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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan has conveyed “strong concern” and lodged a protest against China after the Chinese Navy entered Japan’s waters near Yakushima Island on Thursday, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said. Two Chinese Coast Guard vessels also entered Japan’s territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands, which China calls Diaoyu, and attempted to approach a …

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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Thursday called for better collaboration with neighbouring Malaysia to fight what he called “discrimination” against their countries’ palm oil products, as a new European Union law threatens to dent exports of the commodity. The EU passed a law this year banning imports of commodities linked to …

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By Matt Spetalnick and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senior U.S. policy makers took aim at China on Wednesday over its approach to Latin America, accusing Beijing of breaching economic norms and urging it to do more to help combat the illegal fentanyl trade. Testifying before a House of Representatives subcommittee, Brian Nichols, assistant secretary …

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By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic and Republican U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday urged the State Department to bar Hong Kong’s chief executive, who faces U.S. sanctions, from visiting San Francisco during November’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. The United States is set to host this year’s gathering of leaders of APEC, of which Hong Kong …

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By Gul Yousafzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) -Pakistani police on Wednesday formally named former Prime Minister Imran Khan in connection with the murder by unknown gunmen of a lawyer seeking sedition proceedings against him. Police registered an “abetment to murder” case against former cricket hero Khan, 70, who faces dozens of charges since his ouster in …

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By Krishn Kaushik BAHANAGA BAZAR, India (Reuters) – Few trains stop at Bahanaga Bazar, the sleepy, small rural station in the Balasore district of Odisha state where India’s deadliest train accident in more than two decades happened. Three rooms, topped by a corrugated metal roof, and three platforms make up the station, which serves 14 …

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By Michael Martina and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will push back on China’s targeting of American companies such as memory chipmaker Micron Technology Inc, a campaign Washington considers politically motivated and unfair, U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns said on Wednesday. In May, China’s cyberspace regulator said Micron Technology would be barred …

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