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MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Thursday hinted at higher taxes for wealthy individuals and companies, saying that a fairer distribution of the tax burden was needed as he urged Russian...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland doesn't rule out introducing a ban on agricultural products from Russia, the prime minister said on Thursday during a visit to Warsaw by his counterpart from Latvia, which ha...

N'DJAMENA (Reuters) -Chadian opposition politician Yaya Dillo was killed on Wednesday during an exchange of fire with security forces, prosecutor Oumar Mahamat Kedelaye said in a press conference on T...

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran holds a parliamentary election on Friday seen as a test of the clerical establishment's popularity at a time of growing dissent over an array of political, soci...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranians will vote in a parliamentary election on March 1 seen as a litmus test of the clerical establishment's popularity amid growing discontent over economic, political and social...

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's military said on Thursday it had shot down three more Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers, the latest successes it has reported against Moscow's air force. "After successful comba...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel appropriated on Thursday several tracts of land near a major Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, but a source briefed on the decision told Reuters that there was ...

ANKARA (Reuters) - The United States has sent Turkey draft letters of offer and acceptance regarding its request to buy Block-70 F-16 fighter jets and modernisation kits, Turkey's defence ministry spo...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed more generous tax allowances for families with children and additional funds for regions with low birth rates on Thursday, ahead of an elec...

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka has decided to stop issuing free long-term visas to Russian and Ukrainian nationals who have lived in the Indian Ocean island nation for the past two...