NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Cyclone Biparjoy made landfall in India’s Gujarat coast near Pakistan border late on Thursday evening, India weather office said, as strong winds and heavy rain lashed coastal areas of the two countries. “Landfall process is continuing and by midnight it will be completely over the land. Part of the eye (of …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – The so-called Chinese “secret police station” on South Korea’s Jeju Island does not exist and media reports of such a place have no basis in fact and are “deliberate speculation”, China’s consulate in Jeju said on Thursday. “We are strongly dissatisfied with and strongly oppose such inaccurate reports,” the consulate said in …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States targeted North Korea’s missile development in fresh sanctions, issuing the punitive action after South Korea earlier on Thursday said its neighbor fired two short-range missiles. The South Korean military said North Korea fired two short-range missiles off its east coast on Thursday, less than an hour after Pyongyang warned …
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By Magali Druscovich and Sheila Dang (Reuters) – To make sense of the unprecedented events of Jan. 6, 2021, Vitus “V” Spehar did what no traditional journalist would do – crawl under a desk and begin recording a video for TikTok. Like others who watched on TV as the storming of the U.S. Capitol unfolded, …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -Several thousand South Korean and U.S. troops took part in joint live-fire exercises on Thursday, in a show of force after North Korea’s failed attempt last month to launch a spy satellite ratcheted up tensions in the region. The drills, overseen by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, are also …
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(Reuters) – Officials from Afghanistan’s Taliban administration travelled to Norway this week for meetings with civil society and diplomats at a peace forum, the Norwegian foreign minister said on Thursday. The visit took place amidst a severe humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan following 20 years of war and as many countries have pulled back on aid …
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By Sakura Murakami and John Geddie TOKYO (Reuters) -The Pacific island nation of Palau has asked the United States to step up patrols of its waters after several incursions by Chinese vessels into its exclusive economic zone, President Surangel Whipps Jr. told Reuters in an interview. Whipps Jr. said he would also welcome a bigger …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Kremlin aide urged the Russian government on Thursday to adopt legislation allowing foreign flagged vessels to use the Northern Sea Route (NSR), which Moscow wants to turn into a new Suez Canal. The NSR runs from Murmansk near Russia’s border with Norway eastwards to the Bering Strait near Alaska. Although the …
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By Ananda Teresia and Kate Lamb JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Constitutional Court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit seeking a change to the country’s election ballot system, clearing a potential complication and allaying fears of political interference in an election just eight months away. Indonesia, the world’s third-largest democracy, is set to hold simultaneous legislative and …
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By Humeyra Pamuk, David Brunnstrom and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Wednesday played down expectations of any breakthrough from the first trip by a U.S. Secretary of State to China in five years, after a tense call with China’s foreign minister ahead Antony Blinken’s visit to Beijing next week. Chinese foreign minister …
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