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(Reuters) -Tens of thousands of revelers attending the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert have been asked to shelter in place and conserve food and water on Saturday after a rainstorm turned the site into mud. Access to and from Black Rock City, the event’s site, was closed “for the remainder of the event,” organizers said in a statement on social media. “Rain over the last 24 hours has […]

SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi security forces deployed in the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk on Sunday to prevent further violence as the death toll in clashes between ethnic groups the previous day rose to four, police and security sources said. Four protesters were shot dead on Saturday in clashes between ethnic groups in Kirkuk that broke out after days of tensions. Police and medical sources said all four […]

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s new Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin will miss a regional meeting of Asia’s leaders in Jakarta next week, the foreign ministry said on Sunday. Srettha won a parliamentary vote to become prime minister last month and his cabinet was endorsed by the king on Saturday. The prime minister and his cabinet are due to take an oath before an audience with King Maha Vajiralongkorn on Tuesday and […]

BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Three protesters were shot dead and 14 were wounded on Saturday during clashes between ethnic groups in the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk that broke out after days of tensions, security forces and police said. The dispute centres on a building in Kirkuk that was once the headquarters for the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) but which the Iraqi army has used a base since 2017. The central government […]

By Philip Pullella ULAANBAATAR (Reuters) – Pope Francis sent greetings to China on Sunday, calling its citizens a “noble” people and asking Catholics in China to be “good Christians and good citizens,” in his latest overture to the communist country to ease restrictions on religion. Francis made the unscripted comments at the end of a Mass in Mongolia’s capital, calling up the former and current archbishops of Hong Kong, Cardinal […]

By Philip Pullella ULAANBAATAR (Reuters) – Pope Francis sent greetings to China on Sunday, calling its citizens a “noble” people and asking Catholics in China to be “good Christians and good citizens,” in his latest overture to the communist country to ease restrictions on religion. Francis made the unscripted comments at the end of a Mass in Mongolia’s capital, calling up the former and current archbishops of Hong Kong, Cardinal […]

By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) – Armenia’s prime minister has said his country’s policy of solely relying on Russia to guarantee its security was a strategic mistake because Moscow has been unable to deliver and is in the process of winding down its role in the wider region. In an interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica published on Sunday, Nikol Pashinyan accused Russia of failing to ensure Armenia’s security in […]

ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will focus on the Black Sea grain deal during their meeting on Monday as Turkey seeks to bring Moscow back to the deal, Erdogan’s chief foreign policy advisor said. “We play a leading role here. We see strong support from all around the world for the realisation of the grain corridor,” Erdogan’s chief foreign policy and security […]

(Reuters) -Tens of thousands of revelers attending the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert have been asked to shelter in place and conserve food and water on Saturday after a rainstorm turned the site into mud. Access to and from Black Rock City, the event’s site, was closed “for the remainder of the event,” organizers said in a statement on social media. “Rain over the last 24 hours has […]