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MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison accused Beijing of an ‘act of intimidation’ after a Chinese navy vessel directed a laser at an Australian military surveillance aircraft last week. A P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft was illuminated on Thursday while flying over Australia’s northern approaches by a laser from a People’s Liberation Army–Navy …

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By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian police on Sunday are making possibly the final push to clear the capital city of demonstrators who have paralyzed it by parking and camping on the streets for more than three weeks to protest against pandemic restrictions. Police have made 170 arrests and towed 53 vehicles since they …

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By Tom Balmforth and Maria Kiselyova MOSCOW (Reuters) – Pro-Russian separatists said on Saturday they had uncovered a plan by Kyiv to seize territory they control in eastern Ukraine by force, and paraded a man they said was a Ukrainian spy. Authorities in the Ukrainian capital quickly dismissed the alleged plan as a fake and …

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By Lidia Kelly MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia will welcome international tourists on Monday after nearly two years of sealing its borders, relying on high COVID-19 vaccination rates to live with the pandemic as infections decline. “The wait is over,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison told a Sunday briefing at the Melbourne International Airport. Australia’s opening to …

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DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Multiple explosions could be heard late on Saturday and early on Sunday in the centre of the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, a Reuters reporter said. The origin of the explosions was not clear. There was no immediate comment from separatist authorities or from Kyiv. (Reporting by Polina Nikolskaya; …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Two regions in eastern Ukraine where government and separatist forces have been fighting since 2014 were hit by more than 1,400 explosions on Friday, monitors for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said, pointing to a surge in shelling. The two Russian-backed, self-proclaimed republics in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk …

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(Reuters) – Canadian police on Saturday used pepper spray and stun grenades in an attempt to restore normalcy in Ottawa, parts of which have been paralyzed by protesters opposing the government’s pandemic restrictions. Here is a timeline of main events: Nov. 19 – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government announces that all cross-border truck drivers will …

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