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BEIJING (Reuters) – Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday said Germany did not want to “decouple” from China but called for progress on structural issues and improving the quality of cooperation. Scholz is on a three-day visit to China, pressing his case for better market access and a level playing field for German companies to compete …

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(Reuters) – Singapore’s prime minister-designate, Lawrence Wong, on Tuesday said the city-state’s incumbent leader Lee Hsien Loong would serve as a senior minister in his cabinet after he takes power on May 15. Wong, the current finance minister, said he would announce a new cabinet line-up a few days before he is sworn in as …

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By Renju Jose and Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian police on Tuesday said a knife attack on an Assyrian church bishop and some followers in Sydney was a terrorist act motivated by suspected religious extremism, as the country reeled from a second stabbing incident in three days. At least four people were wounded in the …

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By Hyunsu Yim PANMUNJOM, South Korea (Reuters) – The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations urged Russia and China on Tuesday to reverse course, and stop rewarding North Korea’s bad behaviour and shielding it from sanctions evading activities over its weapons programs. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield made the remarks during a visit to the Demilitarized Zone, …

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(Reuters) – China’s economy grew 5.3% in the first quarter year-on-year, official data showed on Tuesday, comfortably beating analysts’ expectations, a welcome sign for policymakers as they try to shore up demand and confidence in the face of a protracted property crisis. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected first-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) to expand …

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By Panu Wongcha-um MYAWADDY, Myanmar (Reuters) – Myanmar resistance fighters on Monday burned the flag used by the military government and raised their own banner at a newly captured army base, as a senior rebel commander vowed they would hold the strategic area near the Thai border. The celebrations by fighters linked to the armed …

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By Patrick Wingrove (Reuters) – The World Health Organization issued an alert on Monday warning drugmakers of five contaminated batches of propylene glycol, an ingredient used in medicinal syrups, that appear to have been falsely labelled as manufactured by Dow Chemical units in Asia and Europe. The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) issued three …

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By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber GENEVA (Reuters) – Friba Rezayee, the first woman to represent Afghanistan at the Olympics, has been appalled by the treatment of women since the resurgence of the Taliban and is now campaigning for the country to be kept out of the Paris Games. Rezayee, a judoka who competed at the 2004 Olympics …

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