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MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said Russia had a “sufficient stockpile” of cluster bombs and reserved the right to use them if such munitions, the use of which he said he regarded as a crime, were deployed against Russian forces in Ukraine.

TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia and the European Union signed on Sunday a “strategic partnership” deal that includes combatting human traffickers and tightening borders during a sharp increase in boats leaving the North African nation for Europe.

AUCKLAND (Reuters) – New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has said that the Pacific region is becoming more contested, less predictable, and less secure as China becomes more assertive.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India will push its Group of 20 partners at a meeting it is hosting to support its proposal to raise the share of taxes multinational companies pay to countries where they earn “excess profits”, government officials said.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping said China must build a “solid” security barrier around its internet under the supervision of the ruling Communist Party, in his latest call to safeguard online data and information.

(Reuters) – A Moscow court yesterday issued criminal charges against seven people “motivated by national hatred” to kill two prominent Russian journalists in a Ukrainian-backed plot, Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency said.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – South Korea’s Foreign Minister Park Jin on Friday called on China to play a “constructive role” in curbing North Korea’s threats, after Pyongyang launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) this week.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican journalist Nelson Matus was killed yesterday in the coastal resort city of Acapulco in the southwestern state of Guerrero, local media reported.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Azerbaijan said yesteday that Russia and Armenia are not fulfilling the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave ceasefire deal, hours after the European Union urged Azerbaijan and Armenia to refrain from “violence and harsh rhetoric”.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China’s top diplomat Wang Yi told the Indian foreign minister that bilateral ties need to be stabilised, as the two Asian neighbours searched for ways to ease simmering military tensions along their vast border.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Virgin Islands said it wants JPMorgan Chase JPM.N

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – A crash in the price of coca, the chief ingredient in cocaine, is contributing to food insecurity in Colombia and causing displacement, as people leave areas that depend on the illicit crop, according to an internal United Nations presentation seen by Reuters.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Libya’s sovereign wealth fund has filed a criminal complaint against Belgium’s Prince Laurent, accusing him of fraud and extortion linked to his bid to reclaim funds from a failed reforestation project, lawyers said yesterday.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Four Colombian Indigenous children who survived a plane crash in the country’s Amazon region and lived for more than five weeks in the jungle have been released from hospital after a 34-day stay, the government said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Top oilfield services firm SLB SLB.N yesterday said it is halting shipments of products and technology into Russia from all its operations over an expansion of Western sanctions.

BENGALURU,  (Reuters) – India’s space agency launched a rocket yesteday that will attempt to land a spacecraft at the lunar south pole, an unprecedented feat that would advance India’s position as a major space power.

BENGALURU,  (Reuters) – India’s space agency launched a rocket today that will attempt to land a spacecraft at the lunar south pole, an unprecedented feat that would advance India’s position as a major space power.

JAKARTA/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held “candid and constructive” talks with top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi yesterday in Indonesia’s capital, an official said, the latest in a series of interactions Washington says are aimed at managing competition between the rival superpowers.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine has received cluster bombs from the United States, munitions banned in more than 100 countries, but has pledged to only use them to dislodge concentrations of enemy soldiers.

BENGHAZI,  (Reuters) – Production at Libya’s El Feel, Sharara and 108 oilfields was shut yesterday in a protest against the abduction of a former finance minister, a tribal leader told Reuters on Thursday.