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/ The UK targeted seven of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s family members and five Russian financiers with travel bans and asset freezes on Friday, in hope of preventing associates of the Russian government from travelling to the UK, accessing UK-based assets or doing business through British companies. (Free to read)
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Russia’s Caribbean ally, Cuba, is experiencing food and medicine shortages, blackouts, a collapse in tourism, increased petrol and diesel prices, and triple-digit inflation as a result of the war in Ukraine. And some residents worry the worst is yet to come.
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Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has come out against allowing Sweden and Finland to join Nato. The move risks jeopardising Turkey’s efforts to strengthen its ties with the US and Europe in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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