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(Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Thursday and discussed the crisis over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, Russian agencies said. The Kremlin confirmed the conversation but gave fewer details, saying the two leaders had talked about the situation along the Azeri-Armenian border. Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognised as part …

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By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union’s two biggest policy-making institutions have banned TikTok from staff phones for cybersecurity reasons, marking growing concerns about the Chinese short video-sharing app and its users’ data. TikTok, which is owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, is under scrutiny from governments and regulators because of concerns that China’s …

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(Reuters) – Belgian court of appeal on Thursday lowered the prison sentence for Vietnamese trafficking gang leader Vo Van Hong over the manslaughter of 39 compatriots who suffocated in an airtight shipping container smuggled into Britain in 2019. The Ghent court of appeal sentenced Vo Van Hong to 10 years in prison, reducing his original …

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KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) -Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves held by the central bank rose by $66 million to $3.258 billion in the week ending Feb. 17, it said on Thursday, while its total liquid foreign reserves stood at $8.726 billion. Pakistan, which is a $350 billion economy, is facing economic turmoil, with a balance of payment …

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BEIJING (Reuters) -A career banker and head of a state-run financial conglomerate, Zhu Hexin, is likely to become governor of China’s central bank after next month’s annual session of parliament, according to people familiar with the matter. The news was first reported on Thursday by the Wall Street Journal, which also said He Lifeng, head …

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By Caleb Davis (Reuters) – China’s top diplomat Wang Yi held talks with President Vladimir Putin and other senior Russian officials in Moscow this week amid speculation that the two sides would discuss a Chinese plan to bring about peace in Ukraine after almost a year of war. Moscow has denied that Wang and Russian …

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By Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s effort to cast itself as a peacemaker on Ukraine reflects an aim to burnish its image rather than a change of stance, Western diplomats and analysts said, as it seeks to establish itself as a leader of a new multipolar world order. A year after Russia invaded its …

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BENGALURU (Reuters) – The Group of Seven (G7) nations on Thursday raised economic support to Ukraine to $39 billion for this year and urged an IMF programme for the country by the end of March, according to a statement released by the bloc’s current president Japan. The decision came after a meeting of the bloc’s …

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