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Triple suicide blasts kill 30 in Nigeria’s Borno

Bloomberg At least 30 people were killed and 38 injured in attacks in Nigeria’s northeastern town of Konduga carried out by three female suicide bombers, the National Emergency Management Agency said. The attackers detonated their explosive devices simultaneously in a crowded area of the town, Bello Dambatta, a spokesman for the agency, told reporters in the northeastern city of Maiduguri. ...

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Xi to meet North Korea’s Kim in Pyongyang ahead of G-20

Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to North Korea on Thursday for talks with Kim Jong Un, state media in Beijing and Pyongyang reported. The state visit will take place on June 20-21, China’s official Xinhua News Agency and the Korean Central News Agency reported on Monday, without elaborating. This will be Xi’s first visit as Chinese leader to ...

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HK unrest stirs anti-China mood in Taiwan

Bloomberg As Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam fights to survive, she’s taking heat from another government whose population is similarly skeptical of Beijing: Taiwan, an island claimed by China. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has strongly supported the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators who’ve opposed Lam’s “evil bill” to allow extraditions from Hong Kong to the mainland for the first time. ...

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