BRASILIA/BEIJING (Reuters) -Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Chinese President Xi Jinping have discussed the role of the BRICS group of states and bilateral business over a phone call, according to Lula’s office and Chinese state media said. The leaders spoke for an hour on Monday, agreeing on the role of the G20 …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Dozens of Indian opposition leaders were detained in New Delhi on Monday as they shouted slogans, jumped barricades and marched to the Election Commission in a rare public protest against what they say are electoral malpractices. The credibility of elections has rarely been questioned in recent decades in the world’s most populous …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order extending a pause in sharply higher U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports for another 90 days, a White House official said. A tariff truce between Beijing and Washington had been set to expire on August 12 at 00:01 (04:01 GMT), but the Trump administration had …
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(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order extending the China tariff deadline for another 90 days, CNBC reported on Monday, citing a White House official. (Reporting by Nilutpal Timsina in Bengaluru)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is designating the Pakistani separatist Baloch Liberation Army as a foreign terrorist organization, the U.S. Department of State said on Monday. The BLA is the strongest of a number of insurgent groups long operating in the area bordering Afghanistan and Iran, a mineral-rich region that is home to Beijing’s investment …
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By Lucy Papachristou and Nailia Bagirova TBILISI/BAKU (Reuters) -Armenia and Azerbaijan published the text of a U.S.-brokered peace agreement on Monday, pledging to respect each other’s territorial integrity and formally put an end to nearly four decades of conflict. The deal was struck in Washington last Friday, when Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India on Monday accused its neighbour Pakistan of “sabre rattling” and “irresponsibility” after media reports on remarks about nuclear threats in South Asia made by Pakistan’s army chief while on a visit to the United States. Indian media reports, citing sources, quoted Pakistan’s Field Marshal Asim Munir as saying: “We are a …
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By Joyce Lee and Heejin Kim SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea and Vietnam’s leaders pledged to deepen economic cooperation on Monday as their export-dependent countries try to shore up longstanding supply chains as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs shake up global trade. There was no public discussion of the levies – 15% on South Korean …
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SOPPENG, Indonesia (Reuters) -Scientists have found a series of stone tools on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island they say may be evidence of humans living 1.5 million years ago on islands between Asia and Australia, the earliest known humans in the Wallacea region. Archaeologists from Australia and Indonesia found the small, chipped tools, used to cut little …
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By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) -Nepal will waive climbing fees for nearly 100 peaks in the remote northwestern Himalayas for the next two years to try and lure more mountaineers to the less developed region bordering China, an official said on Monday. The country has opened 491 of its peaks but climbers typically focus on …
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