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Six on trial in UK charged with membership of banned PKK
LONDON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Six Kurdish people went on trial in Britain on Friday charged with membership of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a militant group banned in its home country Turkey as well as Britain and elsewhere.
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US in process of seizing Olina tanker in the Caribbean, US official says
WASHINGTON/SINGAPORE, Jan 9 (Reuters) - The U.S. is in the process of seizing the Olina tanker in the Caribbean near Trinidad in the fifth such interdiction of ships in recent weeks as part of Washington's efforts to control Venezuelan oil exports, two U.S. officials said on Friday.
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Widespread power cuts, travel disrupted as Storm Goretti hammers northern Europe
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Meloni urges Europe to talk to Russia, sees no swift return to G8
ROME, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Europe should reopen dialogue with Russia, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Friday, adding that it was far too soon to discuss welcoming Moscow back into the Group of Eight leading nations.
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Women bearing the brunt of Sudan's acute hunger crisis, UN says
GENEVA, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Women are bearing the brunt of the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, with the majority of female-headed households not having enough food to eat, the U.N. said on Friday.
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Munich Security conference head defends inviting German far-right party
BERLIN, Jan 9 (Reuters) - The head of the Munich Security Conference defended a decision to invite the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to this year's meeting in February after repeated U.S accusations that European states and institutions were suppressing free speech.
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Meloni rules out U.S. military move on Greenland, urges strong NATO Arctic presence
ROME, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Friday she did not believe the United States would use military force to seize Greenland, warning that such a move would have grave consequences for NATO.
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Kurdish groups reject Aleppo withdrawal as US pushes to end fighting
ALEPPO, Syria, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Kurdish groups in Aleppo vowed to defend their neighbourhoods from government forces on Friday, rejecting ceasefire terms declared by Damascus that demand Kurdish fighters withdraw from the Syrian city where clashes have raged this week.
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Trump's Venezuela focus frustrates top aides worried about midterm elections
WASHINGTON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's focus on the brazen U.S. capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro is frustrating some White House aides and Republican lawmakers, who want him to address economic and healthcare concerns in an election year, according to three people familiar with the matter.
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Before fatal ICE shooting, Minnesota had become Trump target
Jan 9 (Reuters) - Months before a U.S. immigration agent fatally shot a motorist in Minnesota on Wednesday, President Donald Trump had fixated on the state, repeatedly criticizing its Democratic leaders and the large Somali-American community there.
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Yemen's separatists appear to split, reflecting Saudi-UAE rift
DUBAI, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Yemen's main separatist group appeared split on Friday as some members announced it was disbanding, reflecting a feud between Gulf powers Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates that was blown into the open by a separatist advance last month.
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Russia fires hypersonic missile at target near Ukraine's border with NATO
KYIV, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Russia fired a powerful hypersonic missile overnight at a target in Ukraine near the border with NATO member Poland, in what Kyiv on Friday called a new threat to European security that demanded a global reaction.
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Kurdish councils in Syria's Aleppo reject evacuation call
Jan 9 (Reuters) - Kurdish councils in Syria's Aleppo said on Friday they would not evacuate neighbourhoods under their control as part of a ceasefire deal to end days of fighting between Kurdish forces and Syrian government fighters.
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Moscow says US freed two Russian crew members from seized oil tanker at its request
MOSCOW, Jan 9 (Reuters) - The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday that the United States had released two Russian crew members from a Russian-flagged oil tanker seized on Wednesday in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Iran cut off from world as Supreme Leader warns protesters
DUBAI, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Iran was largely cut off from the outside world on Friday after authorities blacked out the internet to curb expanding protests, with phone calls not reaching the country, flights cancelled and online Iranian news sites only intermittently updating.
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Pope Leo decries 'diplomacy based on force' in speech to Vatican envoys
VATICAN CITY, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Pope Leo decried the use of military force as a means of achieving diplomatic goals, in an unusually sharp annual foreign policy speech on Friday in which he also called for the safeguarding of human rights in Venezuela.
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It is Europe's right to say no if U.S. makes unacceptable proposal, France says
PARIS, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Europe is perfectly within its rights to push back against the United States at a time when it is making unacceptable proposals, France's foreign minister said on Friday.
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Trump cancels second wave of attacks on Venezuela after cooperation
Jan 9 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said he had canceled a second wave of attacks on Venezuela following cooperation from the South American nation.
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South Korea's ex-President Yoon faces potential death sentence request in trial
SEOUL, Jan 9 (Reuters) - South Korea's special prosecutor is expected to make a sentencing request for former president Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of insurrection over his brief imposition of martial law in 2024, as a lower court trial convened on Friday for its final session.
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Iran's Supreme Leader to give speech about protests shortly, state TV says
Jan 9 (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will give a speech in a few minutes on "the terrorist actions" in the country, Iranian state TV reported on Friday, as protests over economic hardships continued nationwide.
