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Russia said on Wednesday the world was getting tired of endless threats against Iran and that bombing the Islamic Republic would not bring peace, cautioning that Tehran was already taking preventative measures.

Russia summoned the French ambassador in Moscow to the foreign ministry to complain after a Russian diplomat was detained by border guards at a French airport, foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.

"As a result of the demarches undertaken, our colleague was ultimately allowed to enter the country, but she had to spend a day in the border zone of the airport. We do not intend to leave this without consequences," state news agency RIA quoted Zakharova as saying.

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“The United States of America will not allow communist China or any other country to threaten the canal’s operation or integrity,” he said.

He noted that the U.S. and Panama strengthened their defense and security cooperation in recent weeks and together “will take back the Panama Canal from China’s influence.”

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The European Union on Tuesday reached out to Beijing for help in tracking a wave of Chinese imports that is expected to pour toward the EU after U.S. Donald Trump ramped up tariffs on China.

China has pledged to “fight to the end” against Washington in an escalating showdown with Trump that could see Chinese goods facing tariffs of as high as 104 percent in entering the U.S. market.

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen spoke to Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang offering “a negotiated resolution” to “the widespread disruption caused by the US tariffs” on Tuesday, according to a statement from the executive.

The Tesla founder said Peter Navarro, the president’s senior counsellor for trade, was “dumber than a sack of bricks” after Mr Navarro accused the world’s richest man of leading a “car assembler” rather than a manufacturer.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces had captured two Chinese men fighting on Russia’s side in eastern Ukraine, potentially threatening a fragile peace effort in the three-year-old war.

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The Trump administration is considering launching drone strikes on drug cartels in Mexico as part of an ambitious effort to combat criminal gangs trafficking narcotics across the southern border, according to six current and former U.S. military, law enforcement and intelligence officials with knowledge of the matter.

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Japan is facing challenges with Donald Trump's new tariffs and is considering increased purchases of U.S. goods, negotiating tariff reductions and expanding auto production in the U.S. to reduce the trade deficit and avoid further economic tension. | AFP-JIJI

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Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala's X social media account was attacked on Tuesday morning, with fake posts appearing, including about a Russian attack on Czech soldiers, a government office spokesperson said.

"The post about the attack on Czech soldiers is not true," spokesperson Lucie Michut Jesatkova said in a text message to Reuters.

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