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Norway joins EU's Baltic Sea Region cooperation amid greater security focus
OSLO, May 18 (Reuters) - Norway said on Monday it has joined the European Union's Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR), which aims to coordinate work around common challenges, including security aspects.
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Revised Iranian proposal to end war shared with US, Pakistani source says
ISLAMABAD, May 18 (Reuters) - Pakistan has shared with the U.S. a revised proposal from Iran to end the conflict in the Middle East, a Pakistani source told Reuters on Monday, as peace talks appeared to remain stalled.
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Putin faces 'very difficult choices' in Ukraine as sanctions bite, Estonia's spy chief says
TALLINN, May 18 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has few good options in Ukraine with his armed forces unable to advance significantly on the battlefield while Western sanctions are chipping away at his resources, Estonia's foreign intelligence chief has said.
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Prabowo says Indonesia will build defence capability further as Air Force receives Rafale jets
JAKARTA, May 18 (Reuters) - Indonesia will continue to build up its defence capabilities amid an uncertain geopolitical situation, President Prabowo Subianto said on Monday as he officially handed over six Rafale fighter jets and other military hardware to the Indonesian Air Force.
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Belarus holds nuclear weapons drills
May 18 (Reuters) - Belarus, which hosts Russian nuclear weapons, said on Monday its armed forces had begun training on how to deploy them in the field.
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Conservatives win election in Spain's Andalusia, but need far right to govern
MADRID, May 18 (Reuters) - The conservative People's Party won the election in Spain's southern Andalusia region but lost its absolute majority, results showed on Monday, forcing it to forge an alliance with far-right party Vox to remain in power.
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Ukraine, Hungary agree to hold consultations on Hungarian minority, Ukrainian FM says
May 18 (Reuters) - Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on Monday he had a "constructive and substantive" call with his Hungarian counterpart Anita Orban over the weekend.
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Australia's property tax overhaul unpopular with voters, polls show
SYDNEY, May 18 (Reuters) - Australia's centre-left government is facing voter blowback after breaking election promises to roll out the biggest changes to investment taxes in decades in its latest budget, according to two closely watched polls.
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Russian attacks kill one, injure more than 30 in Ukraine overnight, officials say
May 18 (Reuters) - Russia launched drones, airstrikes and shelling at Ukraine overnight, targeting cities such as Odesa in the south and Dnipro in the southeast, killing one person and injuring more than 30, Ukrainian officials said on Monday.
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Philippines to convene court for VP impeachment amid political turmoil
MANILA, May 18 (Reuters) - The Philippine Senate was due to convene as an impeachment court on Monday that could decide the future of Vice President Sara Duterte, with a heated battle between two rival political camps set to be front and centre in the trial.
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Venezuelan mother dies 10 days after state confirms missing son died in custody
May 17 (Reuters) - Carmen Navas, the 82-year-old mother who spent nearly a year searching for her detained son in Venezuela, has died just 10 days after the government confirmed he had died in state custody, the NGO that handled his case reported.
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Hantavirus-hit cruise ship arrives at Rotterdam port as final destination
ROTTERDAM, May 18 (Reuters) - A luxury liner at the centre of an outbreak of hantavirus reached the Dutch port of Rotterdam on Monday, marine tracking sites said, where authorities prepared quarantine arrangements for the 23 crew and two medical staff remaining on board.
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3 missing after 5.2-magnitude earthquake hits south China's Guangxi
NANNING, May 18 (Xinhua) -- A 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck Liuzhou, a city in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, early Monday, leaving three people missing and four others hospitalized, local authorities said.
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Random shootings leave 4 injured in U.S. Texas
NEW YORK, May 17 (Xinhua) -- At least 10 random shootings left four people injured across Austin in the U.S. state of Texas on Sunday.
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North Korea's Kim calls for stronger frontline units to deter war, KCNA says
SEOUL, May 18 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said plans to strengthen frontline units on the border with South Korea, as well as other major units, were key to "more thoroughly deter war," state media KCNA reported on Monday.
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Military jets' crew members safely ejected after Idaho air show collision, Navy says
WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - Four crew members involved in a mid-air collision of military jets at an air show ejected safely on Sunday outside Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, the U.S. Navy said.
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"Michael" regains No. 1 spot at North American box office
LOS ANGELES, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Lionsgate's Michael Jackson biopic "Michael" regained the No. 1 spot at the North American box office with 26.1 million U.S. dollars in its fourth weekend of release, according to data from measurement firm Comscore released on Sunday.
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Saudi says it intercepted three drones that entered from Iraqi airspace
CAIRO, May 17 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia on Sunday said it intercepted three drones after they entered its territory from Iraqi airspace.
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Canada confirms 1st hantavirus case
OTTAWA, May 17 (Xinhua) -- The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has confirmed a case of hantavirus in a cruise passenger currently isolating in British Columbia following laboratory testing.
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5 killed, 15 wounded in Israeli strikes across S. Lebanon
BEIRUT, May 17 (Xinhua) -- At least five people, including two children, were killed and 15 others wounded on Sunday as Israeli strikes intensified across southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese sources.
