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By Liz Lee and Ethan Wang BEIJING, May 25 (Reuters) – President Xi Jinping hailed China’s “unbreakable” friendship with Pakistan on Monday as he met Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Beijing, seeking to deepen their “all-weather” partnership. Xi welcomed the Pakistani leader as an “old friend” at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People and said …
DALLAS (AP) — After three terms in the U.S. House and two unsuccessful campaigns for the U.S. Senate, Colin Allred said he’s heard plenty about voters’ suspicions that politicians are just trying to make a buck in Washington. “’What about the stock trading in Congress? What about people getting rich in Congress?’” Allred said they …
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cypriot YouTuber and TikToker Fidias Panayiotou, who translated his online popularity into a meteoric political career at home and in Europe, said Monday that he’ll hold onto his European Parliament seat, despite winning one in Cyprus’ House of Representatives. “I’ll stay in the European Parliament because it would be good for …
By Steven Scheer and Maya Gebeily JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, May 25 (Reuters) – Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Monday called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resume bombing Beirut in response to increased explosive drone attacks by Hezbollah on Israeli troops and northern Israel towns. Smotrich’s comments came after an Israeli soldier was killed by a …
ISLAMABAD, May 25 (Reuters) – More than 30 people died in a suicide bombing of a train in southwestern Pakistan on Sunday, officials said on Monday, in the latest attack claimed by separatist Balochistan militants. Two provincial officials, speaking on condition of anonymity as they were not authorised to disclose the information, said on Monday …
KATHMANDU, May 25 (Reuters) – Mount Everest expedition operators must focus on the experience and knowledge of climbers to lower risks and minimise deaths on the mountain, a British climber and guide who has made the most ascents to the peak by a non-Sherpa said on Monday. Five people have died on Everest this year …
PLANO, Texas (AP) — Voters in Texas will see little of the Republican candidates for U.S. Senate on Monday. But that’s only if they stay away from screens. There were no public campaign events scheduled for Sen. John Cornyn nor state Attorney General Ken Paxton on the final day of their more than yearlong quest …
WASHINGTON, May 25 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday it should be mandatory for countries including Qatar, Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan and Turkey to join the Abraham Accords en masse as part of an effort to reach a deal with Iran. Trump said he spoke on Saturday to leaders of those countries, as …
ATHENS, May 25 (Reuters) – Greek police arrested 20 people on the island of Crete on Monday, saying they had dismantled a criminal gang suspected of defrauding the European Union of agricultural subsidies – the latest case in a growing scandal that has shaken the government. Among the group’s suspected leaders were two accountants and …
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan health authorities on Monday reported two new Ebola cases, bringing the number of infections to seven. A 59-year-old Congolese man was admitted to a hospital in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, on May 11, and died three days later, before it was known he was suffering from the Ebola virus. Two …