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Australia's Albanese, China's Li to discuss trade, jailed writer Jun 16, 2024 10:06AM

By Kirsty Needham

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Chinese Premier Li Qiang will meet on Monday in the first such visit by a Chinese premier in seven years, with trade ties, regional security and a jailed Australian writer on the host's agenda.

The visit by Li, China's top-ranked official after President Xi Jinping, marks a stabilisation in relations between the U.S. security ally and the world's... (continue reading...)


Fourteen Jordanians die during haj in Saudi Arabia, some succumb to heat Jun 16, 2024 09:21AM

CAIRO (Reuters) - Fourteen Jordanians have been reported dead during the annual Muslim haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, some of them due to heat stroke, while 17 others were reported missing, the Jordanian foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

At least of six of the fatalities were heat related, the ministry said on Saturday, with temperatures predicted to reach 47 degrees Celsius (116 Fahrenheit) in Mecca on Monday.

It didn't... (continue reading...)


Australian writer's sentence upheld ahead of China Premier's visit, say supporters Jun 16, 2024 08:43AM

By Kirsty Needham

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian writer Yang Hengjun's suspended death sentence has been upheld by Beijing's High People's Court, with the decision relayed to Australian officials two weeks before China's Premier Li Qiang arrived in Australia, his supporters said on Sunday.

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will meet Li, who is making the first visit to Australia in seven years by a Chinese premier, in Canberra... (continue reading...)


Swedish diplomat in 'seventh heaven' following release from Iran Jun 16, 2024 08:38AM

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish citizen Johan Floderus said he was in seventh heaven following his release from an Iranian prison on Saturday, in a recording published on the Swedish government's website on Sunday.

Sweden and Iran carried out a prisoner exchange on Saturday with Sweden freeing a former Iranian official convicted for his role in the mass execution and torture of political prisoners in Iran in 1988, while Iran released two Swedes being... (continue reading...)


Hamburg police fire shots at axe-wielding man ahead of Euro 2024 match Jun 16, 2024 07:26AM

By Emma-Victoria Farr

FRANKFURT (Reuters) -German police shot at a man who threatened officers with a pickaxe and an incendiary device on the sidelines of a Euro 2024 soccer fan parade in central Hamburg on Sunday, according to a police spokesperson.

The attacker was injured in the leg and was receiving medical care but his condition is not life-threatening, the spokesperson said.

"He apparently tried to set fire to this Molotov... (continue reading...)


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