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MOSCOW (Reuters) - On a shelf in a cramped office on the outskirts of Moscow, businessman Igor Michurin has a framed photograph of himself shaking hands with one of his important customers - a North Korean embassy official whom Michurin calls Lee.

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PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech president will re-appoint Andrej Babis as prime minister on Wednesday as he tries to end a long political stalemate by forming a coalition backed by the anti-NATO Communists for the first time since the 1989 Velvet Revolution.

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AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordanian unions pressed ahead with a strike on Wednesday to protest a draft tax law despite efforts by King Abdullah to defuse public anger after the country's largest protests in years.

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PARIS (Reuters) - Iran's declaration that it could increase its uranium enrichment capacity if a nuclear deal with world powers falls apart risks sailing close to the "red line", France's foreign minister said on Wednesday.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - No military ship or aircraft can scare China away from its resolve to protect its territory, China's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday after two U.S. Air Force B-52 bombers were reported to have flown near disputed islands in the South China Sea.

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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - As Malaysia seeks to move beyond the excesses associated with nearly a decade of rule under ex-prime minister Najib Razak, one of his pet projects continues to rise irreversibly skyward to become the tallest building in Southeast Asia.

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