President Joe Biden issues executive order to reduce gun violence in the U.S.
President Joe Biden is signing an executive order aimed at reducing gun violence in the U.S., which will require background checks on "ghost guns."
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- Reuters
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Russia on Friday asked 10 U.S. diplomats to leave the country in retaliation for Washington's expulsion of the same number of Russian diplomats over alleged malign activity and suggested the U.S. ambassador return home for consultations. The measures, part of a broader retaliatory package, were approved by President Vladimir Putin, as a response to an array of U.S. government sanctions imposed on Moscow a day earlier, including curbs to its sovereign debt market. Though Moscow responded swiftly and with measures designed to hurt U.S. interests and shrink its diplomatic footprint, it left the door open for dialogue and did not kill off the idea, proposed by President Joe Biden, of a Putin-Biden summit.
- The Independent
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- The Independent
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- The Independent
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- The Independent
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