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Ukraine seeks to soften key condition for new IMF loan, Bloomberg News reports
Feb 6 (Reuters) - Ukraine is seeking to soften an unpopular tax bill demanded by the International Monetary Fund as a condition to unlock more than $8 billion under a financing programme, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Former French minister Lang summoned over Epstein links, source says
PARIS, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Pressure rose on Friday on former French culture minister Jack Lang to resign as president of the Arab World Institute over his ties to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, after the foreign ministry summoned him to discuss the matter.
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Norway's security service sees stepped-up Russian espionage in Arctic
OSLO, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Russia is expected to step up spying in Norway this year, focusing increasingly on the country's Arctic mainland and the Svalbard archipelago, the Norwegian domestic security service PST said on Friday, also warning of sabotage risks.
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Grieving parents protest at Swiss handling of autopsies for bar fire victims
PULLY, Switzerland, Feb 6 (Reuters) - As the parents of 17-year-old Trystan Pidoux, who died in the bar fire at the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana, prepared to bury their son, they waited for prosecutors to act on their request for an autopsy.
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Clashes intensify in remote east Congo, challenging US mediation
Feb 6 (Reuters) - Nurses at the general hospital in Fizi, a town ringed by steep highlands in eastern Congo's South Kivu province, hurried the wounded soldier into surgery after he was brought in slumped on the back of a motorbike.
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Exclusive-Scammers' abandoned Cambodia compound exposes brutality and banality of fraud
O'SMACH, Cambodia, Feb 6 (Reuters) - In a Cambodian compound with rooms designed to look like Singapore and Australia police offices, papers were strewn across desks and floors: the detritus of a fraud factory abandoned in haste.
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In Hasina’s hometown in Bangladesh, voters face an unfamiliar ballot
GOPALGANJ, Bangladesh, Feb 6 (Reuters) - For the first time in decades, the image that once defined the hometown of Bangladesh's ousted premier Sheikh Hasina during elections, her Awami League party's "boat" symbol, is absent.
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Pardoned January 6 rioter pleads guilty to threatening US Democratic leader Jeffries
WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - A January 6, 2021, rioter, who was pardoned by President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty to a harassment charge after being accused of threatening to kill U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, prosecutors said on Thursday.
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Indonesia signs security pact with Australia
JAKARTA, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Indonesia and Australia signed a security treaty on Friday that commits them to consult each other if either country is threatened, President Prabowo Subianto said after a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Jakarta.
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US military says it killed two people in strike on suspected drug vessel in Eastern Pacific
Feb 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. military said it killed two people in a strike on a suspected drug vessel in the Eastern Pacific on Thursday.
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Thai PM Anutin's gamble on nationalism to be tested in close election
BANGKOK, Feb 6 (Reuters) - When Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul dissolved parliament on Dec. 12, he did so hoping a surge of nationalism fuelled by last year's deadly border clashes with Cambodia would help him consolidate power in a general election.
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Britain expects Arctic security plans to be discussed by NATO next week
LONDON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - NATO defence ministers will likely discuss measures to bolster the security of Greenland in a meeting next week, British defence minister John Healey said, after U.S. President Donald Trump nearly upended the alliance over his desire to acquire it.
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Ukrainian shelling causes 'serious damage' in Russia's Belgorod, governor says
Feb 6 (Reuters) - Nighttime shelling by Ukraine inflicted "serious damage" in the Russian city of Belgorod, near the border, the region's governor said early on Friday.
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Exclusive-Mexico seeking way to send fuel to Cuba without being hit by US tariffs, sources say
MEXICO CITY, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Mexican officials are evaluating how to send fuel to Cuba to help meet basic needs such as electricity and transportation without triggering reprisals from Washington, which has threatened tariffs against countries supplying fuel to the Caribbean island, four sources familiar with the matter said.
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US steps up aid to Cuba while choking off fuel supply
WASHINGTON/HAVANA, Feb 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. will provide an extra $6 million in humanitarian aid to Cuba, the top State Department aid official said on Thursday, even as Washington has stepped up efforts to block oil supplies to the Caribbean island nation, causing crippling shortages.
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Canada, Britain extend unbeaten runs in Milan-Cortina 2026 mixed doubles curling
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- Canada and Britain both extended their unbeaten runs on Thursday, one day ahead of the official opening of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games.
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Defending champion Su rebounds to survive big air qualification at Milan-Cortina 2026 (updated)
LIVIGNO, Italy, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- Defending champion Su Yiming of China recovered from an early setback to progress to the snowboard men's big air final at the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics here on Thursday.
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Dakar 2026 Youth Olympics enters delivery phase
MILAN, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- Preparations for the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games (YOG) have entered the delivery phase, with venue construction and operational readiness advancing in the Games year, Humphrey Kayange, chair of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission for the YOG Dakar 2026, said here on Thursday.
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1st LD: At least 3 dead, multiple injured after car crashes into grocery store in U.S. Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- At least three people were killed and multiple others injured after a vehicle crashed into a grocery store in the Westwood neighborhood in the U.S. city of Los Angeles on Thursday, according to local authorities.
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Norway police open investigation into ex-prime minister Jagland over Epstein files
OSLO, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Norway's economic crime police unit, Oekokrim, said on Thursday it has opened an investigation into former prime minister and chairman of the Norwegian Nobel committee, Thorbjoern Jagland, on suspicion of aggravated corruption.
