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By Andrew Osborn, Mike Collett-White LONDON (Reuters) -Azerbaijan’s foreign minister has rejected a demand from Armenia to provide special security guarantees for some 120,000 ethnic Armenians living in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave ahead of a new round of peace talks. Nagorno-Karabakh, internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan, has been a source of conflict between the two …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said on Thursday he did not think his comment referring to Chinese President Xi Jinping as a dictator had undermined or complicated the U.S. relationship with China, while declining to walk back the sentiment. “The idea of my choosing and avoiding saying what I think is the facts with …

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By Asif Shahzad (Reuters) -Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday briefed International Monetary Fund’s managing director Kristalina Georgieva on the economic outlook of the cash-strapped South Asian nation, hoping for the release of critical stalled funds. The meeting on the sidelines of the Global Financing Summit in Paris came with about a week left …

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By Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) -The temperature in Beijing soared above 40 degrees Celsius on Thursday for the first time since 2014 and broke the record for the hottest day in June, with heatwaves that had seared northern China a week earlier expected to persist through the weekend. A weather station in the city’s southern …

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By Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) -A gas explosion at a barbecue eatery on Wednesday night in China’s northwestern Ningxia region killed 31, according to state-run Xinhua news agency, in one of the country’s deadliest restaurant blasts in recent years. The explosion at the two-storey establishment sparked discussion on Chinese social media about the safety of …

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PARIS (Reuters) – One person is still believed missing in the rubble after a blast ripped through a street near Paris’ historic Latin Quarter, Le Parisien newspaper reported on Thursday, citing the Paris police department. The Paris prosecutor’s office has said it is too early to establish the cause of Wednesday afternoon’s blast, which destroyed …

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