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By Reuters Staff1 Min ReadMOSCOW( Reuters)-Mali has asked a private Russian military company to help to fight against insurgents, the Interfax news agency reported on Saturday, citing Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov. The Russian government has nothing to do with this cooperation, RIA news agency quoted Lavrov as saying. European Union ties with Mali could be seriously affected if it allows Russian private military contractors to operate in the country, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrel

MOSCOW( Reuters)-Armenia's defence ministry said on Tuesday that 12 of its soldiers had been captured by Azerbaijan, the Interfax news agency quoted it as saying. The Azeri foreign ministry said in a separate statement that it considers Armenia guilty of deliberate escalation of tensions at the two countries' border. Earlier on Tuesday, Armenia asked Russia to help defend its territorial sovereignty against Azerbaijan and said a heavy border clash between Azeri and Armenian forces was underway.(

MOSCOW( Reuters)-Jailed former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been on a hunger strike, was given a blood transfusion late on Friday and is in stable condition, Interfax news agency quoted his personal doctor as saying on Saturday. The pro-Western politician, who declared a hunger strike on Oct.... 1, was arrested after returning to Georgia, having lived abroad for years.He faces up to six years in jail after being convicted in absentia in 2018 of abuse of power and concealing e

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MOSCOW( Reuters)-Uzbekistan has accepted about 400 more refugees from Afghanistan and put them up in temporary accommodation near the Afghan border, the Russian state news agency TASS reported on Saturday, citing an unnamed source familiar with the matter.It is unclear how many Afghans have crossed into the former Soviet republic as Taliban insurgents overran Afghanistan.... The Tashkent government has denied that senior Afghan figures such as ethnic Uzbek leader Abdul Rashid Dustum were among

for almost 11, 000 more, it said.( Reporting by Polina Nikolskaya; editing by Polina Ivanova