and held talks Wednesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid spiraling tensions between the estranged allies. Putin hosted Nikol Pashinyan for talks following a summit of the Eurasian Economic Union, a Moscow-dominated economic alliance. that they both attended earlier in the day. The negotiations came a day after Putin began…

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Hamas informed Arab mediators that it would approve a Qatari-Egyptian cease-fire proposal, Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’s political bureau, said in a statement Monday. While there has been no formal response from Israel, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, an Israel Defense Forces spokesman, said in a briefing later Monday: “We are considering any response and…

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  Donald Trump issues direct threat to Joe Biden, family. — Reuters Former US president Donald Trump has issued a stark warning to the incumbent commander-in-chief of the country Joe Biden as the Republican is enmeshed in his legal woes that are exhausting him financially and physically, according to the interview published by the Time…

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Four law enforcement officers were killed, and four other officers were wounded by a suspect opening fire in a warrant-related gunfight in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Monday afternoon. The shooting began when a U.S. Marshals Task Force attempted to serve a warrant for firearm possession by a convicted felon. During a Monday…

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Mariia Mezentseva is a face of the war in Ukraine. At just 34 years old and a member of Ukraine’s parliament, her formal tasks include looking into ways Ukraine can integrate into the rest of Europe’s institutions. But, what really has gotten her attention are her posts about her hometown, Kharkiv. It has a population…

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Embattled Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has submitted his resignation, clearing the way for a new government to accept the deployment of a U.N.-approved security force and lead this beleaguered Caribbean nation to elections. Henry is to be succeeded by Finance Minister Michel Patrick Boisvert, who has been leading the government since…

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TikTok likely to be banned in US. — AFP/File The US House passed a bill on Saturday afternoon requiring TikTok’s parent business to either sell the app or face domestic prohibition A guideline imposed by the bill requires the China-based company ByteDance to sell TikTok within nine months, with the president having the option to…

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A hack that caused a small Texas town’s water system to overflow in January has been linked to a shadowy Russian hacktivist group, the latest case of a U.S. public utility becoming a target of foreign cyberattacks. The attack was one of three on small towns in the rural Texas Panhandle. Local officials said the…

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