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France threatens to break refinery blockades in strike standoff

Workers’ unrest has disrupted supply of country’s petrol stations

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Erdogan to meet Putin in Astana: Turkish official

Turkey president has tried to mediate truce talks between Moscow, Kyiv

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Israel, Lebanon close to sealing ‘historic’ maritime deal 

Agreement could unlock offshore gas production for both countries

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54 poor nations urgently need debt relief: UN

Agency reports that 46 countries had amassed public borrowings totalling US$782 billion in 2020

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Thousands march in Haiti to protest calls for intervention

Government has formally requested for international assistance last week to staunch spiraling insecurity

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Hong Kong leader says he ‘laughs off’ US sanctions

Island has angered Washington by not taking action against superyacht allegedly owned by Russian oligarch

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Iran students, workers defy protest crackdown

Multi-faceted nature of demonstrations complicate state’s attempts to quell movement

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UK’s top court to assess legal basis for new Scottish independence vote

Opinion polls now indicate that voters nearly evenly divided over secession

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Ukraine denounces Russia as ‘terrorist state’ in UN meeting

Kyiv’s rep to world body blasts ‘unstable and insane dictatorship’ after Moscow’s missile strikes

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UK facing 'painful' cuts to fix public finances: study

Reducing debts solely in this way ‘risks stretching credulity to breaking point’, says think-tank

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Over 154,000 households in 26 provinces hit by floods in Thailand

Discharges from dams filled to capacity inundate many low-lying areas

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Missile strikes on ‘many cities’ of Ukraine: Kyiv

Russian ‘terrorists’ have also launched attack on capital, says mayor

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Second Australia-based Singtel subsidiary hacked

Dialog confirms ‘unauthorised third party may have accessed company data’