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By Andrew Osborn (Reuters) – Russian foreign policy hawks savoured chaotic scenes at Kabul airport when U.S. forces quit Afghanistan two years ago. Images of fleeing Armenians at Russia’s own peacekeeping base at an airport in Nagorno-Karabakh have been harder for them to watch. Just as Washington’s retreat prompted some Americans to fret over U.S. …

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KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) -Pakistan is striving to get donors to release $10 billion in pledges to help it recover from devastating floods by launching rebuilding projects that hinge on the funding, caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-haq Kakar said on Friday. Donors from around the world stepped up after Pakistan was hammered by floods last year and …

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By Fayaz Bukhari and Rupam Jain SRINAGAR/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A prominent Kashmir separatist leader led Friday prayers at the region’s grand mosque after he was released by Indian authorities from four years under house arrest. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, the chairman of the moderate faction of Kashmir’s main separatist political alliance, was one of several …

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By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The participation of main opposition leader and former Prime Minister Imran Khan in Pakistan’s general election set for January next year remains doubtful. Khan, winner of the last election in 2018, remains in jail after being convicted in a graft case in August despite his three-year sentence being suspended …

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By Paul Sandle and Yadarisa Shabong LONDON -Microsoft’s restructured $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard “opens the door” to the biggest ever gaming deal being cleared, Britain’s antitrust regulator said on Friday. Microsoft announced the deal in early 2022, but it was blocked in April by Britain’s competition regulator, which was concerned the U.S. tech …

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By Ben Blanchard and Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) – Recent Chinese military movements around Taiwan were “abnormal”, the island’s defence minister said on Friday, flagging amphibious exercises in addition to drills Taipei has observed in the province facing the island. Taiwan has reported an increase in such activity during the past week, as dozens of …

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By Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) – Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, took fresh aim at China on Friday over coercing its neighbours, posted pictures of Chinese boats he said were fishing near Japan despite a seafood ban and noted China’s defence minister was still missing. “Economic coercion by China is their most persistent …

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