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By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senior Biden administration officials arrived in Azerbaijan on Wednesday amid a humanitarian crisis and an exodus of tens of thousands of people after Azerbaijan took back control of Nagorno-Karabakh in a lightning offensive last week. U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) chief Samantha Power, joined by U.S. State Department …

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By Felix Light KORNIDZOR, Armenia (Reuters) – Father David fears for Nagorno-Karabakh’s ancient Christian heritage following the defeat of the region’s ethnic Armenian breakaway enclave by Azerbaijani forces. The 33-year-old Armenian priest has come to Kornidzor, a village on the border with mainly Muslim Azerbaijan, to provide spiritual support to tens of thousands of his …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Private Travis King, the U.S. soldier who ran into North Korea two months ago, is in U.S. custody after being expelled by North Korea into China, a U.S. official told Reuters on Wednesday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, did not offer further details. (Reporting by Phil Stewart; Editing by …

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By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber GENEVA (Reuters) – The son of Jimmy Lai, a media tycoon jailed in Hong Kong, said on Wednesday it was in the interest of the former British colony to release his father and not let him die in jail. Sebastien Lai, who was in Geneva to take part in a British-organised event …

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By Scott Murdoch, Julie Zhu and Rae Wee HONG KONG (Reuters) -The chairman of China Evergrande Group has been placed under police surveillance, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, raising more doubts about the embattled developer’s future as it grapples with mounting prospects of liquidation. Citing people with knowledge of the matter, the report said Hui …

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By Scott Murdoch SYDNEY (Reuters) – The chairman of China Evergrande Group has been placed under police surveillance, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, raising more doubts about the embattled developer’s future as it also grapples with mounting prospects of liquidation. Evergrande is the world’s most indebted property developer and has been at the centre of …

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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Over the past week 130 world leaders and more than 50 ministers addressed the annual high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, but fewer than 12% of those to stand at the lectern were women. “We have to be courageous enough … to call …

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