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The World in Brief from The Economist
Armenia and Azerbaijan sign peace deal; Germany bans arms sales to Israel, and more
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Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, spoke to China’s leader, Xi Jinping, and India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, to discuss his talks with America over the war in Ukraine
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