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| Ceasefire offers hope to Russian candy factory owned by Ukraine leader |
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 By Elizabeth Piper LIPETSK Russia (Reuters) - Now that their boss, Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko, has finally shaken hands with Russia's Vladimir Putin, the staff running the lone Russian factory in Poroshenko's chocolate empire can finally see better days ahead. Since March, when Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula and pro-Russian rebels rose up in eastern Ukraine, the Lipetsk Confectionary Factory has been raided by armed police, boycotted and accused by Russian politicians of supporting extremism. ...
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| Britain says Libya hostage freed by militants |
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| LONDON (Reuters) - A British man who had been held hostage by militants in Libya has been released, the British Foreign Office said on Sunday. David Bolam was released days after the killing of a British hostage, aid worker Alan Henning, by Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria - the latest in a series of such murders that have been filmed and posted online. "We are glad that David Bolam is safe and well after his ordeal, and that he has been reunited with his family," a Foreign Office spokeswoman said. "We have been supporting his family since he was taken. ... |
| Protesters to lift Hong Kong government blockade, vow to stay in Central |
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 By John Ruwitch and Clare Jim HONG KONG (Reuters) - Fearing a police crackdown, Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters bowed to government pressure and said they would lift a blockade of key government buildings, but student leaders braced for a showdown in the heart of the Asian financial centre. Tens of thousands of protesters have staged sit-ins across Hong Kong over the past week, demanding the city's pro-Beijing leader Leung Chun-ying step down and for the right to vote for a leader of their choice in 2017. ...
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