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(Reuters) – Ukraine’s eastern salt mining town of Soledar hung in the balance as Russia’s mercenary firm Wagner claimed control, but continued fighting and Kyiv’s assertion earlier that its forces were holding…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Transportation Department said on Tuesday it is forwarding thousands of consumer complaints stemming from Southwest Airlines’ massive December flight cancellations as part of its ongoing investigation. The Transportation…

By Rory Carroll LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The city of Buffalo has faced some dark times this season but having overcome Bills safety Damar Hamlin’s on-field cardiac arrest and deadly winter blizzards,…

By Erica Urech and Steve Gorman MONTECITO, Calif. (Reuters) -The latest in a string of Pacific storms blamed for at least 12 deaths soaked California on Monday, prompting evacuations of some 25,000…

By Pavel Polityuk and Vladyslav Smilianets KYIV/SIVERSK, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russia has stepped up a “powerful assault” led by the Wagner contract militia on Soledar in eastern Ukraine, Kyiv said on Monday, describing…

By Yew Lun Tian and Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) – People joined long queues outside immigration offices in Beijing on Monday, eager to renew their passports after China dropped COVID border controls…

By Christoph Steitz, Stephane Nitschke and Andreas Kranz CASTROP-RAUXEL, Germany (Reuters) -German police have taken into custody a 32-year-old Iranian citizen suspected of having procured deadly poisons cyanide and ricin to commit…

By Fatos Bytyci SHTERPCE, Kosovo (Reuters) -NATO’s mission in Kosovo, KFOR, has declined a Serbian government request to send up to 1,000 police and army personnel to Kosovo after clashes between Serbs…

By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) – The founder of Russia’s most high-profile mercenary group said on Saturday he wanted his forces and the regular Russian army to capture the small city of…

By Herbert Villarraga NEAR KREMINNA, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russian and Ukrainian forces exchanged artillery fire at the front line in Ukraine on Friday, even after Moscow said it had ordered its troops to…

By Sarah Morland MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – “That’s an attack plane, Dad,” said one of David Tellez’s young children as they spotted Mexican military aircraft touching down alongside their Aeromexico passenger plane…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden suggested Vladimir Putin’s struggle in Ukraine after 10 months of war and thousands of lives lost had prompted the Russian president to offer a 36-hour truce,…