(Reuters) – Mountainous Nepal, where six people were killed in a helicopter crash on Tuesday, has a history of deadly air crashes. Below are details of plane and helicopter crashes this century in the Himalayan country, where several airlines fly to small airports in remote hills and mountains shrouded in clouds and cut off from …
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By Yew Lun Tian and Karen Lema (Reuters) – China’s foreign minister Qin Gang will not attend a diplomatic gathering in Indonesia this week for health reasons, a spokesman for his ministry said on Tuesday. Top diplomat Wang Yi would represent China at the meetings in Jakarta instead, the spokesman, Wang Wenbin, told a regular …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said on Tuesday that a U.S. spy plane entered the country’s economic water zone eight times on Monday, state media KCNA reported. (Reporting by Hyunsu Yim; Editing by Chris Reese)
By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea accused the United States on Monday of violating its airspace by conducting surveillance flights and warned that, while Pyongyang was exercising restraint, such flights may be shot down. Provocative military actions by the United States were bringing the Korean peninsula closer to a nuclear conflict, an unnamed spokesperson …
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(Reuters) – Torrential rain across northern India has killed at least 22 people, as well as causing landslides and flash floods in the region, authorities and local media said on Monday. Schools in New Delhi were closed after heavy rains lashed the national capital over the weekend, and authorities in the Himalayan states of Himachal …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China and the Solomon Islands on Monday signed a deal on police cooperation as part of an upgrade of their relations to a “comprehensive strategic partnership”, four years after the Pacific nation switched ties from Taiwan to China. The police cooperation pact was among nine deals signed after Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s Foxconn said on Monday it had withdrawn from a joint venture with conglomerate Vedanta, in a blow to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chipmaking plans. Here is a timeline of how events have unfolded since the signing of the $19.5 billion joint venture: * Feb. 14, 2022: Foxconn partners with …
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By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka is likely to discuss energy, power and port projects during a presidential visit to New Delhi next week, the foreign minister said on Monday, as India tries to push forward stalled initiatives with its crisis-hit neighbour. India’s support was critical for Sri Lanka last year after it …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Ministry of Emergency Management said in a meeting that it would take action to prevent mining accidents being covered up and to crack down on illegal mining, state media said on Monday. State media reported in late June that the Jingcheng iron ore mine in northern China’s Shanxi province had concealed …
TASHKENT (Reuters) -Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev was re-elected with 87.1% of the vote on Sunday, the Central Election Commission said on Monday, citing preliminary results paving his way to another seven years in power. Mirziyoyev, who has lead Central Asia’s most populous nation since 2016, called a snap election after changing the constitution through a …
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