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By Chen Lin (Reuters) -The war in Ukraine and China’s increasingly tense relationship with the United States featured in nearly every session of the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, which ended on Sunday after three days of discussions. Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe, who gave one of the featured speeches on the meeting’s final day, said …

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By Fayaz Bukhari and Subrata Nag Choudhury SRINAGAR/KOLKATA, India (Reuters) -Police in India’s Kashmir arrested a youth for posting a video threatening to behead a former spokesperson of India’s ruling party who had made derogatory remarks about Islam’s religious leader Prophet Mohammad, officials said on Sunday. The video, circulated on YouTube, has been withdrawn by …

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(Reuters) -Iran and Venezuela, oil producers grappling with crippling U.S. sanctions, signed a 20-year cooperation plan in Tehran on Saturday, with the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader saying the allies would continue to resist pressure from Washington. The signing ceremony, carried by Iranian state TV, was overseen by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his Venezuelan counterpart …

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(Reuters) – China has made “impressive progress” in developing new nuclear weapons, but will only use them for self-defence, and never use them first, Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe told delegates at the Shangri-La Dialogue on Sunday. In response to a question about reports last year on construction of more than 100 new nuclear missile …

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By Maya Gebeily and Aziz Taher HOULA, Lebanon (Reuters) – In a remote village in southern Lebanon, Qassem Shreim crouched low to examine his wheat crop. Food costs have soared amid a global wheat crisis and Lebanon’s own economic meltdown, but the builder-turned-farmer feels shielded by his self-sufficiency. Like many families in crisis-plagued Lebanon, Shreim …

Back to the land: Lebanese family turns to farming to survive crises Read More »

By Henriette Chacar MASAFER YATTA, West Bank (Reuters) – Some 1,200 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank region of Masafer Yatta face the risk of forced removal to make way for an army firing zone after a decades-long legal battle that ended last month in Israel’s highest court. The ruling opened the way for one …

Largest Palestinian displacement in decades looms after Israeli court ruling Read More »

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine remains in control of the Azot chemical plant in Sievierodonetsk where hundreds of civilians are sheltering, the region’s governor said on Saturday, after a Russia-backed separatist claimed 300 to 400 Ukrainian fighters were also trapped there. “The information about the blockade of the Azot plant is a lie,” Serhiy Gaidai, governor of …

Ukraine in control of Sievierodonetsk plant sheltering hundreds, governor says Read More »

By Jake Spring ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil (Reuters) – Brazilian investigators are skeptical that remains found in a river could be from a British journalist who went missing in the Amazon rainforest on Sunday, two police officers involved in the case told Reuters. On Friday, federal police had announced finding “organic material” that was “apparently …

Brazil police skeptical of ‘apparently human’ remains found in hunt for reporter -sources Read More »