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BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on April 14 in Beijing, his office said on Friday, rescheduling a visit that was postponed last week after Lula was diagnosed with a mild pneumonia. Lula will leave for China on April 11 and intends to stick to …

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By Ariba Shahid KARACHI (Reuters) -Eleven people were killed in a stampede during the distribution of food aid in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Friday, a health official said, one of several such incidents in recent weeks as the country’s economic crisis bites. The dead included five women and three children, police said, …

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By Michel Rose and John Irish PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron will head to China next week for a rare visit to the rising superpower, in an awkward balancing act between his global statesman ambitions and his struggle to contain embarrassing pension protests at home. The French leader, whose decision to ram much-disputed …

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By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) -Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez encouraged Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday to talk to the Ukrainian leadership and learn first-hand about Kyiv’s peace formula to help bring an end to Russia’s invasion. Sanchez told a news conference in Beijing he had informed Xi, who visited Moscow on March 20-21, …

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By Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s main opposition leader on Friday called for Berlin to involve key allies in negotiations with China as part of a rethink of ties with Beijing that reflected a global “paradigm shift” in security and foreign policy. Speaking in a Reuters interview, the head of the conservative CDU party, …

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MADRID (Reuters) – China cannot be a mediator in the war in Ukraine as it leans too much toward the invader Russia but it could play the role of facilitator to reach a peace deal with Moscow, the European Union’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, said on Friday. “China does not distinguish between aggressor and victim …

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