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Russians marking Stalin's repression warn against return to past

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#UPDATE President Xi Jinping on Friday invited Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to China, in the first formal talks between the nations' leaders since 2017, before also holding first discussions with Japan's new premier ➡️ u.afp.com/Segu

China and Canada's leaders on Friday opened their first formal talks since 2017, with Xi Jinping meeting Prime Minister Mark Carney in South Korea, Chinese state media reported ➡️ u.afp.com/Segu

Australia's state of Victoria has passed the country's first treaty with Indigenous peoples, a landmark act of recognition long denied to the nation's first inhabitants ➡️ u.afp.com/SegE

Division and suspicion have gripped five villages near Kenya's coast as global powers from the United States to China eye a forest that is rich in rare earths -- minerals vital to high-tech and low-carbon industries ➡️ u.afp.com/SeMT

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said they arrested several fighters accused of committing abuses during the capture of the western city of El-Fasher, as a UN official warned the "horror is continuing" in both Darfur and neighbouring Kordofan ➡️ u.afp.com/SeMc

#UPDATE The centrist D66 party won the knife-edge Dutch election, local news agency ANP projected on Friday, saying its vote tally showed far-right leader Geert Wilders could not close the gap ➡️ u.afp.com/SeMe

#BREAKING Centrist D66 party wins knife-edge Dutch election, local news agency ANP projects

Camels can graze on dry grasses, go more than a week without water, and produce up to six times more milk than cattle -- making them an increasingly necessary option in northern Kenya, an area particularly vulnerable to climate change ➡️ u.afp.com/SeMu

US President Donald Trump's surprise directive to begin nuclear weapons testing provoked global criticism on Friday, as it raised the specter of renewed superpower tensions ➡️ u.afp.com/SeQ3

The decision by Britain's King Charles III's to strip his brother Andrew of his royal titles and effectively exile him won widespread backing on Friday, but failed to calm calls for further action and greater oversight of the monarchy ➡️ u.afp.com/SeQ5

China held a send-off ceremony on Friday for a new crew of astronauts set to depart for its space station, including its youngest "taikonaut" and four lab mice ➡️ u.afp.com/SeQN