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Putin wins Russia election in landslide with no serious competition

MOSCOW, March 17 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin won a record post-Soviet landslide in Russia's election on Sunday, cementing his already tight grip on power in a victory he said showed Mosco...

Hungary: Orban calls for voter support to 'occupy Brussels'

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban lobbied for public support for his under-fire Fidesz party in European Parliament elections this summer during a speech in Budapest on Friday, saying it was n...

US imposes sanctions on Israeli settlers, two West Bank outposts

WASHINGTON, March 14 (Reuters) - The Biden administration imposed sanctions on two Israeli outposts and three settlers it accused of undermining stability in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, and ap...

US House passes bill to force ByteDance to divest TikTok or face ban

WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill on Wednesday that would give TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the U.S. as...

Biden clinches nomination, bruising presidential rematch with Trump looms

March 12 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden won enough delegates on Tuesday to seal the Democratic Party's nomination, with a face-off against former President Donald Trump looming in what would be t...

South Korea, US talk troop costs amid Trump fears

Seoul and Washington have made early progress in talks on sharing the financial burden of US military units stationed on the Korean Peninsula, with both sides reportedly keen to bring forward the disc...

US election casts shadow over Taiwan relations

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The U.S. election on Nov. 5. could cast a shadow over U.S. support for Taiwan, experts in both Washington and Taipei said. After former U.S. President Donald Trump won ...

Atomic bomb movie 'Oppenheimer' crowned best picture at the Oscars

LOS ANGELES, March 10 (Reuters) - "Oppenheimer," the blockbuster biopic about the race to build the first atomic bomb, claimed seven Academy Awards including the prestigious best picture tro...

US-Taiwan ties to remain stable regardless of Trump or Biden victory: NSB

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan’s National Security Bureau (NSB) submitted a report to the Legislative Yuan indicating it is confident that U.S.-Taiwan relations will remain stable and frien...

Biden says he would sign TikTok crackdown, Trump raises concerns

President Joe Biden said on Friday he would sign legislation that gives China's ByteDance about six months to divest the popular TikTok short video app as his rival Donald Trump raised concerns ab...

Biden takes on Trump and Republicans in fiery State of the Union speech

WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Thursday laid out his case for re-election in a fiery State of the Union speech that accused Donald Trump of threatening democracy, kowtowing to ...

While Macron hints at troops in Ukraine, EU has bigger issues

Emmanuel Macron has set the cat among the pigeons once again. Known for proclivity to provoke debate among EU and NATO allies, the centrist French president raised eyebrows by taking aim at a long-sta...

Nikki Haley ends White House bid, clearing path for a Trump-Biden rematch

CHARLESTON, South Carolina, March 6 (Reuters) - Nikki Haley ended her long-shot challenge to Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Wednesday, ensuring the former president will be the pa...

Fed's Powell still expects rate cuts, but inflation progress "not assured"

WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, avoiding disputes over fiscal policy, energy, housing, Ukraine and other tangled issues, told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday he a...

After Trump meet, Musk says he won't donate to either US presidential candidate

Billionaire Elon Musk, CEO of electric vehicle maker Tesla TSLA.O, said on Wednesday that he will not donate money to either Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump or Democratic President Joe ...