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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Myanmar’s military rulers must put an end to the “deplorable” violence inflicted on the population since 2021 and find a “credible path” back to civilian government, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday.  Speaking at a press conference on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur, Guterres said …

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By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Afghanistan and Pakistan officials will meet in Istanbul on Monday for a third day of talks after failing to clinch a lasting peace, three sources familiar with the matter said, as U.S. President Donald Trump repeated an offer to mediate. The South Asian neighbours agreed to a ceasefire in Doha …

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(Reuters) -An Afghan women’s refugee team lost 6-1 to Chad in a FIFA-organized tournament in Morocco on Sunday but for the players the match itself represented a victory after being denied the chance to play the sport they love back home. Women’s sport has been banned in Afghanistan since the Taliban government took over in …

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China’s Innovent Biologics said on Monday its GLP-1 injection led to more weight loss and better control of blood sugar in patients with diabetes than injectable semaglutide, the active ingredient in Novo Nordisk’s diabetes and weight-loss medicines. The late-stage head-to-head trial compared different doses of the two drugs in patients with diabetes and obesity …

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By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) -Two mountaineers, one French and one South Korean, have died in Nepal after separate expeditions to the Ama Dablam mountain in the Himalayas, hiking officials said on Monday. Hugo Lucio Colonia Lazaro, 65, from France, was hit on the head by a falling piece of ice and was evacuated to …

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