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MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin’s spy chief warned the West on Wednesday that it risked disastrous consequences if the United States and its European allies stoke a direct military confrontation with Russia over Ukraine. Moscow has criticised a decision by Washington to let Ukraine use U.S. missiles to strike …

KAMPALA (Reuters) – A prominent Ugandan opposition politician was kidnapped during a book launch in Kenya over the weekend, transferred to Uganda and is being held at a military jail in Kampala, his wife said on Wednesday. Kizza Besigye has run against Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in four elections and …

CHIGASAKI, Japan (Reuters) – Before global leaders take the problem of plastic pollution into their hands this month, Japanese manicurist Naomi Arimoto is putting it into her fingernails. At the beach near her home south of Tokyo, Arimoto carefully sifts sand for tiny bits of plastic that she can mould …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration plans to target federal regulations championed by President Joe Biden that aim to make automobiles more fuel-efficient and incentivize a shift toward electric vehicles, according to two sources in contact with Trump’s transition team. The move appears aimed at satisfying a Trump …

DUBAI (Reuters) – Sudan’s armed forces chief on Monday criticised factional strife within its ex-ruling party, saying a move to reinstate an ally of deposed autocrat Omar al-Bashir endangered national unity as the army seeks to win a war against paramilitary forces. The National Congress Party has deep ties in …

AVIGNON, France (Reuters) – Gisele Pelicot on Tuesday lambasted the cowardice of the dozens of men accused of abusing her during 10 years of mass rape organised by her husband and told the court hearing the trial France’s patriarchal society must change. Dominique Pelicot, her husband, has admitted in court …

DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus hopes ties with the U.S., the biggest buyer of Bangladeshi clothes, will strengthen despite strong criticism from President-elect Donald Trump on violence against minorities in the Muslim-majority nation. “Foreign policies don’t usually change because of a change in the president,” Yunus told …

RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP): If there was any doubt that Joe Biden is no longer in the picture for many world leaders, his final G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro provided a sure sign. Biden has been making a last pitch for global support on issues from Ukraine and Gaza …

DUBAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. special envoy to Sudan travelled to the African country for the first time on Monday to seek an increase in the flow of aid to millions of people in need and an end to a devastating war. Tom Perriello, who was named Washington’s envoy for …

(Reuters) – A Russian-installed governor in Crimea pledged revenge on Monday against the “terrorists” who killed a high-ranking captain in the Russian navy last week in a hit claimed by Ukrainian security services. Valery Trankovsky, the chief of staff of the 41st brigade of Russia’s missile ships in the Black …