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By Trevor Hunnicutt, David Brunnstrom and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Images this week of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi holding hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping seemed to confirm what many experts have already concluded – the U.S. has stumbled in its effort to draw India …

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QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) -A bomb blast killed at least 11 people at a public rally in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta late on Tuesday, officials said. The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement released on Wednesday. Government official Hamza Shafaat said the rally was held to commemorate the …

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By Sayed Hassib MAZAR DARA, Afghanistan (Reuters) -Mir Salam Khan mourns the loss of his wife and three children in Afghanistan’s mountainous eastern province of Kunar, hit by an earthquake of magnitude 6 that crumbled thousands of homes. “We buried them with wooden planks and plastic sheets so the soil would not fall directly on …

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(Refiles to correct typo in Slovak prime minister’s name) (Reuters) -Over 25 foreign heads of state or government attended a massive military parade in Beijing on Wednesday, as Chinese President Xi Jinping seeks to cast the country as the custodian of a post-U.S. international order. Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong …

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By Sayed Hassib and Charlotte Greenfield KABUL/MAZAR DARA, Afghanistan (Reuters) -Afghanistan airdropped commandos on Wednesday to pull survivors from the rubble in areas ravaged by earthquakes that have killed more than 1,400 this week, as a U.N. agency warned that food aid for victims would run out soon without urgent funding. Dozens of commando forces …

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By Ryan Woo and Mei Mei Chu BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese President Xi Jinping warned the world was facing a choice between peace or war at a massive military parade in Beijing on Wednesday, flanked by Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in an unprecedented show of force. The event to mark 80 …

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By Greg Torode SINGAPORE (Reuters) -From an upgraded, nuclear-armed missile with near-global reach, to air defence lasers, hypersonic weapons, and sea drones that could crowd its near seas, China sent a broad message of deterrence with its largest ever military parade on Wednesday. Military analysts and diplomats saw China’s leader Xi Jinping using the event …

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By Ju-min Park and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shook hands with the speaker of South Korea’s National Assembly, Woo Won-shik, in Beijing on Wednesday, Woo’s office said. The pair shook hands before the start of a military parade they were attending in China to celebrate the formal surrender …

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