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PARIS (Reuters) – France is helping Armenia to improve its air defence capacity with the sale of three radars and an agreement on the future delivery of Mistral anti-air missiles, Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Monday. The move comes weeks after Armenia’s arch regional foe Azerbaijan retook the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in a …

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(Reuters) – Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi is expected to visit Washington this week to prepare for President Xi Jinping’s expected San Francisco summit with Joe Biden, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people briefed on the plans. (Reporting by Anirudh Saligrama in Bengaluru)

By Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan’s top court ruled on Monday that military trials of civilians are unconstitutional, a relief for dozens on trial for ransacking military installations during protests in May after the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan. The government had said it would use military courts to try the suspects, …

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By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) -Estonia has contacted Chinese authorities as part of its investigation into how two Baltic Sea telecom cables were severed, the Estonian foreign ministry said on Monday. Early on Oct. 8, a gas pipeline and a telecoms cable connecting Finland and Estonia under the Baltic Sea were broken, in what Finnish …

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(Reuters) – Azerbaijan said on Monday it had begun a series of joint military exercises with close ally Turkey, the first since Baku retook the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh last month, prompting most of the territory’s ethnic Armenians to flee. Azerbaijan’s defence ministry said in a statement that up to 3,000 military personnel were participating …

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By Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) -China views the situation in Gaza as “very serious” with the risk of large-scale ground conflict growing and because the conflict has begun to spill over in the region, state media quoted the country’s Middle East special envoy as saying. The envoy Zhai Jun, who is visiting the Middle East, …

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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s foreign ministry on Monday said a U.S. statement in which Washington sided with the Philippines regarding a collision between vessels in the South China Sea “disregarded the facts”. China and the Philippines traded accusations on Sunday over the collision in disputed waters of the South China Sea, as Chinese vessels blocked …

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