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Tensions Explode as Jane’s Addiction Fights on Stage During Boston Concert

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BOSTON, MA – Rock legends Jane’s Addiction shocked fans on Friday night when an onstage altercation broke out between frontman Perry Farrell and guitarist Dave Navarro during their performance. A viral video captured the intense moment as Farrell, 65, lunged toward Navarro, 57, and threw a punch, escalating what appeared to be a heated argument. In the video, Navarro is seen placing his hands on Farrell’s chest, seemingly trying to de-escalate the situation before Farrell took a swing. Fans watched in disbelief as security quickly intervened, restraining the enraged frontman before the situation could get further out of hand. The

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China foreign ministry welcomes Blinken’s visit to China as tensions simmer

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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s foreign ministry on Thursday welcomed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to China as tensions rise between the two countries over global trade, regional conflicts and the Russia-Ukraine war. Blinken will depart on April 23 for a four-day trip to China, where he will meet with senior Chinese officials amid heightening tensions, including over China’s alignment with Russia and aggressive moves against the Philippines in the South China Sea, Politico reported. Blinken is also expected to raise U.S. concerns that Beijing is helping Russia build up its defense industry to fight the war in Ukraine.

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US says Arunachal Pradesh is part of India, amid Indo-China tensions

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By Kanishka Singh and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government recognizes Arunachal Pradesh as part of India and “strongly opposes” any unilateral attempts to advance territorial claims in the northeastern Indian state that shares a border with China, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday. WHY IT IS IMPORTANT Nuclear-armed neighbors China and India share a 3,000-km (1,860 mile) frontier, much of it poorly demarcated. China claims Arunachal Pradesh as part of southern Tibet. New Delhi rejects the claim, saying Arunachal Pradesh has always been a part of India. India’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday that China was

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Top Advisor to Toms River Mayor Storms Out of Town Hall As Tensions Flare

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TOMS RIVER, NJ – Amid the chaos inside town hall in Toms River, tempers flared, as Phil Stilton, the public information officer and police public information officer was allegedly seen yelling at Business Administrator Jon Salonis and Township Attorney Peter Pasquerella on Monday. Well, at least that’s the story going around town today, but I sort of know somebody inside town hall who knows exactly what happened. That person is me. Last summer, Dan Rodrick asked me if I would be his public information officer if he won his election. I said, “Absolutely not”. He kept asking me, I kept

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Iran unveils new air defense weaponry as regional tensions ramp up – IRNA

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(Reuters) – Iran unveiled new weaponry on Saturday including what it said was the locally made Arman anti-ballistic missile system and the Azarakhsh low-altitude air defense system, the official IRNA news agency reported. The announcement came amid heightened tensions in the region, with Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants carrying out a string of attacks on vessels linked to the U.S., UK and Israel in the Red Sea in a show of solidarity with the Gaza Strip. Gaza has been under military assault by Israel since Hamas’s attacks on Israel’s south on Oct. 7. In response to the Houthi attacks, the U.S. has

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Cruise operator Carnival flags impact to operations amid Red Sea tensions

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(Reuters) – Cruise operator Carnival on Friday joined the growing list of companies flagging a potential hit to their operations following attacks on ships in the Red Sea by the Iran-backed Houthis. “We believe that the instability in the Red Sea region currently impacting shipping could have an impact on our results of operations,” Carnival said in a regulatory filing. The company’s U.S.-listed shares fell nearly 2% in morning trade. The attacks, which the Houthis say are in support of Palestinians in Gaza, have raised the cost of shipping and insurance by disrupting a key trade route between Asia and

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Turkey, Iran agree on need to avoid escalating Mideast tensions -Erdogan

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ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he and Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi agreed at a meeting on Wednesday on the need to avoid steps that could further threaten Middle East stability three months into the Gaza war. Turkey, which supports a two-state solution to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has harshly criticised Israel for its attacks on Gaza, called for an immediate ceasefire, and backed legal steps for Israel to be tried for genocide. Unlike its Western allies and some Arab nations, NATO member Turkey does not consider Palestinian militant group Hamas, whose Oct. 7 attack on Israel led to

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Israeli soldiers on northern border dig in and wait as tensions mount

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By James Mackenzie HANITA, Israel (Reuters) – For Israeli troops on the northern border with Lebanon, the government’s strategy of avoiding full-scale war with the Hezbollah troops just a few hundred metres away is embodied in the pages of a 68-year-old training manual. “The Rifle Department”, first issued in 1956 and hastily reprinted in the wake of the mass mobilization that followed the attack on southern Israel by Hamas gunmen on Oct. 7, teaches soldiers old techniques of static defence, said Lt. Col. Dotan Razili, a home front brigade commander in the north. “The IDF usually is an attacking force.

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White House official to visit Beirut, seeking to ease Israel-Lebanon tensions

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By Steve Holland and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senior White House adviser Amos Hochstein is expected to visit Beirut on Thursday, a U.S. official said late on Wednesday, as part of U.S. efforts to ease tensions along the Israel-Lebanon border. Washington fears Israel’s war in Gaza could spread violence across the region, with armed groups backed by Israel’s arch-rival Iran launching solidarity attacks in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has been trading fire with the Israeli military across Lebanon’s southern border since Palestinian Islamist group Hamas attacked Israel from Gaza three months ago, prompting Israel’s

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Mexico restarts repatriating Venezuelans as tensions over migration run high

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico’s government has restarted repatriation flights of Venezuelans, it said on Saturday, two days after officials agreed to work more closely with their U.S. counterparts to tackle record migration at their shared border. Earlier this week, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Mexico to hold high-level talks on migration and other issues. The talks came after the U.S. government temporarily shuttered some border crossings to redeploy agents toward enforcement. In a statement, the Mexican foreign ministry said on Saturday “it was agreed to restart the coordinated mechanism of repatriation flights for Venezuelans.” It said two flights

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Macron defends new French migration law despite political tensions

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By Michel Rose and Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday defended a bill to toughen immigration laws despite an embarrassing parliamentary vote that put his ruling alliance on the same side as Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement national party. The legislation, approved by both houses late on Tuesday, was initially good news for the centrist president, who made the migration bill a key plank of his second mandate and might otherwise have had to shelve it. But the support of Le Pen’s opposition party for the bill surprised Macron, prompting him on Wednesday to accuse Le Pen

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White House adviser Sullivan plans Israel trip amid tensions over Gaza

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan plans to travel to Israel on Thursday and Friday to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid U.S. efforts to pressure Israel to dial back its “indiscriminate” bombing of Gaza. Sullivan has planned meetings with Netanyahu, his War Cabinet, and President Herzog to discuss the latest developments in Israel and Gaza, National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said on Wednesday. The trip comes amid open tensions between U.S. President Joe Biden and Netanyahu over the Israeli military operation in Gaza that followed the deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel by

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Small-town mayor is caught in north Kosovo tensions

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By Fatos Bytyci LEPOSAVIC, Kosovo (Reuters) – Meet the small-town Kosovo mayor who is rejected by most inhabitants of his municipality and who is trapped amid tensions between Albanians and Serbs that have bubbled over into sporadic violence this year. Lulzim Hetemi, the ethnic Albanian mayor of Kosovo’s northern municipality of Leposavic, has lived and slept in his office since a month after he was elected in April, guarded by NATO troops and Kosovo special police. Hetemi, a beekeeper, was elected with only 100 votes in an election that was boycotted by ethnic Serbs who are a minority in Kosovo

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US expresses support for Guyana’s sovereignty amid border tensions with Venezuela

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By Steve Holland and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Thursday reiterated the United States’ “unwavering support” for Guyana’s sovereignty amid growing border tensions between Guyana and Venezuela. The long-running spat over the oil-rich Esequibo region, which is being heard by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), escalated over the weekend when voters in Venezuela rejected the ICJ’s jurisdiction and backed the creation of a new Venezuelan state. Guyana has questioned the vote’s legitimacy, put its armed forces on high alert, and said Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is disregarding ICJ orders about taking no action to change

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Brazil reinforces border with Venezuela and Guyana over Esequibo tensions

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BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s military is reinforcing its northern border due to rising tensions between its neighbors Venezuela and Guyana over Venezuela’s claim to the Esequibo region, the Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday. The Brazilian army is moving armored vehicles and more troops to Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima state that borders both Venezuela and Guyana after Venezuelans voted in a referendum on Sunday to approve the annexation of the Esequibo. The four-wheel drive Guaicuru armored vehicles will join an upgraded 18th Mechanized Cavalry Regiment whose force will increase to 600 soldiers to improve security along the border

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Chinese navy ships visit Myanmar amid heightened security tensions

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BEIJING (Reuters) – Three Chinese navy ships have arrived in Myanmar on a goodwill visit as part of renewed Chinese defence engagement amid Chinese concern about a surge of fighting between Myanmar junta forces and insurgents near the Chinese border. The guided-missile destroyer Zibo and the guided-missile frigate Jingzhou were escorted by a Myanmar frigate to docks in Myanmar’s main city of Yangon on Monday, China’s People’s Liberation Navy (PLAN) said in a statement. The 700-strong force, on a four-day visit, is being led by Senior Captain Sun Bo and includes a Chinese resupply ship, the Qiandaohu, the Global New

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APEC’s growth to slow as persistent inflation, US-China tensions weigh-report

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By David Lawder SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Economic growth among Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation countries is expected to decline next year and remain below the global average as higher interest rates slow U.S. growth, as China continues to struggle with its recovery and tensions between the two hamper trade, the body said on Sunday. The APEC Secretariat’s Policy Support Unit issued new forecasts on the eve of the APEC leaders’ summit in San Francisco, showing that the 21-country region’s growth rate would dip to 2.8% in 2024 from 3.3% in 2023. The APEC GDP growth rate will average 2.9% in

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China warms to U.S. chipmaker Micron, as tensions with Washington ease

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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s commerce minister told Micron Technology Inc’s president Beijing would welcome the U.S. semiconductor company deepening its footprint in the Chinese market, signally a further thaw in relations between the world’s top two economies. In a meeting on Nov. 1, Commerce Minister Wang Wentao told Sanjay Mehrotra, President and CEO of Micron Technology, that China will optimize the environment for foreign investment and provide service guarantees for foreign enterprises, according to a brief statement published on Friday on the commerce ministry’s website. “We welcome Micron Technology to continue to take root in the Chinese market and achieve

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US-China tensions will slow global chip industry, TSMC founder says

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By Krystal Hu NEW YORK (Reuters) -The founder of the world’s biggest chipmaker, Morris Chang, said on Thursday that increasing tensions over technology between the United States and China will slow down the global chip industry. Chang, who founded Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co in the late 1980s, made the remarks at an event hosted by the Asia Society in New York. The company has helped the democratically governed island of Taiwan become the world’s leading producer of advanced chips. U.S. officials earlier this month enacted another set of export restrictions that clamped down on what chips and chipmaking tools can

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Board President of Detroit Synagogue Found Stabbed to Death Amid Rising Tensions

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DETROIT, MI — Samantha Woll, board president of Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, was found stabbed to death outside her residence on Saturday morning. Her death coincides with an uptick in threats nationwide during the ongoing Israeli-Hamas conflict, although police have yet to determine a motive. Detroit police responded to a 911 call early Saturday in the 1300 block of Joliet Place, finding an unresponsive individual lying on the ground. Authorities identified the individual as Woll and confirmed multiple stab wounds, declaring her dead at the scene. A trail of blood led investigators to believe that Woll was killed at her

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US equity funds suffer outflows on rising bond yields, geopolitical tensions

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(Reuters) – U.S. equity funds registered huge withdrawals in the week ending Oct. 18, hit by a surge in bond yields and escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. Investors sold $4.57 billion of U.S. equity funds on a net basis during the week, logging outflows for the fifth consecutive week, according to LSEG data. U.S. Treasury bond yields surged after consensus-topping retail sales data on Tuesday added to evidence that the economy is chugging along despite the Federal Reserve’s efforts to curb inflation through interest rate hikes. Among equities, growth funds witnessed $1.52 billion of selling on net basis

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Analysis-Lula struggles to revive Brazil’s ‘soft power’ amid US-China tensions

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By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) – Since he returned to office in January, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has traveled to 21 countries and met with more than 50 heads of state, including two kings and the Pope. The globe-trotting leftist leader, the first head of state to address the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, has prioritized foreign trips in his third term so far, as he strives to restore his country as a global player. “Brazil is back,” he repeats in speeches across five continents, in contrast with the growing isolation that came with his predecessor

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Russia protests to Armenia as tensions rise over disputed Caucasus region

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(Reuters) – Russia summoned the Armenian ambassador on Friday to present a protest about what it deemed “unfriendly steps” as tension in the South Caucasus surged over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Within hours, Armenia’s foreign ministry issued a statement expressing willingness to resolve disputes with Azerbaijan over the territory, focal point of two wars in the past 30 years. It made no reference to the Russian complaints. Azerbaijan’s foreign ministry, in a series of statements, said it was Armenia which was posing a threat to regional stability by abetting separatism in Nagorno-Karabakh. “Armenia pursues one goal: to sustain separatism

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Analysis-Iran’s nuclear slowdown may prop up US hopes to ease tensions

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By Arshad Mohammed and Francois Murphy WASHINGTON/VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran’s limited steps to slow its buildup of near-weapons-grade uranium may help ease U.S.-Iranian tensions but do not signify progress toward a wider nuclear deal before the 2024 U.S. elections, say analysts. According to U.N. nuclear watchdog reports seen by Reuters, Iran has reduced the rate at which it is making uranium enriched up to 60% purity, close to the roughly 90% that is weapons grade, and has diluted a small fraction of its 60% stockpile. But that stockpile continues to grow. Iran now has nearly enough uranium enriched to 60%,

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