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Turkey-EU ties on better footing, says EU’s top envoy

January 22, 2021

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (left) and High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell speak ahead of a meeting at the EEAS in Brussels on January 21, 2021. (STEPHANIE LECOCQ / POOL / AFP) BRUSSELS - Turkey and the European Union have started...

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COVAX says to provide 1.8b vaccines to poor countries

January 22, 2021

A bottle containing the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is seen at the Al-Abbas Islamic Centre, which has been converted into a temporary vaccination centre in Birmingham, central England on Jan 21, 2021. (DARREN STAPLES / AFP) QUITO / LISBON / LONDON / MADRID / SANTIAGO / PARIS / BRUSSELS / MEXICO...

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N. Ireland says Brexit responsible for food supply problems

January 22, 2021

Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney attends press conference with his German counterpart (unseen) in Berlin, Germany, Dec 11, 2020. (FABRIZIO BENSCH / POOL / AFP) LONDON - Food supply problems in Northern Ireland are due to Brexit because there are now a certain amount of checks on goods going between...

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Trump says farewell at airbase send-off, leaves note for Biden

January 21, 2021

Outgoing US President Donald Trump waves as he boards Marine One at the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2021. President Trump travels to his Mar-a-Lago golf club residence in Palm Beach, Florida, and will not attend the inauguration for President-elect Joe Biden. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP) Donald...

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Europe’s top diplomat ‘to visit Russia despite opposition’

January 21, 2021

European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell speaks during a press conference following an EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on July 13, 2020. (FRANCOIS LENOIR / POOL / AFP) The European Union’s top diplomat is set to announce that he will travel to Moscow...

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Biden to mend US ties with World Health Organization

January 21, 2021

Medical workers observe a moment of silence during a national memorial for COVID-19 victims, in Tucson, Arizona, on Jan 19, 2021. (JOSH GALEMORE / ARIZONA DAILY STAR VIA AP) NEW YORK / WASHINGTON / LONDON / ROME / PARIS / BRUSSELS / MEXICO CITY / RIO DE JANEIRO / BERLIN...

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Intensifying Islamist insurgency in Mozambique drives crisis

January 21, 2021

Displaced women meet on December 11, 2020 at the Centro Agr‡rio de Napala where hundreds of displaced arrived in recent months are sheltered, fleeing attacks by armed insurgents in different areas of the province of Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique. (ALFREDO ZUNIGA / AFP) JOHANNESBURG - More than half-a-million people...

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Biden prepares to take oath of office in capital under lockdown

January 21, 2021

US President-Elect Joe Biden speaks at Major Joseph R "Beau" Biden III National Guard /Reserve Center in New Castle Airport on Jan 19, 2021, in New Castle, Delaware, before departing for Washington, DC, the United States. (PHOTO / BLOOMBERG) Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th US president...

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Biden administration plans to join COVAX vaccine program

January 20, 2021

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US Capitol prepared, tense for inauguration

January 20, 2021

Final preparations are made ahead of the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the US Capitol in Washington, Jan 19, 2021. (CAROLYN KASTER / AP) The turning of the US Capitol into a fortress of fences, concrete barriers and security checkpoints continued on Monday as thousands of National Guard troops and federal...

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Trump govt imposes sanctions against Russia, Venezuela

January 20, 2021

In this Nov 2, 2020, file photo, sunlight shines on the US Capitol building on Capitol Hill in Washington. Congress. (PATRICK SEMANSKY / AP) WASHINGTON/CARACAS/MEXICO CITY - The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed sanctions against Russia and Venezuela on its last full day in office. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo...

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Italy’s Conte survives close Senate vote, vows to forge ahead

January 20, 2021

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte attends a debate ahead of a confidence vote at the Senate on Jan 19, 2021 at Palazzo Madama in Rome. (YARA NARDI / POOL / AFP) ROME - Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte narrowly won a confidence vote in the upper house Senate on Tuesday,...

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Trump ends where he began, fighting release of his tax returns

January 20, 2021

US President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Oct 30, 2020. (CHRIS KLEPONIS/SIPA/BLOOMBERG) US President Donald Trump’s lawyers made a preemptive move to stop congressional Democrats from obtaining his tax returns...