BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping and senior Chinese officials have sent messages of condolence to U.S. President Joe Biden and others after the passing of veteran U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday. Kissinger, who visited China more than 100 times and last met with Xi during a surprise …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – A group of 17 Thai nationals who had been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza arrived at a Bangkok airport on Thursday, Thailand’s foreign ministry told reporters. A total of 23 Thai hostages have been released in Gaza, with nine remaining in captivity. Hamas gunmen from Gaza killed 39 Thais and abducted …
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By Ben Blanchard and Andrew Silver TAIPEI/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Taiwan’s health ministry on Thursday urged the elderly, very young and those with poor immunity to avoid travel to China due to the recent increase in respiratory illnesses there, a move some experts said was ineffective to manage public health risks. The World Health Organization (WHO) last …
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By Mariya Gordeyeva SARYZHAL, Kazakhstan (Reuters) – As Russia warns of the rising risk of nuclear war, and relations with the United States sink into a deep freeze, communities close to the vast Soviet-era nuclear testing site in northern Kazakhstan have a message for leaders: “Let us be a lesson.” Hundreds of tests were carried …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan again reported Chinese warplanes and warships around the island on Thursday, including aircraft crossing the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait, as Beijing keeps up its military activities ahead of Taiwan’s January election. Democratically governed Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, has complained for the past four years …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) -China’s leadership is too “overwhelmed” with its internal problems to consider an invasion of Taiwan, President Tsai Ing-wen said in an interview with the New York Times. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has ramped up military pressure against the island over the past four years, leading to concerns …
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By Jimin Jung and Dogyun Kim SEOUL (Reuters) – About 200 South Korean farmers who breed and raise dogs for human consumption held a rally on Thursday near the presidential office in the capital Seoul, demanding the government scrap a plan to ban the controversial centuries-old practice. Dozens of farmers, who had tried to drive …
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By Kantaro Komiya and Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan said it has asked the U.S. to suspend all non-emergency V-22 Osprey flights over its territory after one fell into the sea on Wednesday in western Japan, marking the country’s first fatal U.S. military plane crash in five years. The U.S. Air Force said the cause …
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(This Nov. 29 story has been corrected after a clarification from the the Yakushima Fisheries Cooperative that one person had been found, not three, in paragraph 5) By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) – A U.S. military aircraft carrying eight people crashed into the sea in Japan on Wednesday, killing at least one …
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By Juarawee Kittisilpa TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Thai Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara broke down in tears when he met fellow Thais released to Israel by Hamas after seven weeks of captivity and said on Wednesday he hoped for freedom soon for the remaining 13 hostages. Another two Thai workers were set free on Tuesday, bringing …
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