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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese campaigned in his conservative opponent Peter Dutton’s constituency on the final day before Saturday’s election, with polls favouring the incumbent in a campaign overshadowed by Donald Trump’s volatile diplomacy. Australia is among the few democracies with mandatory voting, and close to 7 million out …

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By Ben Blanchard and Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) – President Lai Ching-te will next week mark for the first time in Taiwan the end of World War Two in Europe and underscore that aggression must be defeated, sources told Reuters, at a time the island is facing increasing military pressure from China. Taiwan has since …

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By Deborah Mary Sophia and Greg Bensinger (Reuters) -Amazon.com on Thursday reported first-quarter cloud revenue growth and forecast operating income below estimates, disappointing investors. Shares of the company fell as much as 5% in after-hours trading before paring losses to about 1%. Amazon Web Services, the company’s cloud unit, recorded a 16.9% increase in quarterly …

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By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The CIA on Thursday rolled out two Chinese-language videos aimed at enticing officials in China to leak secrets to the U.S., the latest public effort by the intelligence agency to ramp up human intelligence gathering on Washington’s strategic rival. The move comes after the CIA in October launched a drive …

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By Timothy Gardner (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said all purchases of Iranian oil or petrochemical products must stop and any country or person buying any from the country would be immediately subject to secondary sanctions. “They will not be allowed to do business with the United States of America in any way, shape, or …

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By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -Global health funding faces historic challenges as donor countries reduce their contributions, the director of the World Health Organization said on Thursday. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration withdrew from the WHO upon taking office in January, saying the U.N. agency had mishandled the COVID pandemic and other international health …

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DUBAI (Reuters) -A fourth round of talks between the United States and Iran, which had been due to take place in Rome on Saturday, has been postponed and a new date will be set “depending on the U.S. approach”, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Thursday. “U.S. sanctions on Iran during the nuclear talks …

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