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[ad_1] WASHINGTON: U.S. and European officials are finalizing an extensive package of sanctions if Russia invades Ukraine that targets major Russian banks, but does not include banning Russia from the SWIFT financial system, according to U.S. and European officials. The sanctions on the table also include export controls on components produced by Russia for the […]

[ad_1] CHICAGO:A variety of U.S.-based groups are organizing convoys of trucks and other vehicles for this weekend and early next month, emulating the protests against COVID-19 mandates that have roiled Canada https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-protests-enter-third-week-sophisticated-demonstrators-dig-2022-02-11 and disrupted North American supply lines. An organization dubbed “Convoy to Save America” said on its website that two separate vehicle convoys will

[ad_1] WINDSOR, Ontario/OTTAWA/WASHINGTON: Canada’s Ontario province declared a state of emergency on Friday and threatened to fine and jail protesters who have been blocking a key U.S. trade corridor for four days, damaging auto production and drawing calls for action from the White House. Truckers angered by coronavirus mandates began occupying Canada’s capital of Ottawa

[ad_1] India and Australia have “respected and accommodated” sensitivities for certain areas and are likely to sign an interim trade agreement in March to promote bilateral trade, Union minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday. Australian trade minister Dan Tehan is visiting the country for talks on an interim or early harvest agreement that would pave

[ad_1] NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warned Friday of the “real risk for a new armed conflict in Europe” as both the alliance and Russia increase their military presence around Ukraine. Moscow has around 100,000 troops stationed close to Ukraine’s frontier and Western leaders were preparing for telephone consultations amid fears of an invasion. A total

[ad_1] Russia on Friday said French President Emmanuel Macron was made to sit at an enormously long table for his talks with Vladimir Putin because he refused to take a Kremlin-performed Covid test. The leaders sat at opposite ends of an unusually long table in the Kremlin on Monday, when Macron came to Moscow with

[ad_1] President Joe Biden is expected to issue an executive order on Friday to move some $7 billion of the Afghan central banks’ assets frozen in the US banking system to fund humanitarian relief in Afghanistan and compensate victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks, according to a US official familiar with the decision. The

[ad_1] Flights to Hong Kong are down 90 per cent and hardly any are allowed to transit as the financial hub isolates itself from the world in the hope it can contain a coronavirus outbreak (File photo/Reuters) The other countries are Australia, Canada, France, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines. Reuters Last Updated:February 11, 2022, 18:54