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MOSCOW -- There is no military solution to the conflict in Libya, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday.

"The absence of a military solution must be recognized by everyone. It is necessary to sit down at the negotiating table and seek universally acceptable agreements," Lavrov said at a press conference.

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WASHINGTON -- The New York Times has criticized the U.S. administration for its policy on mass deportations on the pretext of curbing the spread of COVID-19, describing the move as "a public health hazard."

"That makes it all the more bitterly ironic that the United States, with the largest number of coronavirus cases in the world, is now consciously spreading the pandemic beyond its borders by continuing to deport thousands of immigrants, many infected with the coronavirus, to poor countries ill-equipped to cope with the disease," the newspaper said in an editorial last week.

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LONDON -- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday that the current two-meter social distancing rule will be loosened from July 4 to "one meter plus" in a bid to further ease the country's coronavirus lockdown.

"This vital change enables the next stage of our plan to ease the lockdown," he told MPs at the House of Commons (lower house of parliament).

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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. economy is expected to grow more slowly than people had hoped months ago as the country cannot stop the community spread of COVID-19, a senior U.S. Federal Reserve official said on Monday.

"Some of the better economic data we've been getting has reflected the fact that those places are opening up, but they may not be opening up as safely as they need to," said Eric Rosengren, president of Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, in an interview with Yahoo Finance.

"If the result is that they (officials) have to impose new restrictions later in the year, that actually is going to slow down the economic recovery," he said, noting the economy and the pandemic are "very closely intertwined."

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MOSCOW -- Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Tuesday that the United States made it clear at a meeting held in Vienna that it has not yet decided on whether to extend the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START).

"We did not feel that the Americans are ready to accept our logic in favor of an extension without preconditions," Ryabkov was quoted by RIA Novosti news agency as saying.

He noted that there is little time left for the discussions as the New START, the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty in force between Russia and the United States, expires on Feb. 5, 2021. Enditem

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