By Ju-min Park and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea has delivered its proposals on a trade deal to the U.S., including its request for a currency swap line, and is waiting for a response, a presidential adviser said on Thursday, as he reaffirmed the government’s will to finalise a deal this month. Washington had …
By Adrian Portugal and Eloisa Lopez BOGO, Philippines (Reuters) -Philippine authorities said on Thursday that search and rescue operations in quake-hit Cebu province have ended, as the current death toll of 72 was not expected to go much higher and missing people had been accounted for. Attention has now turned to delivering aid to survivors …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) -The Papua New Guinea cabinet has approved a defence treaty with Australia, Prime Minister James Marape said on Thursday, as Canberra seeks to block China from expanding its security presence in the Pacific. Under the Pukpuk defence treaty, Australia and Papua are obliged to come to each other’s aid if attacked. “Australia has …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Thursday ordered a crackdown on anti-Chinese and anti-foreigner rallies he said are harming the country’s image and the economy, live TV showed. Far-right groups have been holding anti-Chinese rallies, some specifically targeting the Chinese Communist Party, since before the government started allowing visa-free entry to tourists …
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KABUL (Reuters) -Cell phone and internet services were restored in Afghanistan on Wednesday, local residents said, some 48 hours after diplomatic and industry sources said connectivity was abruptly cut on the orders of the Taliban administration. The cell phone services of Roshan and Etisalat companies, the foreign-owned biggest providers, came back to life in the …
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HANOI (Reuters) -The death toll in Vietnam from Typhoon Bualoi and the floods it triggered has risen to 36, according to a Thursday report from the government’s disaster management agency. Bualoi made landfall on Monday in northern central Vietnam, bringing huge sea swells, strong winds and heavy rains that also left 21 people missing and …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -Laotian President Thongloun Sisoulith will visit North Korea at the invitation of leader Kim Jong Un for celebrations commemorating the country’s ruling party on October 10, state news agency KCNA announced on Thursday. The visit would be a rare trip by a foreign head of state to North Korea, which is under heavy …
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By Ruma Paul, Poppy McPherson and Devjyot Ghoshal COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) -After Ajib Bahar’s six-month-old son fell sick last year in Myanmar’s war-torn Rakhine state, the 38-year-old Rohingya mother said she had no medicine or food to give him. The boy died in her arms. “My children cried all night from hunger. I boiled …
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By Tom Polansek and Trevor Hunnicutt CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that soybeans would be a major topic of discussion when he meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in four weeks. “The Soybean Farmers of our Country are being hurt because China is, for ‘negotiating’ reasons only, not buying,” Trump wrote …
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By Saeed Shah KABUL (Reuters) -The Taliban have ordered internet and mobile phone data services to be cut across Afghanistan, diplomatic and industry sources said on Tuesday, as residents and monitoring services reported no connectivity and disruption to flights and financial services. The Taliban administration offered no immediate explanation for the outage and could not …
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