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Some African leaders have arrived in Russia for a summit with President Vladimir Putin as the Kremlin seeks more allies amid the fighting in Ukraine ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- Some African leaders arrived in Russia for a summit with President Vladimir Putin as he seeks allies amid the fighting in Ukraine, while the Kremlin accused Western powers of “outrageous” efforts to pressure other African heads of state not to attend. Putin has billed the two-day summit that opens Thursday in St. Pet ersburg as a major event that would help bolster ties with a continent of 1.3 billion people that is increasingly assertive on the global stage. “Today, Africa is asserting itself more and more confidently as one of the poles of the emerging multipolar world,” Putin said in a statement released by the Kremlin. “The forum will provide a further boost to our political and humanitarian partnership for many years to come.” On Wednesday, Putin held one-on-one talks with Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy ...

European Union and Latin American leaders are gathering for a major summit of long-lost relatives BRUSSELS -- Leaders from the European Union and Latin America were gathering for a major summit of long-lost relatives starting on Monday. Whether it will be a joyful meeting of long-lost friends remains to be seen. Their last such encounter was eight years ago. Since then, the COVID-19 pandemic and Brazil's three-year departure from the 33-nation Community of Latin American and Caribbean States — or CELAC — had made the Atlantic Ocean separating the two sides seem wider. “The world has certainly changed during that time," said EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. “So we need our close friends to be at our side in these uncertain times.” Yet, uncertainty still swirled around the two-day summit , too. Division ranging from Russia's war in Ukraine to trade, deforestation and slavery reparations has given extra spice to a meeting that will now already be considered a s...