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BAKU (Reuters) – Azerbaijan lodged a strong protest on Saturday after its national flag was grabbed and set on fire during the opening ceremony of a weightlifting championship in neighbouring Armenia.

(Reuters) – Russia’s regular spring military draft campaign is proceeding as scheduled and there are no plans to send out mass electronic notices under a new system just signed into law by President Vladimir Putin, a top official said on Saturday.

KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda’s assistant finance minister has been arrested and detained on accusations of diverting metal roofing sheets meant for a relief program in the restive northeastern Karamoja region, police said late on Friday.

(Reuters) – Bank of England policymaker Silvana Tenreyro said on Friday past interest rate rises would take time to bear down on inflation, and that it was important not to over-adjust policy while the impact of these past rate rises was feeding through.

BELGRADE (Reuters) – Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik on Friday told his ally Serbia he was seriously considering declaring the autonomous Serb Republic independent from the rest of Bosnia unless a row over a property law is resolved.

TOKYO (Reuters) – A pipe-like object was thrown near Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during an outdoor speech in the city of Wakayama on Saturday, the Jiji news service said.

(Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund is seeking “necessary” financing assurances from Pakistan as soon as possible to conclude a bailout pact with the South Asian nation, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday.

By Valentina Za and Giulio Piovaccari MILAN (Reuters) – In 1977, a Ferrari owner offloaded his 1962 250 GTO because his wife complained it was too noisy, recounts Andrea Modena, head of Ferrari’s classic car division. It was either her or the car.

By Katya Golubkova and Yuka Obayashi SAPPORO, Japan (Reuters) – Members of the Group of Seven rich nations must act to help emerging countries reduce emissions, including the financing of decarbonisation in “hard-to-abate” industries, Japan’s economy and trade minister said on Saturday.

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya launched its first operational earth observation satellite on Saturday onboard a SpaceX rocket from the United States, a live feed from Elon Musk’s rocket company showed.

By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber GENEVA (Reuters) – Before arriving in Geneva for a renowned piano competition, Ukrainian pianist Roman Lopatynskyi rehearsed in the dark and played concerts by candlelight as air raid sirens resounded across his native Kyiv.

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Emergency authorities in Western Australia were assessing damage on Saturday from a tropical cyclone that hit the state’s northwest, sparing heavily populated areas but affecting several remote communities.

By Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) – The security of both Europe and the Indo-Pacific are set to take centre stage as foreign ministers of the Group of Seven nations gather in Japan from Sunday, meeting against the backdrop of Russia’s war in Ukraine and China’s growing

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s top diplomat Wang Yi “hopes and believes” Germany will support China’s “peaceful reunification” with Taiwan, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

By John Revill and Noele Illien ZURICH/BERN (Reuters) – Switzerland’s tradition of dependable consensus politics has taken a battering after the government used an emergency law to push through a state-backed mega-merger of UBS and Credit Suisse, sidelining the country’s parliament.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s main pro-democracy coalition said loyalists of former strongman Omar al-Bashir, who was ousted in a coup in 2019, were fuelling a rift between the armed forces and a powerful paramilitary group that has jeopardized a transition to civilian government.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s head of state and army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan is prepared to take any step to solve an ongoing standoff with the powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a group of mediators including leaders of other paramilitary groups said in a

By Lewis Jackson and Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – The second person ever charged with violating Australia’s foreign interference laws appeared in a local court on Saturday following his arrest a day earlier.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Gulf Arab foreign ministers and their counterparts from Egypt, Iraq and Jordan discussed Syria’s possible return to the Arab fold at a meeting in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) – The United States, Japan and South Korea said in a joint statement they discussed the regularisation of missile defence and anti-submarine exercises to deter and respond to North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats.