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US, China senior officials to hold security talks

WASHINGTON, Nov 06 (AFP): US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defence Secretary Jim Mattis will host their Chinese counterparts on Friday in Washington for a round of high-level diplomatic and security talks, the US State Department announced.The second US-China Diplomatic and Security Dialogue will bring Mattis and Pompeo together...

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Rescue workers search for 17 missing migrants

MADRID, Nov 06 (AP): Spanish rescue workers combed the seas and shores of southern Spain on Tuesday, searching for 17 missing migrants a day after finding the bodies of 17 other migrants who died trying to cross the Mediterranean in boats departing from North Africa.The Spanish Civil Guard said it...

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Macron pleads for European army

PARIS, Nov 06 (BBC): French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that Europeans cannot be protected without a "true, European army", as he marks the centenary of the World War One Armistice.On a visit to the former Western Front in Verdun, he said Russia had shown it could be a threat...

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Fisherman rescues NZ baby from sea miraculously

WELLINGTON, Nov 06 (AFP): A New Zealand baby was plucked from the ocean as he floated past a fisherman in a rescue hailed as "miraculous" by water safety experts, who warned the accident could easily have ended in tragedy.Gus Hutt was preparing for an early morning fish when he saw...

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US networks drop ‘racist’ Trump ad

NEY YORK, Nov 06 (Reuters): NBC, Fox News and Facebook pulled an ad by President Donald Trump's campaign that critics had labeled racist as a bitter election fight for control of the US Congress headed on Monday for an unpredictable finish.The 30-second ad, which was sponsored by Trump's 2020 re-election...

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Morrison denies 2019 double election reports

CANBERRA, Nov 06 (Xinhua): Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison has denied reports that he is preparing to hold two general elections in 2019 in an attempt to hold on to power.Fairfax Media reported on Tuesday that Morrison was entertaining the option of holding an election for the Senate, the upper...

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Russian envoy, Iranian senior official hold talks on Syria

MOSCOW, Nov 06 (TASS): Russian Presidential Envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentyev and Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani held talks in Tehran on Monday, the Tasnim news agency said.According to the news agency, Shamkhani praised cooperation between Tehran, Damascus and Moscow, pointing out that it had become...

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Pak blasphemy lawyer leaves country against his wishes

THE HAGUE, Nov 06 (AFP): The Pakistani lawyer who saved a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy from death row said Monday that the UN and EU made him leave the country "against my wishes" because he was a "prime target."Saif-ul-Malook, who has fled to the Netherlands, said he contacted a...

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Kashmir clash leaves two militants dead

SRINAGAR, Nov 06 (Xinhua): Two militants were killed on Tuesday in a fierce gunfight with Indian troops and police in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said.The gunfight broke out during predawn hours at village Safanagri-Zainpora of Shopian district, about 70 km south of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir."Government...

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