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(Reuters) - Microsoft is closing in on a multimillion-euro deal with Amazon-backed cloud lobby CISPE to get it to drop an antitrust complaint, Politico reported on Saturday, citing industry officials with knowledge of the proposal.

(Reporting by Utkarsh Shetti in Bengaluru; Editing by Shri Navaratnam)

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's election is now the bloodiest in its modern history after a candidate running for local office in central Puebla state was murdered on Friday at a political rally, taking the number of assassinated candidates to 37 ahead of Sunday's vote.

Jorge Huerta Cabrera, a candidate who was running for a council seat in the town of Izucar de Matamoros, was gunned down in the attack, according to the... (continue reading...)

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) had 40.98% of the vote after the election commission released results from 91.62% of polling stations late on Friday.

(Reporting by Bhargav Acharya; Editing by Chris Reese)

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean defence minister Shin Won-sik said on Saturday that more evidence suggests weapons used by Russia in the war in Ukraine were illegally imported from North Korea.

"Military cooperation between Russia and North Korea" is escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula and "also affecting the battlefield in Europe", Shin said.

If North Korea continues to receive military technology transfers from Russia in... (continue reading...)

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The United States is unlikely to help South Korea build nuclear-powered submarines at the moment, as it is stretched by AUKUS commitments to Australia, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said at the Shangri-La security dialogue in Singapore.

In 2021 the United States signed the AUKUS pact with Britain and Australia to share nuclear-powered submarine technology and to sell at least three Virginia-class boats to Australia in the... (continue reading...)