TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan is tracking Chinese activities for any early warning signs but cannot answer hypothetical questions about whether there will be a repeat of last year’s war games following Taiwan’s national day, the defence minister said on Friday. Taiwan, formally called the Republic of China, celebrates its national day next Friday with a keynote …
By Dewi Kurniawati and Gayatri Suroyo JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia’s nuclear agency is still determining the size of the area affected by radioactive contamination linked to a scrap metal plant, with 10 points in an industrial zone near Jakarta found with high levels of exposure, officials said on Thursday. The contamination was first detected in a …
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By Tim Kelly and Joseph Campbell TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan stands a good chance of having its first woman prime minister or its youngest leader in the modern era after a vote on Saturday to pick the head of the nation’s ruling party. The front-runners in the potentially historic Liberal Democratic Party election are conservative nationalist …
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkey may work with the United States and South Korea for its second planned nuclear power plant, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Thursday, adding this may be in the form of a trilateral model. Ankara has said it was in talks with Russia, China, Canada and South Korea on possible new nuclear …
BERLIN (Reuters) -The staff of Afghanistan’s consulate in Bonn resigned this week in protest at Germany’s decision to accredit two representatives appointed by the Taliban government, denouncing the move as a threat to sensitive information about Afghans living in Germany. Only Russia has so far recognised the Taliban government that seized power in August 2021 …
By Stanley Widianto SIDOARJO, Indonesia (Reuters) -Rescuers were racing against time on Thursday to extricate some 60 teenagers trapped under the remains of an Islamic boarding school that collapsed earlier this week due to foundation failure, disaster authorities said. The Al Khoziny school, located in the East Java town of Sidoarjo some 480 miles east …
By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -At least eight people have been killed in four days of violent protests in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, Pakistani officials said on Thursday, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif set up a committee of senior officials to resolve the ongoing clashes. Only limited information has so far reached the outside world about the …
By Adrian Portugal BOGO, Philippines (Reuters) -In front of Juvy Ytang lay 11 caskets— all victims of a landslide triggered by a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake on Tuesday in the central Philippines. Among them was her 17-year-old daughter, Lady Jane, who died saving her family, one of at least 72 people killed in the quake that …
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) -Amid the lights, kite-flying and gatherings to celebrate Nepal’s 15-day festival of Dashain this year, the homes of families such as the Chaulagains are shrouded in grief for their son, killed in the country’s worst civil unrest in recent memory. “Dashain is supposed to be filled with happiness, but this year I only …
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By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) -If Russia defeats Ukraine it will embolden China’s moves towards Taiwan and Taipei hopes that Kyiv emerges victorious, a senior uniformed Taiwanese military officer said this week during a rare visit to Europe, drawing an angry response from Beijing. Taiwan, which China views as its own territory, has found an …
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