By Chen Lin SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore’s anti-graft agency has launched an investigation into a case involving the city-state’s transport minister, a rare high-level probe in a country that prides itself on a government free from corruption. The Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau said it was interviewing the minister, S Iswaran, who was “assisting” in a …
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By Valerie Volcovici and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. climate envoy John Kerry on Monday will become the Biden administration’s third senior official to visit China in recent weeks after trips by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. A U.S. official said on Tuesday that Kerry would visit from Monday …
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LONDON (Reuters) -A member of a people smuggling gang was jailed for nearly 13 years in a London court on Tuesday for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese men, women and children who suffocated to death as they were being smuggled into Britain. Marius Draghici was sentenced to 12 years and seven months at London’s Old …
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By Emma Farge and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber GENEVA (Reuters) -Muslim states including Iran and Pakistan on Tuesday said desecration of the Koran amounted to inciting religious hatred and called for accountability, as the U.N. rights body debated a contentious motion in the wake of a Koran burning in Sweden. The motion, brought by Pakistan in response …
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KABUL (Reuters) -The Taliban administration halted all activities by Sweden in Afghanistan on Tuesday in response to the burning of a Koran in Stockholm last month, and a major Swedish aid group said it was seeking clarification about the impact on its programmes. “After the insulting of the holy Koran and granting of permission for …
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By Jessie Pang and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong national security police on Tuesday took away exiled activist Nathan Law’s parents and brother for questioning, local media reported, one week after the police issued an arrest warrant and a bounty on Law’s head. Local media, citing unnamed sources, said Law’s relatives were taken …
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(Reuters) – Azerbaijan’s Defence Ministry said on Tuesday that Armenia fired at Azeri troops near the Armenian border, wounding one Azeri soldier. Reuters was not able to independently verify the defence ministry’s account. The defence ministry said its troops were in Lachin district, the site of a road linking Armenia to the Armenian-populated enclave of …
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By Stefanno Sulaiman and Fransiska Nangoy JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia’s coast guard said on Tuesday it seized an Iranian-flagged supertanker suspected of involvement in the illegal transshipment of crude oil, and vowed to toughen maritime patrols. The MT Arman 114 was carrying 272,569 metric tons of light crude oil, valued at 4.6 trillion rupiah ($304 million), …
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By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) -Authorities in Nepal have retrieved the bodies of all six people killed in a helicopter crash on Tuesday, including five Mexican nationals, officials said, the latest in a series of air disasters to strike the Himalayan nation. The cause of the crash near Likkhu, just northeast of the capital Kathmandu, …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – A South Korean zoo said on Tuesday it had recently welcomed the first giant panda twins to be born in the country. The twins, both female, were born at the Everland theme park near the capital Seoul on Friday, the zoo announced in a video on its YouTube channel. “This feels like …
