By Josh Smith, Kantaro Komiya and Hyonhee Shin SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) -North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) off its east coast on Wednesday, prompting condemnation from the U.S. as well as the leaders of South Korea and Japan who met on the sidelines of a NATO summit. The missile flew for 74 minutes to …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The State Department on Wednesday said it has no reason to doubt Microsoft’s accusation that Chinese state-linked hackers since May have secretly accessed email accounts at around 25 organizations, including U.S. government accounts, in a stealthy cyberespionage campaign. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said the agency had detected anomalous activity in June …
By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -Seven Hong Kong prison officers were arrested and suspended from work on Wednesday, the city’s Correctional Services Department said, after police said officers sexually assaulted and gang-raped a woman after a party over the weekend. The seven officers, aged in their 20s and 30s, have been suspended from their …
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By Andrew Gray and John Irish VILNIUS (Reuters) -NATO leaders sent mixed signals at their summit on Wednesday on a possible plan to open an office in Japan, which has been blocked by France and criticized by China. Asked about the plan at a press conference at the end of the summit in Vilnius, French …
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By James Pomfret, Jessie Pang (Reuters) -For Anna Kwok, a Washington-based Hong Kong activist, the imposition of a Hong Kong police bounty for her arrest has underscored the urgency of her bid for political asylum at a time of growing tensions between the United States and China. The Hong Kong native, who left the territory …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday said it had accepted a complaint against Prime Ministerial candidate Pita Limjaroenrat and his election-winning Move Forward Party over its plans to amend a law that prohibits insults of the monarchy. The court was responding to a complaint filed by a lawyer who alleged Move Forward’s policy …
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GENEVA (Reuters) -The United Nations Human Rights Council on Wednesday approved a disputed resolution on religious hatred in the wake of the burning of a Koran in Sweden, prompting concern by Western states who say it challenges long-held practices in rights protection. The resolution, introduced by Pakistan on behalf of the 57-nation Organisation of Islamic …
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By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s election commission on Wednesday recommended the Constitutional Court disqualifies prime ministerial candidate Pita Limjaroenrat as a lawmaker, dealing a major blow to the election winners on the eve of a vote on the premiership. The commission said in a statement it found merit in a …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -The German cabinet is to pass its long-promised China strategy on Thursday, two government sources told Reuters, after Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government last year ordered a review of how Germany interacts with its biggest trade partner. Scholz has repeatedly emphasised “de-risking” Germany’s relationship to China, viewed by Berlin as an increasingly assertive competitor …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China does not accept or recognise the Philippines’ South China Sea Arbitral Tribunal ruling from 2016, which concluded Beijing’s claim to almost the entire South China Sea was groundless, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Wednesday. The Philippines won a landmark arbitration case exactly seven years ago that invalidated China’s expansive claims …
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