Rivalries on show as Southeast Asia hosts annual security talks
By Kate Lamb and Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) -Foreign ministers of two dozen countries met in Indonesia on Friday with
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DeSantis campaign urges patience for breakout moment with eye toward first debate
Facing a long summer of running from behind former President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is for now resisting calls to dramatically change course in his presidential campaign, instead targeting the first debate in late August as his opportunity to alter the trajectory of the race.
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Monday is the last chance to claim your 2019 tax refund
If you forgot to file your taxes during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, you have until Monday to do so. The 2019 return must be filed on paper, rather than electronically, and be postmarked by July 17.
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France celebrates Bastille Day with pomp, a tribute to India and extra police to prevent new unrest
France is celebrating its national holiday Friday with whizzing warplanes and a grand Bastille Day parade in Paris
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Russia's Duma votes for law to ban gender reassignment surgery, in further crackdown on LGBTQ rights
The Russian State Duma, or lower house of parliament, has voted in favor of a new law banning nearly all medical help for transgender people including gender reassignment surgery, in a raft of new anti-LGBTQ laws in Russia.
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Southeast Asian nations renew alarm over Myanmar violence. But diplomats can't settle on a solution
Southeast Asian foreign ministers have renewed their alarm over and condemnation of the deadly air strikes and artillery shelling in Myanmar
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US Secretary of State Blinken urges stability in Indo-Pacific
JAKARTA United States' Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday called for stability in the Indo-Pacific region and
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Putin says Russian mercenary group has no legal basis so 'doesn't exist'
Russian President Vladimir Putin is claiming that the Wagner private military company “simply doesn't exist” as a legal entity
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US military chief praises Japan's defense funding boost as a buttress against China and North Korea
The highest-ranking U.S. military officer is praising Japan's moves to double its defense spending over the next five years, citing rising threats from North Korea and China
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Russia's Putin snubs Prigozhin, Biden quips about poison
By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin offered Wagner mercenaries the opportunity to keep fighting at a meeting
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For a group of Ukrainian women, painting is a form of therapy to help them cope with loss
For some Ukrainian women, painting has become a form of therapy to help them cope with the loss of their partners who died in the war
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Striking actors to begin picketing alongside writers in fight over the future of Hollywood
Striking screen actors will begin picketing alongside writers in New York and Los Angeles in what has become the biggest Hollywood labor fight in decades
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