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By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) -Anti-war protesters and police clashed outside a defence exhibition in Australia’s second-largest city of Melbourne on Wednesday, with dozens arrested as police used sponge grenades, flash-bang devices and irritant sprays to control parts of the hostile crowd. Police were pelted with rocks, horse manure and bottles filled with liquid as …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain has sanctioned 10 ships in Russia’s “shadow fleet” of vessels which it says use illicit practices to avoid Western embargoes on Russian oil. “Today’s sanctions further undermine Russia’s ability to trade in oil via its shadow fleet,” British foreign minister David Lammy said in a statement on Wednesday. “Alongside our partners, …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian forces have begun a significant counter-offensive against Ukrainian troops who smashed their way into western Russia last month, and have taken some territory back, pro-Moscow war bloggers and a senior Russian commander said. Ukraine on Aug. 6 launched the biggest foreign attack on Russia since World War Two, bursting through the border …

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DUBAI (Reuters) -Reports of Iranian weapons transfers to Russia are “ugly propaganda” to conceal Western military support to Israel, Iran’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday, after Western powers said they would impose new sanctions on Tehran over the issue. “The publication of false and misleading reports about the transfer of Iranian weapons to some countries …

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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A convoy of clearly marked armored U.N. vehicles in Gaza was encircled and held at gunpoint on Monday by Israeli forces seeking to question two of the U.N. staff, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The convoy, on its way to help with a campaign to vaccinate thousands …

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