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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Flooding across northern India killed at least five people on Wednesday, officials said, with more thunderstorms expected and local media reporting that 10,000 people have been evacuated from the river banks in capital Delhi.  The monsoon season in India has been particularly intense this year, killing at least 130 people in August …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday invited North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to visit Russia after holding talks in Beijing with him, according to video published by the Kremlin. “See you soon,” Kim said through an interpreter, hugging Putin goodbye after talks that lasted two-and-a-half hours. “We are waiting for you, come …

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By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Kitiphong Thaichareon BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thai politics were in chaos on Wednesday as the ruling Pheu Thai party said it had sought royal approval to dissolve the parliament for a new election, moments after the biggest group in the house said it would back another party to form a government. The chief …

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SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a military parade in China on Wednesday to celebrate the formal surrender of Japan in World War Two, marking a rare overseas trip for the reclusive leader. Kim stood side by side with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the parade in …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Vladimir Putin was not conspiring with China’s Xi Jinping and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un against the United States, and suggested that perhaps President Donald Trump was being ironic with his criticism. Trump said on Tuesday he was “very disappointed” with Putin, and suggested in a post …

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(Corrects to say Rodman a basketball player, not baseball, in paragraph 3) SEOUL (Reuters) -Kim Ju Ae, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s teenage daughter, has made her international debut, accompanying her father to Beijing this week, marking her out, according to an analyst, as “the front runner” to become the country’s next leader. The …

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By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan does not commemorate peace with the barrel of a gun, President Lai Ching-te said on Wednesday, delivering veiled criticism of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s military parade in Beijing to mark 80 years since the end of World War Two. Democratically-governed Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own territory, has …

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