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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House National Economic Adviser Lael Brainard said on Thursday China's industrial capacity and exports in certain sectors are so large, they can undermine the viability of investments in the United States.

"China is now simply too big to play by its own rules," Brainard said during remarks at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank.

"China's industrial capacity and exports in certain sectors are... (continue reading...)

By Emma Farge

GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. aid chief warned on Thursday that famine was an immediate risk in Gaza with food stocks running out, describing fresh challenges since the start of the Israel's Rafah operation that made planning and distributing relief almost impossible.

As Israel has pounded southern Gaza, some 600,000 people or about half of the uprooted population sheltering there have fled to other areas of the besieged... (continue reading...)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday it was expelling the British defence attache and promised further, unspecified retaliation after Britain threw out his Russian counterpart last week.

Russia's Foreign Ministry said it had summoned a British embassy representative to inform them of the move.

On May 8, Britain announced it was ordering out the Russian defence attache, describing him as an undeclared military intelligence officer.

By Djaffar Sabiti

KIBATI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Families huddled near the line of small coffins in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, all mourning the children and others killed in a rocket attack, many shouting out accusations against the rebels they said launched the assault.

Relatives held up crosses daubed with the names of the dead and kept their angriest words for Rwanda, the country just over the border that... (continue reading...)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday it is seeking information about three North Korean workers linked to the Communist country's Munitions Industry Department and an American accomplice involved in a scheme to secure illicit work with U.S. firms and government agencies.

The State Department said in a statement that the scheme involved using false identities belonging to more than 60 real Americans and generated at least $6.8... (continue reading...)