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HANOI, April 8 (Reuters) - U.S.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Vietnam next week, Senator Jeff Merkley told a news conference in Hanoi on Saturday, as part of Washington's efforts to move diplomatic relations with Hanoi on to a higher level this year.
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Several students were then interviewed who confirmed that Mr Headley had been discussing flat earth theory and whether the moon landings were faked but that he had asked for these chats to be 'confidential', a panel heard.
He had initially vowed to stay put in Kyiv despite the constant blaring of air raid sirens and attacks on residential buildings, but decided to leave after hearing reports of Russian soldiers 'raping' Ukrainian women.
Moscow has not concealed a programme under which it has brought thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia from occupied areas, but presents this it as a humanitarian campaign to protect orphans and children abandoned in the conflict zone.
Three children - two boys and a girl - were present at the media briefing in Kyiv.
Save Ukraine said they were returned to Ukraine on a previous rescue mission last month that returned 18 children in total.
KYIV, April 8 (Reuters) - More than 30 children were reunited with their families in Ukraine this week after a long operation to bring them back from Russia, where they had been taken from occupied areas during the war, a humanitarian group said on Saturday.
A grandmother who had been due to reunite with two of her grandchildren died suddenly on the trip and the children had to remain in Russia, Kuleba, Ukraine's former commissioner for children's rights, told a media briefing in Kyiv.
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Then in 2019, there was a disagreement over marking and he submitted a complaint to the external examiner about the school which Mr Headley felt then affected how he was treated afterwards, the hearing was told.
It also found that Mr Headley was 'evasive' at the tribunal about whether he actually believed the earth was flat, instead he 'simply acknowledged' the weight of scientific evidence pointing against that conclusion.
Dismissing his claims, Employment Judge John Crosfill concluded: 'The school was entitled to conclude that its own interests in promoting pluralism and the welfare of its students were a sufficient reason for restricting [Mr Headley's] rights to manifest his religious beliefs and/or express his opinions in public in the manner that he did.'
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The three children said they had been separated from their parents who were pressured by Russian authorities to send their children to Russian summer camps for what was billed as two weeks, from occupied parts of Kherson and Kharkiv regions.
"Now the fifth rescue mission is nearing its completion. It was special regarding the number of children we managed to return and also because of its complexity," said Mykola Kuleba, the founder of the Save Ukraine humanitarian organisation.
Before moving into politics and winning the 2016 election, Trump was something of a regular across sporting sectors -- often involved in some capacity with the WWE, pro golf and the NFL, among others.
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After years of criticizing the protests that Colin Kaepernick started in 2016 to address racism, President Donald Trump is now saying the embattled free agent should get another chance, 'if he deserves it.' Kaepernick has continued training in hopes of making an NFL comeback
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Lvova-Belova told a news conference earlier this week that her commission acted on humanitarian grounds to protect the interests of children in an area where military action was taking place and had not moved anyone against their will or that of their parents or legal guardians, whose consent was always sought unless they were missing.