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BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s new President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping on March 28 on Lula’s first trip of his current term to his country’s largest trading partner, official sources told Reuters. Lula, who visited China twice during his earlier government 2003-2010, will stay in Beijing for four days …

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By Akhtar Soomro and Ariba Shahid KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) -Islamists stormed a police station in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Friday, killing two people in a hail of gunfire and a series of loud explosions before they themselves were killed, officials said. Security forces retook the building after several hours and killed three …

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan on Friday halted the launch of its first new medium-lift rocket in three decades moments before the H3 vehicle was meant to lift off after secondary booster engines strapped its side failed to ignite. During the live-streamed event, the H3’s main engine cut off after the launch countdown had reached zero, …

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By Krishn Kaushik BENGALURU -The United States brought its most advanced fighter jet, the F-35, to India for the first time this week alongside F-16s, Super Hornets and B-1B bombers as Washington looks to woo New Delhi away from its traditional military supplier, Russia. India, desperate to modernise its largely Soviet-era fighter jet fleet to …

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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has “a date in mind” for when parliament will be dissolved, which he said will come before the government’s term ends late next month. He declined to disclose the date in his remarks to reporters late on Thursday, which was the first time Prayuth has said the …

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ROME (Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping will deliver a ‘peace speech’ on the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Italy’s foreign minister said on Friday, citing top diplomat Wang Yi. Wang Yi “told me that Xi will deliver a peace speech on the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine” on Feb. 24, 2022, Minister …

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By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – Defence cooperation between South Korea and Indonesia will expand, diplomats from the two countries said on Friday, after a dispute over funding for a joint fighter jet project was resolved last year. Indonesia had halted payments for its 20% share of development costs for the KFX jet in 2019, …

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