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Zelenskyy meets Blinken in Kyiv

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday met with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Kyiv as the senior U.S. official made a surprise visit

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People in Taiwan gather to ask DPP to ban imports of food products from Japan

A group of people in China's Taiwan region gathered on Wednesday to protest against the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities' collusion with the Japanese poli

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U.S. extends tariff exclusions on Chinese categories till 2023 end

The office of the U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai on Wednesday announced a further extension of China Section 301 tariff exclusions on 352 Chinese import and 77

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Brice Oligui Nguema sworn in as Gabon's transitional president

Brice Oligui Nguema, president of the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions (CTRI), was sworn in on Monday as Gabon's "transitional president" in

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Syria, Iran warn against U.S. military buildup along Syrian-Iraqi border

Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad and his Iranian counterpart Hussein Amir-Abdollahian on Wednesday jointly warned the United States against its reported military b

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China ramps up financial support to fuel private sector growth

China's central bank held a meeting on Wednesday to enhance financial support for private enterprises, attended by high-ranking officials from regulatory bodies and rep

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Wagner chief presumed dead in plane crash near Moscow

Wagner Group private military company's leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was presumed dead on Wednesday in a plane crash in the Tver Region near Moscow.According to the list re

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Latvia Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins to resign over coalition rift

Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins is to resign along with his cabinet blaming a breakdown in relations with other members of the multi-party government. Announcin

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Pakistan's president dissolves National Assembly

Pakistani President Arif Alvi has approved Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's advice to dissolve the National Assembly, or the lower house of the parliament, according to

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China's CPI increased MoM in July; PPI decrease narrowed

Data released by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Wednesday showed that both year-on-year Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI) have f

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Pakistan's federal gov't to step down on Aug. 9: prime minister

Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Tuesday that the country's federal government will step down on August 9, following which a caretaker setup will take ch

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Afghan acting FM urges foreign envoys to resume activities in Kabul

The Afghan caretaker government's acting Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, in a meeting with envoys of some countries in Qatar's capital Doha on Wednesday, ur

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Xi stresses need to boost armed forces' modernization in PLA Western Theater Command inspection

Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed the need to speed up efforts to boost the modernization of the armed forces.Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party

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African Union gives 15-day ultimatum to Niger junta to end regime but soldiers seek continuity

The African Union has issued a 15-day ultimatum to the junta in Niger to reinstall the country’s democratically elected government just as the coup leaders met with sen

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Chinese premier urges efforts to implement strategy to upgrade pilot free trade zones

Chinese Premier Li Qiang has urged efforts to implement the strategy of upgrading pilot free trade zones (FTZs) and actively conduct new explorations of high-level open

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Putin will not attend BRICS summit: South African Presidency

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the BRICS summit by mutual agreement, the South African Presidency said on Wednesday.Russia will be represented by its

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Thai court suspends Pita as parliament votes for new PM

Thailand's Constitutional Court ordered a temporary suspension of prime ministerial candidate Pita Limjaroenrat from parliament on Wednesday after accepting a case agai