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(Bloomberg) — After two days of talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin pledged even closer ties with Russia’s most powerful backer and hailed Beijing’s proposals for ending its war in Ukraine. Most Read from Bloomberg “Many of the provisions of the peace plan proposed by China are in line with Russian approaches and …

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It was a bit more than six months ago when the G-7 announced a novel plan to try and cap the price of Russian oil worldwide. The idea has faced skepticism, but new data has allowed Biden officials to say with increased certainty that the effort has cut deeply into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bottom …

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Vladimir Putin toasted President Xi Jinping with white wine at a reception – AFP Vladimir Putin has accused Britain of escalating the war in Ukraine after it emerged that the UK will send Kyiv depleted uranium shells. The Russian president was speaking at a joint press conference with Xi Jinpingthe Chinese leader, where he said …

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A Virginia man who assaulted police with a stolen baton and used a flashing strobe light to disorient officers trying to defend the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 was sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in prison. Geoffrey Sills of Mechanicsville, Virginia, was convicted of assault with a dangerous weapon, obstruction of Congress …

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DINWIDDIE, Va. (AP) — A large group of sheriff’s deputies and employees of a Virginia mental hospital pinned patients Irvo Otieno to the ground until he was motionless and limp, then began unsuccessful resuscitation efforts, newly obtained surveillance video shows. The footage, which has no audio, shows various members of the group struggling with a …

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Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin at a meeting on March 20, 2023 Although Xi and Putin touted the strength of Chinese-Russian relations in their meeting on March 20, they offered different interpretations of the scale of future relations in articles they published on March 19, ISW analysts said. Putin published an article in Chinese state …

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