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BEIJING (Reuters) -China's commerce ministry said on Monday it has opened an anti-dumping investigation into imported pork and its by-products from the European Union, escalating tensions after the bloc imposed anti-subsidy duties on Chinese-made electric cars.

The investigation will begin on June 17, the ministry said, and was prompted by a complaint submitted by the China Animal Husbandry Association on June 6.

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HARARE (Reuters) -Zimbabwe police have arrested opposition leader Jameson Timba and 80 youths for holding a political gathering which authorities said was unauthorized, their lawyer said on Monday.

Timba took over as interim leader of Citizens Coalition for Change after former leader Nelson Chamisa quit the party in January, alleging it had been hijacked by the ruling ZANU-PF party.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the six-member war cabinet, an Israeli official said on Monday, in a widely expected move that came after the departure from government of the centrist former general Benny Gantz.

Netanyahu is now expected to hold consultations about the Gaza war with a small group of ministers, including Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer who had been in the... (continue reading...)

LONDON (Reuters) - The European Central Bank is confident that inflation will fall back to its 2% target next year despite some "noisy" inflation along the way, the ECB's chief economist Philip Lane said on Monday.

"There's a lot, a fair amount of confidence about the destination in the second half of next year," Lane told Reuters. "So we do have to interpret the incoming data carefully, but to differentiate the noise and the signal."

By Stelios Misinas and Karolina Tagaris

KORYDALLOS PRISON, Greece (Reuters) - On a stifling summer evening, the actors took to the stage: a grassy courtyard enclosed by towering prison walls, topped with barbed wire and lit by a floodlight.

The performers were inmates at Greece's maximum-security jail, and so was the audience. The play - ancient Greek tragedy 'Antigone', a story about free will, disobedience and authority - spoke to... (continue reading...)