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(Reuters) - Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Tuesday there was "not one shred of evidence" of ship-to-ship transfers of sanctioned Iranian oil off Malaysia, amid U.S. concern that Iran was using Malaysian service providers to move its oil.

A senior U.S. Treasury official said last week the United States saw Iran's capacity to move its oil as being reliant on providers in Malaysia.

That official also said the United States... (continue reading...)

By James Mackenzie and Nidal al-Mughrabi

JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) - Seven months into the war, Israeli troops are back fighting in the north of the Gaza Strip, in areas that were supposed to have been cleared months ago, highlighting growing questions about the government's declared goal of eliminating Hamas.

As tanks have started pushing into the southern city of Rafah, where the military says the last four intact battalions of Hamas... (continue reading...)

By Stella Qiu and Wayne Cole

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's government plans to spend billions to cut energy bills and rent, lowering headline inflation and providing relief for voters grumbling about cost of living pressures ahead of an election next year.

In his third annual budget since taking office in 2022, Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Tuesday pledged more money for renewables, critical minerals and defence, alongside a long planned cut... (continue reading...)

PRETORIA (Reuters) -South Africa's unemployment rate rose to 32.9% in the first quarter of 2024 from 32.1% in the fourth quarter of 2023, statistics agency data showed on Tuesday, two weeks before an election where joblessness is a key voter concern.

Statistics South Africa said the number of unemployed people rose to 8.226 million in the first three months of this year from 7.895 million in the last three months of last year.

South Africans... (continue reading...)

BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) - China poses a genuine and increasing cyber risk to the United Kingdom, the head of British spy agency GCHQ said on Tuesday, adding that while Russia and Iran represented an immediate threat, Beijing was an epoch-defining challenge.

"As the prime minister said yesterday, the next few years will be some of the most dangerous and transformational," Anne Keast-Butler told a security conference in Birmingham, central... (continue reading...)