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By Kirsty Needham and Yew Lun Tian SYDNEY/Beijing (Reuters) -Australian journalist Cheng Lei, who had been detained in China on national security charges for more than three years, returned home on Wednesday after being released, Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. Cheng, 48, was a business television anchor for Chinese state television when she was …

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BEIJING (Reuters) – Australian journalist Cheng Lei returned home on Wednesday after being detained by Chinese authorities for more than three years on national security charges. Here are some other high-profile cases of foreign nationals detained in China: YANG HENGJUN The Australian writer has been detained in China for more than three years, and in …

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BEIJING (Reuters) – China welcomes the Oct. 12-14 visit to the country by the European Union’s top diplomat Josep Borrell, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Wednesday at a regular press briefing. Spokesperson Wang Wenbin said it “is favourable for the healthy, stable development of ties (and) serves as good preparation for the next stage …

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(Reuters) – Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan played through the pain to secure a win over Sri Lanka with a record World Cup run chase on Tuesday and the batsman said throwing his wicket away due to cramp would have made their daunting task even tougher for the lower order. Rizwan hit an unbeaten 131 and guided …

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By Rozanna Latiff and Danial Azhar KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Malaysia’s parliament on Wednesday passed a law that will require the country’s biggest energy consumers to implement power-saving measures, as it looks to slash its energy consumption and carbon emissions. Malaysia has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 45% across the economy by 2030, …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday said he had made clear to Chinese President Xi Jinping during a Beijing meeting that the United States wanted stability and fairness in bilateral trade. Schumer was part of a visiting U.S. bipartisan congressional delegation that aimed to advance U.S. economic and national security …

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(Reuters) – A top Russian security official, Nikolai Patrushev, met Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Baku, Russian news agencies reported on Tuesday. Patrushev, the secretary of Russia’s Security Council and a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is a former director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and is seen as a main advocate …

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By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepalis lit candles near the prime minister’s office on Tuesday, calling for the return of loved ones from Israel where at least 10 were killed in the attack by Palestinian group Hamas, with others still in hiding in at least one bunker. “Bring back our brothers and sisters now,” one …

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