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Russia rounds up thousands of migrants at New Year’s Eve festivities

Russia’s police have detained thousands of migrants across the country in New Year’s Eve raids with scores of them facing deportation, Russian media reported on Monday. About 3,000 migrants were detained in Russia’s second-largest city of St. Petersburg during checks “to prevent crime,” Russia’s RIA state news agency reported. “As it turned out, more than

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US Sends Ukraine 1.1 Million Rounds of Ammunition Seized from Iran

The U.S. military’s Central Command said in a statement on Wednesday that earlier this week it had transferred about 1.1 million rounds for AK-47 machine guns seized from Iran to Ukraine’s armed forces. Allied naval forces seized the munitions in December, according to the statement, from a “stateless dhow” — essentially an unregistered wind-powered vessel

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