(Reuters) -Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing will travel to China this week to attend regional summits, state media said on Monday, in the embattled top general’s first visit to the influential neighbouring nation since he seized power in a 2021 coup. Since the coup Myanmar has been in chaos, including areas along its border …
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(Reuters) -Reza Valizadeh, an Iranian-American journalist who once worked for a U.S. government-funded broadcaster, is believed to have been detained by Iran for some months, the Associated Press reported on Sunday, citing authorities. The imprisonment of Valizadeh was acknowledged to the Associated Press by the U.S. State Department, the news agency said. Valizadeh previously worked …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday that his government planned to cut student loans for around three million Australians by 20%, wiping off around A$16 billion ($10 billion) in debts. The move builds on May’s budget, which attacked cost of living pressures in Australia and gave debt relief for students, as …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) -An Israeli naval force mounted a “special operation” in the northern Lebanese coastal town of Batroun early on Friday and captured one person, a security source said. Another source confirmed the incident, but did not say who was responsible. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said security forces were investigating the incident. An Israeli …
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NOVI SAD, Serbia (Reuters) -Serbia wound up a rescue operation and opened an investigation on Saturday into a roof collapse at a railway station in the northern city of Novi Sad that killed 14 people and injured three others. The disaster happened on Friday when a length of roofing along the entrance to the station …
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By Daniel Ramos LA PAZ (Reuters) -Bolivian President Luis Arce accused followers of his former mentor-turned-rival, Evo Morales, of being behind an armed takeover of military posts and holding soldiers hostage on Friday, ramping up tensions in the already restive Andean nation. Arce said the groups had forced their way into three military posts outside …
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By Oliver Griffin CALI, Colombia (Reuters) -Indigenous environmental defenders in Ecuador are suffering an increasing number of threats and sometimes deadly attacks amid spiraling violence in the country, activists said during U.N. COP16 nature talks in Colombia this week. Nearly 200 countries are gathered in the city of Cali in an attempt to agree on …
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Petrochemical firm Braskem and 19 people were formally accused by Brazil’s police following an investigation into sinking ground in the city of Maceio related to salt mining activities, according to the police and documents seen by Reuters. Braskem’s mines began extracting rock salt in the 1970s in the northeastern city of Maceio, …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The situation in the northern Gaza Strip is “apocalyptic” as Israel pursues a military offensive against Hamas militants in the area, top United Nations officials warned on Friday. “The entire Palestinian population in North Gaza is at imminent risk of dying from disease, famine and violence,” they said …
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By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) – The Brazilian foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday it was taken by surprise by an “offensive tone” that Venezuelan authorities used against Brazil, the latest development of a diplomatic row between the two leftist-led countries. In the statement, Brazil’s foreign ministry said the choice for “personal attacks …
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