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Russia to exit Open Skies treaty: foreign ministry

Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday the country would begin the procedure to withdraw from the Open Skies treaty, a pact that allows unarmed surveillance flights over member countries.The move co

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PM Conte calls for unity as virus-hit Italy faces leadership crisis

02:58 Tensions in Italy's coalition government are almost at breaking point this week, with one former prime minister threatening to derail the current premier Giuseppe Conte's coaliti

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UK competition watchdog to probe Nvidia's Arm takeover

Nvidia, the biggest U.S. chip company by market capitalization, struck a deal with Japan's SoftBank Group in September to buy Arm. /Reuters Britain's competition regulator said on Wednesday it

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Ericsson CEO resists Swedish government's ban on Huawei, ZTE: report

A Huawei outlet in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, December 24, 2020. /CFP Borje Ekholm, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Swedish telecom giant Ericsson, has been lobbying the Swed

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Indian farmers agree to meet government officials over contentious farm laws

Leaders of Indian farmers' unions have agreed to meet ministers on Tuesday, possibly paving the way for a seventh round of talks with the government which has so far fa

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Erdogan says Turkey would like better ties with Israel, Palestinian policy still 'red line'

Turkey would like better ties with Israel but Israeli policy toward the Palestinians remains "unacceptable," President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday.Turkey and Israel,

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Erdogan says Turkey would like better ties with Israel

Turkey would like better ties with Israel but Israeli policy toward the Palestinians remains "unacceptable," President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday.Turkey and Israel, once allies, have had a bitter

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US Forces Reportedly 'Steal' Syrian Crude Oil 'On Daily Basis'

Earlier in the week, reports emerged suggesting that a convoy of US military vehicles had left Syria's oil-rich Hasakah province and crossed the country's border with I

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Fishermen withdraw from Yangtze River

A fishing boat is seen in the Yangtze River. /VCGChina's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs held a press conference on Tuesday to introduce the phased results of

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APD | Biden may change Free and Open Indo-Pacific initiative

By APD writer AliceThere are signs showing that US President-elect Joe Biden would change the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) initiative.Recently there has been a vie

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ICC severs case against Kenyan lawyer accused of witness tampering

FILE PHOTO: The headquarters of the International Criminal Court, ICC, in The Hague, The Netherlands. /Getty Images The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday announced it had severed th

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UK to drop controversial clauses in divorce bill

VCG Image The UK government on Tuesday announced that it will drop the most controversial parts of the Internal Market bill after reaching an "agreement in principle" with the European Union (

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BMW follows Audi to the Formula E exit

BMW will be following Audi out of the electric Formula E series at the end of next year after announcing its departure on Wednesday.In a statement a day after pre-season testing ended in Spain, BMW s

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U.S. military to keep two larger Afghan bases after drawdown to 2,500

The Pentagon has approved drawdown plans in Afghanistan that will still keep two larger bases in the country as officials carry out President Donald Trump’s orders to s

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Trump announces pardon for Flynn, ex security adviser who lied to FBI

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced he has pardoned Michael Flynn, his former national security adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)."It is

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Pompeo Confirms U.S. Withdrawal From Open Skies Treaty

The U.S. has withdrawn from the Open Skies Treaty due to non-compliance by Russia, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said Sunday, making good on a planned move by the o

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Saving the planet, the G20 way

A coal-fired power plant and a BP refinery beside a wind generator in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. /AP Editor's note:Stephen Ndegwa is a Nairobi-based communications expert, lecturer-scholar at the