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China becomes new growth pole in global education market: report
China has become a new growth pole in the global education market, a think tank report said Saturday. The report, titled “Study in China: Contributing to the Building of a Community with a Shared Future for Humanity,” was released by Xinhua Institute, the think tank arm of China’s Xinhua News Agency. The dominance of traditional powers in international education is…
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Russia is facing a spring of discontent – and Putin is responding the only way he knows how
Four years after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia is facing a spring of discontent. Rolling digital blackouts in Russian cities have touched a nerve with ordinary citizens and public pushback against Russian President Vladimir Putin is emerging. Russia has weathered wartime economic pain while its security services keep protests in check. And the conflict in the Middle East has…
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Iran’s Araqchi discusses efforts to end war and Hormuz security with Oman
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi held talks in Oman on Sunday and discussed security in the Strait of Hormuz and broader Gulf waters and diplomatic efforts to end the Iran-U.S. conflict, according to an Iranian foreign ministry statement. In talks in Muscat with Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq al-Said, Araqchi said the U.S. military presence in the Middle East was…
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Mali defense minister reportedly killed in al-Qaida-linked attack near Bamako
Mali Defense Minister Sadio Camara was killed in an attack on his residence at the Kati military base outside Bamako, France’s RFI radio reported Sunday, citing an assault by the al-Qaida-linked group. Jeune Afrique also reported that Camara was killed in the Saturday attack near the capital, citing security sources. No Malian official source has confirmed the report. Coordinated attacks…
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US agrees Venezuelan government can pay Maduro’s legal fees, ending weekslong standoff
The US has agreed to allow the Venezuelan government to fund the defense of ousted President Nicolás Maduro, ending a legal standoff that has clouded the case for weeks. Federal prosecutors and attorneys for the Maduros informed the judge overseeing the case in a joint letter filed late Friday night that the Treasury Department agreed to amend a license allowing…
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Trump safe after shooting at White House correspondents’ dinner, suspect in custody
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were rushed out of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington by Secret Service agents on Saturday night after a man opened fire on security personnel nearby. The man fired a shotgun at a Secret Service agent at a checkpoint in the Washington Hilton hotel before being tackled and arrested. Trump…
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Orbán steps down from Hungarian parliament after landslide defeat
Hungary’s outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said he will not take up his seat in parliament after his party was defeated in a landslide that ended his 16-year rule. “I am now needed not in parliament, but in the reorganisation of the patriotic movement,” he said in a video statement released on social media on Saturday evening. Despite his…
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Zelenskiy seeks to develop security co-operation after Saudi visit
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday visited Saudi Arabia for the second time in a month, as Kyiv seeks to bolster security co-operation and advertise its battle-tested technology in the Middle East amid the Iran war. Zelenskiy said he discussed defence, energy and food security co-operation during a “very productive” meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as the sides…
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Gunfire and blasts rock Mali as attackers hit capital and other cities, residents say
Residents in cities across Mali reported gunfire and blasts on Saturday morning, suggesting a possible coordinated attack by armed groups. BAMAKO, Mali — Gunmen attacked several locations in Mali’s capital and other cities early Saturday in a possible coordinated assault, residents and authorities said. Mali’s army said in a statement that “unidentified armed terrorist groups targeted certain locations and barracks…
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Russia’s Lavrov says US discarding international conventions, pursuing its own interests
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the United States of abandoning internationally recognised diplomatic conventions in pursuit of its own interests, particularly in dominating energy markets, in an interview broadcast on Friday. Lavrov, interviewed by Russian state television, said Washington, in its dealings with Latin America and the Middle East, was “taking us back to a world where nothing existed”…
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