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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Fatalities among children following a soccer stampede in Indonesia at the weekend have climbed to 32, from an earlier count of 17, a government official said on Monday. The ages of the children range from 3 to 17, Nahar, an official at the women’s empowerment and child protection ministry told Reuters (Reporting …

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By Adrian Portugal MANILA (Reuters) – Pomeranians Michi and Mochi were among 15 four-legged couples that tied the knot at a pet wedding ceremony in the Philippines on Sunday that was held along with a special blessing of pets to mark World Animal Day. Owners Ianne De Guia and Bryan Largo, who joined hundreds of …

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By Ananda Teresia JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s fifth-largest political party NasDem on Monday announced that it is backing outgoing Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan as its candidate for the 2024 presidential election. Anies has consistently ranked among the top three possible contenders to lead the world’s third-largest democracy, according to opinion polls, alongside Central Java Governor …

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(Reuters) – Azerbaijan’s foreign ministry said late on Sunday that it proposed bringing forward scheduled talks with Armenia to October from November to address tensions on their border. On Sunday, the foreign ministers from Azerbaijan and Armenia met in Geneva, after the worst fighting between the two ex-Soviet countries since 2020 killed more than 200 …

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By Victor Borges BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil’s electoral authorities began counting votes on Sunday in the first round of the country’s most polarized election in decades, with leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva favored to beat right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. With only 0.2% of electronic voting machines counted, Lula and Bolsonaro both had about 44% of …

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By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) -The Australian government on Sunday levelled its harshest criticism yet against Optus, the second-biggest telecoms company, for a cybersecurity breach that affected the equivalent of 40% of the country’s population. The government blamed Optus, owned by Singapore Telecommunications, for the breach, which affected 10 million accounts, urging the company to …

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