#BREAKING Putin 'convinced' that 'effective dialogue' with US possible
#UPDATE Russian President Vladimir Putin told US counterpart Joe Biden on Thursday he is "convinced" that "effective dialogue" between Moscow and Washington is possible, hours ahead of telephone talks as tensions rise over Ukraine
#BREAKING Kremlin says wants to resolve US-Russia tensions through 'talks'
#UPDATE US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have emphasised the need for diplomatic solutions ahead of their latest phone call aimed at defusing tensions surrounding the Ukraine conflict u.afp.com/wqtJ
🇷🇺🇺🇸 A selection of events on relations between US President Biden and Russian President Putin in 2021
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Victims of the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and her former partner, the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein, welcomed a jury's decision Wednesday finding Maxwell guilty of child sex trafficking u.afp.com/wcZc
VIDEO: British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty in New York of recruiting and grooming young girls to be sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein.
Maxwell faces spending the rest of her life behind bars after the 12-person jury convicted her on five of the six counts
US prosecutors drop charges against two New York prison guards who were on duty the night Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in his cell in 2019.
The ex-guards who admitted falsifying records that night, completed community service as part of a legal deal
#BREAKING Thousands brave Sudan lockdown to protest coup: AFP
#UPDATE Sudanese security forces fired tear gas Thursday in an attempt to disperse thousands of demonstrators who braved a tight lockdown to protest against an October 25 coup, AFP correspondents reported
#UPDATE Thousands of Sudanese demonstrators joined new protests Thursday against the army's October 25 coup, braving tear gas, the cutting of communication links and a tight lockdown in the capital, AFP correspondents reported u.afp.com/wqtp
#BREAKING Tutu's body carried into cathedral to lie in state: AFP
#UPDATE The body of Archbishop Desmond Tutu is carried into a historic cathedral where he once railed against white rule, to allow South Africans to bid farewell to the anti-apartheid icon
In a simple pine coffin with a small bouquet of carnations on top and with six Anglican priests as pallbearers, the body of Archbishop Desmond Tutu is carried into a historic cathedral where he once railed against white rule u.afp.com/wqCH
#BREAKING US says latest media closure undermines Hong Kong's 'credibility'
#UPDATE US Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemns the latest closure of a pro-democracy media outlet in Hong Kong, saying it undermines the reputation of the Chinese-ruled financial hub u.afp.com/wq9Y
#BREAKING Two charged with sedition after raid on Hong Kong news outlet: police