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EU to unveil measures to ease British goods flow to Northern Ireland
The European Commission will on Wednesday put to Britain a package of measures to ease the transit of goods to Northern Ireland, ...Kremlin says it disagrees with Japan’s sovereignty claim over islands
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Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi will host a special summit of the Group of 20 major economies on Tuesday to discuss Afghanistan, ...Ethiopian army starts ground attack on rebellious Tigray forces
Rebels from Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray said Monday the military had launched ground offensives “on all fronts” including in the northern region of ...Merck seeks first U.S. authorization for COVID-19 tablet
Merck & Co Inc (MRK.N) said on Monday it has applied for U.S. emergency use authorization for its tablet to treat mild-to-moderate patients of ...U.S. says Taliban talks in Doha were ‘candid and professional’
The United States said on Sunday the first face-to-face meeting between senior U.S. and Taliban officials since the hardline group retook power ...Taiwan won’t be forced to bow to China, president says
Taiwan will keep bolstering its defences to ensure nobody can force the island to accept the path China has laid down that ...China’s Xi vows ‘reunification’ with Taiwan, but holds off threatening force
Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed on Saturday to realise peaceful “reunification” with Taiwan, though did not directly mention the use of force ...Former Iranian President Bani-Sadr dies in Paris
Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, who became Iran’s first president after the 1979 Islamic revolution before fleeing into exile in France, died on Saturday aged ...‘You are playing with fire’: EU faces crisis after Polish court ruling
A Polish court ruling challenging the supremacy of EU law plunged the European Union into an existential crisis on Friday and raised ...