By Katie Paul NEW YORK (Reuters) -The oversight board for Facebook’s parent company Meta Platforms on Thursday said Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen should be suspended from the social media site for six months for posting a video violating rules against violent threats. The board, which is funded by Meta but operates independently, said the …
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MANILA (Reuters) – The Asian Development Bank approved on Thursday a $1 billion loan to help one of Philippines’ largest cities procure a fleet of more than 1,000 electric and Euro-5 standard diesel buses, in an important step towards modernising the country’s ageing public transport system. The loan will also fund the construction of about …
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By Tim Kelly and Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) – A Japanese political party leader and unabashed populist who admires former U.S. President Donald Trump has called for Japan to have a say in how U.S. nuclear weapons might be used in its defence. Nobuyuki Baba is hoping to shift Japanese politics to the right by …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Dry and warm weather is forecast across large chunks of Australia through the southern hemisphere winter and into spring, the Bureau of Meteorology said on Thursday. Hot and dry weather is associated with the El Nino weather pattern, which the bureau earlier this month said had a 70% chance of developing this …
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(Reuters) – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has stopped using Facebook to communicate with the public in favour of Telegram, switching to what he called a “better” application amid an ongoing case over whether he violated Meta Platforms’ rules. The self-styled strongman, who has led Cambodia for nearly four decades, has been accused by human …
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By Hyun Young Yi SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean shoppers are snapping up sea salt and other items as worry grows about their safety with Japan due to dump more than 1 million metric tons of treated radioactive water from a wrecked nuclear power plant into the sea. The water was mainly used to cool …
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(Reuters) – Sri Lanka announced a restructuring plan for its massive domestic debt on Thursday to meet targets set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and aim to turn around its economy, which has been hammered by a financial crisis. The island nation is asking foreign investors in its international sovereign bonds to take a …
By Michael Martina and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States expects a greater partnership with India in the South China Sea, where China has been at the center of numerous territorial disputes with regional countries, the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia said on Wednesday. The United States and India declared themselves “among the …
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PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech government called Russia a direct threat and China a systemic rival in a new security strategy, approved by the cabinet on Wednesday, reflecting what it called the end of a period of peace and stability in Europe seen since the end of the Cold War. The central European NATO and …
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By Katherine Masters NEW YORK (Reuters) – Republican leaders of two House committees are requesting United States Postal Service data on retailers’ goods shipped from China under an exemption in U.S. trade law that excludes some packages worth $800 or less from tariffs. The exemption, known as the de minimis rule, has earned growing scrutiny …
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