By Laurie Chen and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) – Meetings between senior U.S. and Chinese officials in China this week struck an upbeat chord, with both sides agreeing to maintain communication lines, even as Beijing remains leery of more “provocative” U.S. moves and open clashes are still a risk. Statements from Washington and Beijing on …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia is expecting a severe dry season from the impact of the El Nino weather pattern, threatening harvests and raising the risks of forest fires, the head of its weather agency said on Tuesday. “Looking at the data we have, El Nino started in June and will affect almost all of Indonesia …
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By Andrea Shalal and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said on Monday recent dangerous encounters between U.S. and Chinese forces in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea reflect a growing aggressiveness by Beijing’s military that raises the risk of an error in which “somebody gets hurt.” Washington’s sharply worded warning followed …
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By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Tuesday he has upgraded the country’s alliance with the United States to one that is “nuclear-based” in the face of North Korea’s growing military threat. Yoon was referring to his talks with U.S. President Joe Biden in April on Washington’s willingness …
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By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) – The Hong Kong government said on Tuesday that it asked a court to ban a protest song in a bid to prevent people from inciting secession or insulting China’s national anthem. “Recently, the song has also been mistakenly presented as the ‘national anthem of Hong Kong’ repeatedly,” the …
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KABUL (Reuters) – The deputy governor of Afghanistan’s northern Badakhshan province was killed by a car bomb on Tuesday, the provincial spokesperson said. “Nissar Ahmad Ahmadi, with his driver, has been killed and six civilians were injured,” said Mahzudeen Ahmadi, the head of the information office of Badakshan, a province in the far north of …
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By Ryan Woo and Michael Martina BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A senior U.S. diplomat held candid and productive talks on Monday with Chinese officials, the State Department said, despite some criticism that his visit to China coincided with the anniversary of Beijing’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. The visit to Beijing by Daniel Kritenbrink, assistant secretary of state …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House said on Monday that actions by China in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea reflect a “growing aggressiveness” by Beijing’s military that raises the risk of an error where someone gets hurt. The U.S. Navy on Sunday released a video of what it called an “unsafe interaction” in the …
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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduran President Xiomara Castro is set to travel this week to China, her foreign minister said on Monday, which will be the leftist leader’s first visit to the Asian giant after establishing formal diplomatic relations with it in March. Castro’s trip marks the latest step in the two nations’ new relationship, after …
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By Jatindra Dash KHARAGPUR, India (Reuters) – The official investigation into India’s deadliest rail crash in over two decades began on Monday after preliminary findings pointed to signal failure as the likely cause for a collision that killed at least 275 people and injured 1,200. The disaster struck on Friday, when a passenger train hit …
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