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Ukraine rebuked French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday for saying it was important not to humiliate Russia, a position Ukrainian foreign minister Dmitro Kuleba said can only humiliate France .Macron has sought to maintain a dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin since Moscows invasion of Ukraine in February. His stance has been repeatedly criticised by some eastern and Baltic partners in Europe, as they see it as undermining efforts to push Putin to the negotiating table. We must not humiliate Russia so that the day when the fighting stops we can build an exit ramp through diplomatic means, Macron said in an inter stanley cup view with regional newspapers published on Saturday. I am convinced that it is Frances role to be a mediating power. Kuleba responded on twitter: Calls to avoid humiliation of Russia can only humiliate France and every other country that would call for it. Because it is Russi stanley cup a that humiliates itself. We all better focus on how to put Russia in its place. This will bring peace and save lives. Macron has spoken with Putin regularly since the invasion as part of efforts to achieve a ceasefire and begin a credible negotiation between Kyiv and Moscow, although he has had no tangible success to show for it. I think, and I told him Putin , stanley fr that he is making a historic and fundamental mistake for his people, for himself and for history, Macron said.Asked about the mediation offer on national television, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak s Przx Al Targett
WASHINGTON 鈥?Starting next year, the check will no longer be in the mail for millions of people who receive Social Security and other government benefits.The federal government, which issues 73 million payments a month, is phasing out paper checks for all benefit programs, requiring people to get payments electronically, either through direct deposit or a debit card for those without a bank account.The changes will affect people who get Social Security, veterans be stanley cups nefits, railroad pen stanley termohrnek sions and federal disability payments. Tax refunds are exempt, but the Internal Revenue Service encourages taxpayers to get refunds electronically by processing those refunds faster than paper checks.About 90 percent of people who receive federal benefits already get their payments electronically, the Treasury Department says. New beneficiaries were required to get payments electronica stanley cup lly starting last year, and with a few exceptions, the rest will have to make the switch by March 2013.Walt Henderson, director of the Treasury Departments electronic funds transfer division, said electronic payments are safer and more efficient than paper checks; in 2010, more than 540,000 federal benefit checks were reported lost or stolen. The switch will save the government about $120 million a year. Social Security will save $1 billion over the next decade, according to the Treasury Department.Women more likely to mistake gas pedal for brakes, report saysLOS ANGELES 鈥?Women are more likely than men to mistake t |
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