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Will halt gas pipeline if Russia wages war: US President Joe Biden

The $11.6-billion Nord Stream 2 can carry 151 million cubic metres of gas a day

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US President Joe Biden said the controversial Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline between Russia and Germany would be stopped if President Vladimir Putin orders an invasion of Ukraine.

“We will bring an end to it,” Biden said at a joint news conference at the White House on Monday with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a short answer to a question about whether he had received assurances from Scholz. “The notion that Nord Stream 2 is going to go forward with an invasion by the Russians — that’s not going to happen.”

The $11-billion gas pipeline across the Baltic Sea, owned by

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