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Russia rejected the allegations.

This comes after Putin said he would decide by the end of the day whether to recognise two rebel regions of Ukraine as independent.

The Dominican government on Sunday began building a wall that will cover more than half of the 392kilometre (244 miles) border with Haiti, its only land neighbor, to stop irregular migration and the smuggling of goods, weapons and drugs.

The United States on Friday dropped a ban on imports of avocados from the Mexico state of Michoacan and restarted an agricultural inspection program it had halted out of concern for the safety of U.S. workers.

An Atlantic storm battered northwestern European on Friday with record winds of up to 122 miles per hour, killing at least eight people, knocking out power for tens of thousands and shredding the roof of London's O2 arena.

The move comes amid heightened tensions between Russia and the US, fueled by fears that Moscow plans to invade Ukraine.

Canadian rescue officials on Wednesday suspended the search for 11 missing crew members from a Spanish trawler that sank the previous day in rough seas off the coast of Newfoundland, killing at least 10 people.

Oil and gold rose on Wednesday after NATO and the United States said Russia was increasing its troop buildup near Ukraine, while a dovish reading of minutes from the Federal Reserve's meeting last month helped stocks rebound on Wall Street.

University of York monitored 1,052 sampling sites along 258 rivers in 104 countries to quantify the presence of pharmaceutical ingredients in these ecological environments.

U.S. President Joe Biden made an impassioned appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin to step back from war with Ukraine on Tuesday, speaking starkly of the "needless death and destruction" Moscow could cause and international outrage Putin would face.

Poland has alerted the security services and public administration against threats in cyberspace, the Government Centre for Security said on Tuesday, just hours after Ukraine reported its defence ministry and two banks had been hacked.

The first part of a planned contingent of 2,000 U.S. troops and hundreds of vehicles entered the Czech Republic from Germany on Tuesday en route eastwards to Slovakia for NATO's Saber Strike military drills, a Reuters witness said.

The White House deputy press secretary said that India is crucial to Quad and remains an 'engine for regional growth and development'

South Korea's presidential candidates formally began campaigning on Tuesday in what is set to be the tightest race in 20 years between its two main parties, dominated by scandals that have allowed a third challenger to potentially play the role of kingmak...

The World Bank and International Monetary Fund said on Monday they had temporarily relocated some staff from Ukraine amid rising concerns about a potential Russian invasion, but both institutions said their lending and support work in Ukraine was continui...

The United States is relocating its Ukraine embassy operations from the capital Kyiv to the western city of Lviv, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday, citing a "dramatic acceleration in the buildup of Russian forces."