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Finnish and Nato flags flutter at the courtyard of the Foreign Ministry, ahead of Finland's accession to NATO, in Helsinki, Finland, April 4, 2023. Lehtikuva/Antti Hamalainen via REUTERS
Finnish and Nato flags flutter at the courtyard of the Foreign Ministry, ahead of Finland’s accession to NATO, in Helsinki, Finland, April 4, 2023. Lehtikuva/Antti Hamalainen via REUTERS

Finland joins NATO in historic shift, Russia threatens ‘counter-measures’

HELSINKI/BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – Finland formally joined NATO yesterday, its flag unfurling outside the military bloc’s Brussels headquarters, in a historic policy shift brought on by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that drew a threat from Moscow of “counter-measures.”

Former President Donald Trump sits at the defense table with his legal team in a Manhattan court, Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in New York. Trump is appearing in court on charges related to falsifying business records in a hush money investigation, the first president ever to be charged with a crime. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool)

Trump pleads not guilty to 34 criminal charges in New York

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump, the former president and front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination, pleaded not guilty in a history-making moment for the United States today to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records after an investigation into hush money paid to a porn star.

U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy

China warns US House Speaker not to meet Taiwan president

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China warned U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy yesterday not to “repeat disastrous past mistakes” and meet Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, saying it would not help regional peace and stability, but only unite the Chinese people behind a common enemy.

Flames emerge from flare stacks at Nahr Bin Umar oil field, north of Basra, Iraq March 9, 2020. (Reuters photo)

OPEC+ announces surprise oil output cuts

DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia and other OPEC+ oil producers on Sunday announced further oil output cuts of around 1.16 million barrels per day, in a surprise move that analysts said would cause an immediate rise in prices and the United States called inadvisable.

Flames emerge from flare stacks at Nahr Bin Umar oil field, north of Basra, Iraq March 9, 2020. (Reuters photo)

Donald Trump set to speak from Florida after arraignment

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump is set to make public remarks in Florida on Tuesday after being arraigned in New York City on an indictment by a grand jury that heard evidence on hush money paid to a porn star before the 2016 election, while his lawyer said on Sunday he anticipates moving to dismiss the charges.

Bomb kills Russian war blogger in St Petersburg café

(Reuters) – Well-known Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed by a bomb blast in a St Petersburg cafe on Sunday in what appeared to be the second assassination on Russian soil of a figure closely associated with the war in Ukraine.

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