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BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s President Xi Jinping spoke by phone with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, discussing a wide range of subjects including supporting follow-up talks between Saudi Arabia and Iran, state media CCTV reported on Tuesday. Xi recently helped broker a surprise deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia, Middle East rivals, earlier …

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By Charlotte Greenfield and Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL (Reuters) – Sofia logs in to class on a laptop in Kabul for an online English course run by one of a growing number of educational institutes trying to reach Afghanistan’s girls and women digitally in their homes. But when the teacher calls on Sofia to read …

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By Humeyra Pamuk and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – World leaders will gather virtually this week for the second U.S.-organized Summit for Democracy, an event critics say illustrates the halting progress the Biden administration has made in advancing human rights and democracy as a focus of its foreign policy. Starting Wednesday, the event involves 120 …

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BEIJING (Reuters) -China will maintain a certain level of economic expansion as it speeds up a transition towards higher quality growth, Chinese state media quoted Premier Li Qiang as saying on Monday.Global economic development was in a complex period and countries should build consensus and strengthen cooperation, Li was quoted as saying during a meeting …

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(Reuters) – Myanmar’s military ruler on Monday urged his foreign critics to get behind his junta’s planned return to democracy, instead of siding with a resistance movement he called “terrorists” bent on destroying the country. Addressing an annual armed forces day parade, Min Aung Hlaing, whose February 2021 coup plunged Myanmar into chaos, said international …

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By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Miho Uranaka TOKYO (Reuters) -A group of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmakers plans to compile a proposal next month urging the government to ban social networking services such as TikTok if they are used for disinformation campaigns, an LDP lawmaker said on Monday. Many U.S. lawmakers are calling on …

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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s May election is expected to be a tight race, as the main opposition party dominates latest opinion polls but lags the ruling coalition parties’ combined support. The May 14 general election will be another fierce battle between parties aligned with the military-backed establishment, led by Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, 69, and …

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