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UK government spent 162 million pounds on Queen Elizabeth's funeral

British government departments spent an estimated total of 161.7 million pounds ($204 million) on Queen Elizabeth's state funeral and related events, the Treasury said on Thursday.

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Armenian PM agrees to hold Moscow peace talks with Azeri leader and Putin - Ifax

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Thursday he had agreed to hold peace talks in Moscow on May 25 with Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, with Russian President Vladimir Putin mediating, the Interfax news agency reported.

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Exceptional weather becomes the new norm in exposed Italy

Storms, avalanches, floods and drought have slammed Italy over the past year, killing dozens of people, as once exceptional disasters become a regular part of life, leaving the government scrambling to find answers.

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Russia accuses Prague of 'illegal' move against its embassy, pledges action

Russia on Thursday said a move by the Czech government to cancel Soviet-era decrees that granted the Russian embassy free use of land in Prague and other cities was illegal and pledged to take measures to defend its own interests.

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Mexico police rescue most of 50 migrants kidnapped from bus

Mexican police have rescued 34 migrants from a farm, part of a group of about 50 who were kidnapped from a bus in the northeastern state of Nuevo Leon bordering the United States, authorities said.

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Factbox-Turkey election runoff 2023: what you need to know

Turks vote on May 28 in a presidential election runoff between the incumbent Tayyip Erdogan and his challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu that will decide whether the president extends his rule into a third decade.

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ADB warns China it risks wasting money on state-led growth

China needs to level the playing field between private and state owned firms, the Asian Development Bank's chief economist said on Thursday, adding that the world's second-largest economy risks "wasting a tonne of money" with a state-led growth model.

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Sudan's conflict inflicts heavy toll on children

After surviving weeks of fighting in Khartoum, Sanaa Mahmoud has finally got her family to safety in Cairo but says her daughter still wakes up at night screaming because of the gunfire and airstrikes that rocked her neighbourhood.

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Premature Ukrainian war babies get donated breast milk in Poland under UN programme

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Kremlin says it needs to see more progress after Black Sea grain deal renewal

The Kremlin on Thursday confirmed that Russia had renewed the Black Sea grain deal for two months after achieving some results in talks which had given it "certain hopes", but said more progress had to be made to advance its own interests.

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Erdogan rival pledges to repatriate all refugees before Turkey runoff

Tayyip Erdogan's challenger in Turkey's presidential race has sharpened his tone on migrants on Thursday, vowing to send all migrants back to their countries once elected in a May 28 runoff vote.

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Long-necked dinosaur fossil found by Argentine scientists is one of biggest ever

Argentine paleontologists have discovered the remains of a gigantic new species of long-necked herbivorous dinosaur in the country's southern Patagonia region, saying the beast ranks as one of the largest ever discovered.

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Polish news websites hit by DDoS attacks

Several Polish news websites were hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that the government said could be the action of Russian hacking groups, the digitalisation minister was quoted as saying on Thursday.

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US, UK, others seek to target illicit oil shipping transfers at sea

The U.S., UK, Denmark and other countries have called for more action, including increased surveillance, over the booming practice of unregulated oil transfers at sea, as fears grow over potential pollution, according to a paper submitted to the U.N.

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Russian mercenary boss accuses regular army of leaving Bakhmut's flanks exposed

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, on Thursday accused regular Russian army units of pulling back 570 metres north of the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, leaving his own fighters' flanks exposed.

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Lebanon’s central bank boss urged to resign after French arrest warrant

Lebanese Deputy Prime Minister Saadeh al-Shami called on Thursday for Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh to resign following France’s issuing of an arrest warrant against him as part of a fraud investigation.

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Kremlin says African Ukraine peace delegation will visit Moscow

The Kremlin said on Thursday that a delegation from African countries hoping to present an initiative to end the conflict in Ukraine would visit Moscow.

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Devastating Italian floods kill at least 13, wreck homes and farms

Floods that killed at least 13 people in Italy's northern Emilia-Romagna region caused billions of euros' worth of damage and hit agriculture particularly hard, the regional governor said on Thursday.

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Syria's Assad boosted by return to Arab fold

President Bashar al-Assad has always seen time as an ally in the Syrian civil war, along with the Iranian and Russian firepower that helped him defeat his enemies, according to sources familiar with his thinking.

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Analysis-Qatar takes diplomatic back seat as Saudi flexes political muscle

The Arab League's welcoming back of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad into its ranks highlights how far behind Qatar has fallen in its bid to be a diplomatic voice that carries weight in the Middle East.

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Near Ukraine's southern frontline, medics brave rockets to treat soldiers

As the doctor prepared to administer an injection, the loud thud of an artillery shell in the distance broke the silence in the operating room.

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Kremlin says freezing of Finland's bank accounts in Russia was forced retaliatory step

The Kremlin said on Thursday that a decision to freeze the bank accounts of Finnish embassies and consulates in Russia was a response to what it called the unfriendly acts of "the collective West", including Finland.

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Vietnam rebukes China, Philippines over South China Sea conduct

Vietnam on Thursday criticised recent conduct by a Chinese research ship and the Philippine coast guard in the South China Sea, accusing its neighbours of separate actions that were violating its sovereign rights.

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EBRD pledges more support for Ukraine with capital boost

At a meeting in Russia's former Central Asian backyard, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on Thursday pledged further support for war-torn Ukraine with plans to increase its capital by 3 billion-5 billion euros.

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Hoping for invitation to WHO meeting, Taiwan gathers more support

Taiwan said it still hoped to be invited to the World Health Organization's annual assembly opening in Geneva on Sunday, as support for its participation was growing despite China's efforts to isolate the democratically governed island.

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