Reuters: World News: Russia's Putin takes Siberian hiking break with top security chiefs

The Kremlin released several official photographs on Monday showing Russian President Vladimir Putin taking a hiking holiday in Siberia with his defense minister and the head of the Federal Security Service, the FSB.

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Reuters: World News: Merkel, Trump share concerns about Syrian developments: Merkel's spokesman

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Donald Trump share concerns about developments in Syria, especially the humanitarian situation in the region around Idlib, Merkel's spokesman said after the two leaders spoke by telephone.

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Reuters: World News: China considers measures to curb workplace harassment: Xinhua

China is considering introducing measures to tackle sexual harassment in the workplace in a civil code draft submitted to the country's top legislature on Monday, state news agency Xinhua reported.

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Reuters: World News: Iran forces kill two militants, seize 14 near western border

Iranian security forces killed two militants and arrested 14 in two separate operations carried out in the western part of the country, Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi said on Monday, quoted by the IRIB news agency. 

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Reuters: World News: U.N. rights panel says Myanmar commander-in-chief should step down

A United Nations human rights panel said on Monday that Myanmar's commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing should step down following the panel's call for his prosecution on suspicion of "genocidal intent" and grave crimes against Muslim Rohingya.

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Reuters: World News: Tarnished by bailout, Greek PM eyes reshuffle before election

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras tipped his interior minister to take up a key post in his leftist Syriza party on Monday, heralding a cabinet reshuffle to shore up waning support after painful bailouts.

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Reuters: World News: Qatar to expand air base hosting major U.S. military facility

Qatar will expand two air bases including Udeid, which hosts the largest U.S. military facility in the Middle East, a senior military official said on Monday amid a year-long dispute between the tiny Gulf Arab state and its neighbors.

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Reuters: World News: U.N. calls for Myanmar generals to be tried for genocide, blames Facebook for incitement

Myanmar's military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with "genocidal intent", and the commander-in-chief and five generals should be prosecuted for the gravest crimes under international law, U.N. investigators said.

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Reuters: World News: Attackers beat, injure Bosnian Serb journalist reporting on suspicious death

A Bosnian Serb journalist who reported on the suspicious death of a young man was severely beaten late on Sunday, when hooded men attacked him in the Bosnian Serb capital of Banja Luka, his employer the local BN TV said.

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Reuters: World News: Russian court jails Kremlin critic Navalny over protest

A Russian court sentenced opposition leader Alexei Navalny to 30 days in jail on Monday after convicting him of breaking public protest laws, a move he said was illegal and aimed at stopping him leading a rally against pension reform next month.

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Reuters: World News: Ethiopia arrests disgraced regional boss accused of rights abuses

Police in Ethiopia arrested the disgraced former head of the eastern Somali region on Monday on charges of human rights abuses and stoking deadly ethnic clashes, the attorney general's office said.

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Reuters: World News: German government condemns far-right demo in eastern city after killing

Germany will not tolerate "vigilante justice", Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman said on Monday, after hundreds of far right protesters staged a violent demonstration in response to a fatal stabbing that authorities blamed on a Syrian and an Iraqi.

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Reuters: World News: Russia postpones peace talks with Taliban - Afghan President

Russia has agreed to postpone multilateral peace talks with the Taliban, a week after the insurgents accepted an invitation to go to Moscow for a Sept. 4 summit, the office of the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Monday.

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