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BEIJING (Reuters) – Hundreds of millions of Chinese criss-cross the country during the Lunar New Year holidays each year to reunite with families back in their hometowns or for sight-seeing during an extended festive period, making it the world’s largest annual human migration. The Lunar New Year travel rush, known as Chunyun in Chinese, is …

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GENEVA (Reuters) – United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk arrived in Syria’s capital, Damascus, on Tuesday for the first ever visit of the global body’s rights chief to the country. Turk, an Austrian lawyer, will visit Syria and Lebanon from Jan. 14-16 and meet with officials, civil society groups, diplomats and U.N. …

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GENEVA (Reuters) – More than a million people, over half of them children, are now displaced within Haiti where gang violence continues unabated despite the start of a United Nations-backed security mission last year, U.N. data showed on Tuesday. The tally of 1.04 million displaced people released by the International Organization for Migration represents a …

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By Pratima Desai LONDON (Reuters) – Although aluminium prices for U.S. consumers have risen since Donald Trump’s election win, the rise has been muted, signalling the industry is not expecting the President-elect to carry out his threat to impose hefty tariffs on Canadian imports. Prices of primary aluminium in the United States, a net importer …

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By Alasdair Pal and Jill Gralow SYDNEY (Reuters) – The Australian head of the world’s largest volunteer firefighting force said on Tuesday a refusal by social media firms to give emergency services free access to its data was hindering responders globally, as wildfires continued to rip through Los Angeles. Rob Rogers, Commissioner of the New …

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By Jasper Ward (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday he is going to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin “very quickly” after he takes office next week. He did not provide a timeline for the meeting, which would be the first between the leaders of the two countries since Russia’s war with Ukraine …

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