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Israel considers recognition of Morocco’s rule over Western Sahara

By Dan Williams and Ahmed Eljechtimi JERUSALEM/RABAT (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s national security adviser visited Rabat on Wednesday as his government mulls a possible announcement of recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over disputed Western Sahara, officials said. Morocco considers Western Sahara its own, but the Algeria-backed Polisario front demands an independent state there. In …

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Pakistan’s Imran Khan formally named in ‘abetting’ lawyer’s drive-by murder

By Gul Yousafzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) -Pakistani police on Wednesday formally named former Prime Minister Imran Khan in connection with the murder by unknown gunmen of a lawyer seeking sedition proceedings against him. Police registered an “abetment to murder” case against former cricket hero Khan, 70, who faces dozens of charges since his ouster in …

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Prince Harry: It would be injustice if court rules I’m not hacking victim

By Michael Holden and Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) -Prince Harry said on Wednesday he would feel a sense of injustice if London’s High Court did not conclude he was a phone-hacking victim, as he completed more than eight hours giving evidence against a British tabloid newspaper group. Harry, King Charles’ younger son, spent a day-and-a-half …

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Kenya’s parliament approves appointment of new central banker

By Duncan Miriri (Reuters) -Kenya’s national assembly on Wednesday approved President William Ruto’s pick of economist and senior civil servant, Kamau Thugge, as the next central bank governor. Thugge, who served as the principal secretary, No. 2 official, in the finance ministry until mid-2018, was nominated to the post by Ruto last month after serving …

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Prince Harry tells court: ‘Nobody wants to be phone hacked’

LONDON (Reuters) – Prince Harry finished giving evidence at the High Court in London on Wednesday during a second day of grilling over his allegations that British tabloids targeted him with phone-hacking and other unlawful behaviour. Harry and others are suing Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), publisher of the Daily Mirror and other tabloids, accusing them …

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EU considers mandatory ban on using Huawei to build 5G – FT

(Reuters) -The European Union is considering a mandatory ban on member-states using companies that might pose a security risk in their 5G networks, including China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. The move comes as a response to increasing concerns in Brussels about certain national governments delaying action on the matter, …

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Blinken looks to travel to China for talks in coming weeks -US official

By Trevor Hunnicutt and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to China for talks in the coming weeks, an official said on Tuesday, months after Washington’s top diplomat scrapped a planned trip over a suspected Chinese spy balloon that flew across the U.S. The visit is intended by Washington …

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