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BEKAA VALLEY, Lebanon (Reuters) - The soldiers came before daybreak, singling out the Syrian men without residence permits from the tattered camp in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. As toddlers wailed around them, Mona, a Syrian refugee in Lebanon for a decade, watched Lebanese troops shuffle her brother onto a truck headed for the Syrian border.
Thirteen years since Syria's conflict broke out, Lebanon remains home... (continue reading...)
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's human rights commissioner said on Wednesday that prisoner of war exchanges between Russia and Ukraine had been suspended for several months, the state TASS news agency said on Wednesday.
TASS cited Tatyana Moskalova as blaming what she called Kyiv's "false demands." There was no immediate comment from Ukraine.
Moscow and Kyiv have carried out periodic prisoner swaps via intermediaries since Moscow began what... (continue reading...)
By Sarah Wu and Philip Blenkinsop
BEIJING/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission's expected move to hike tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles is set to kick off a round of talks that Chinese executives hope will soften the blow for the world's biggest EV industry.
The provisional tariffs, expected to be announced by June 5, will be a sticker shock representing billions of dollars in new costs for Chinese electric car makers.
... (continue reading...)JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africans vote in national and provincial elections on May 29 that polls suggest could loosen the African National Congress' 30-year grip on power.
After the vote, the new National Assembly will choose the country's next president from among its members.
Below are facts about the election and the voting process.
HOW DOES SOUTH AFRICA'S ELECTORAL SYSTEM WORK?
South African voters will go... (continue reading...)
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Wednesday that President Vladimir Putin had appointed Alexei Dyumin, an aide and former bodyguard, as secretary of the State Council, an advisory body to the Russian head of state.
After being re-elected for another six-year term earlier this year, Putin made Dyumin an aide specialising in the defence industry and the Kremlin spoke at the time of other responsibilities for him.
A decree signed by... (continue reading...)
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