World News: 18 June 2023

Vegas Golden Knights fans celebrate 1st NHL championship
Thousands of Vegas Golden Knights fans lined the Las Vegas Strip on Saturday for a Stanley Cup victory parade and a rally in front of the team's home arena to mark the city's first NHL championship.

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US's Blinken begins talks in high-stakes Beijing visit
The list of disagreements and potential conflict points is long, ranging from trade with Taiwan, human rights conditions in China and Hong Kong to Chinese military assertiveness in the South China Sea and Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Blinken will also be pressing the Chinese to release detained American citizens and to take steps to curb the production and export of fentanyl precursors that are fueling the opioid crisis in the United States.

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India weighs barter trade with crisis-hit Egypt in credit-line talks
India, the world's second-largest wheat producer, banned wheat exports in May 2022 to help control rising domestic prices, rescinding a plan to export 3 million tons of wheat to Egypt in the year 2022/23. Egypt now depends mostly on Russia for the grain.

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Serbia gathers for 7th week of anti-government, anti-violence protests
“Vucic out!” chanted the crowd in Belgrade, referring to Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, as his likeness was paraded alongside that of Prime Minister Ana Brnabic and other prominent figures in black-and-white jail garb.

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Start of truce period brings lull in fighting to Sudan's capital
Sudan’s capital of Khartoum was quiet after the start of a 24-hour ceasefire – the latest attempt to end fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group.

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Activists mount pressure on German government to sign heating bill
Activists in Berlin protested on Friday against a climate bill they say has been watered down.
In April, Germany's governing coalition agreed on a draft bill that proposed that all new heating systems installed in households must run on 65 per cent renewable energy from 2024.

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