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UN Security Council to survey Rohingya crisis in Myanmar

Since August last year, more than 700,000 ethnic Muslims have been displaced from the Rakhine state at the hands of the Myanmar military.

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The ties that (don’t) bind: Australia-Russia relations

Australia-Russia relations have soured further after Canberra expelled Russian diplomats in response to the poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

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Lebanese diaspora begin casting votes ahead of historic election

Lebanese nationals around the world will begin voting in parliamentary elections today, ahead of the…

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Voters in Italy’s Friuli Venezia Giulia region likely to favour populists

Today, voters in Italy’s northeastern Friuli-Venezia Giulia region will head to the polls to elect…

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Pakistan’s Imran Khan rallies supporters in Lahore ahead of July election

Khan is a critic of Afghanistan’s government as a puppet of the US and has called for negotiations with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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Secretary of State Pompeo to meet PM Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Sunday

Today, freshly-appointed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to…

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10 days of talks on Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership begin in Singapore

RCEP is a 16-nation free trade deal that includes China, Japan, India, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and ASEAN.

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Foreign ministers of Iran, Russia, Turkey discuss clouds over nuclear accord

The foreign ministers of Turkey and Iran will meet in Moscow today with their Russian…

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Gabon’s opposition unlikely to replicate 2016 performance in legislative election

Legislative elections for Gabon’s 120-person National Assembly will be held today after having been twice…

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Leader of North and South Korea meet in truce village for historic summit

Today’s meeting will be just the third time that leaders from the two countries have met since the 1950 Korean War.