By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Vanuatu’s parliament elected Sato Kilman as the nation’s new prime minister on Monday after a court upheld a vote of no-confidence in his predecessor, who had sought closer ties with US allies amid China-US rivalry in the Pacific Islands. Kilman, a former prime minister and leader of the People’s Progressive …
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia said on Sunday it would send additional police to the Solomon Islands to boost security for the Pacific Games in November, keeping them there until June to assist with a general election. The extended Australian police presence comes after the Solomon Islands upgraded ties with China, signing a …
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(Reuters) – Russian authorities on Friday designated Nobel Prize-winning journalist Dmitry Muratov as a “foreign agent,” a move often aimed at critics of Kremlin policies. Russian news agencies quoted the Justice Ministry as saying Muratov, editor of the independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper and a co-laureate of the 2021 Nobel peace prize, was one of several …
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By Harold Isaac PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -Thousands of Haitians prepared to sleep in schools and a theater around the main square of Port-au-Prince on Friday, after fresh attacks by armed gangs pushed already displaced people downtown to seek shelter wherever they could. The Gran Ravine gang, led by Renel Destina, has besieged the densely populated neighborhood …
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GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Guatemala’s President-elect Bernardo Arevalo on Friday called on the public to “unite” behind his government after the suspension of his party by electoral authorities sowed doubts about the transition. “I call for us to unite to defeat the coup forces that intend to keep us submerged in corruption, impunity and poverty,” …
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By Leroy Leo (Reuters) -The viral trend of “Barbie Botox” that has women as young as in their 20s rush for toxin-based procedures to mimic the looks of the movie’s lead actress Margot Robbie may lead to resistance among them and hinder medical use in future, doctors cautioned. The procedure, also known as “Trap Tox”, …
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By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court is expected to rule later this month against attempts by the country’s powerful farm lobby to limit land claims by Indigenous peoples to areas they occupied before 1988. Lawyers and Indigenous rights advocates believe a majority of the 11-member court will vote to reject the date …
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By Katherine Masters NEW YORK (Reuters) – Roughly 27% of tests performed on shoes and garments collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in May showed links to cotton from China’s Xinjiang region, which has been banned because of concerns over forced labor, according to documents obtained by Reuters under the Freedom of Information Act. …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s economic growth is slowing down as policymakers try to fix a property market downturn, with troubles at major developer Country Garden in focus. Concerns are mounting over whether the world’s second-largest economy is coming closer to a crunch point: WHAT IS CAUSING CHINA’S ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN? Unlike consumers in the West, …
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By Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine told critics of the pace of its three-month-old counteroffensive to “shut up” on Thursday, the sharpest signal yet of Kyiv’s frustration at leaks from Western officials who say its forces are advancing too slowly. Since launching a much vaunted counteroffensive using many billions of dollars of Western military equipment, …
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