By Anton Bridge and Tom Bateman TOKYO (Reuters) – In one of Keiko Kawano’s recent classes, more than a dozen Tokyo art school students held mirrors to their faces, stretching the sides of their mouths upward with their fingers: they were practising how to smile. It’s not something most people would think to pay for …
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KABUL (Reuters) – Around 60 Afghan girls were hospitalisd after being poisoned at their school in nothern Afghanistan, police said on Monday. The poisoning, which targeted a girls’ school in the Afghan province of Sar-e Pol, comes after intense scrutiny of girls’ education in the war-torn nation since the Taliban took over and barred most …
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By Jessie Pang and Ben Blanchard HONG KONG/TAIPEI (Reuters) – Hong Kong police said they detained 23 people on Sunday for “breaching public peace” and arrested a 53-year-old woman for “obstructing police officers” as authorities ramped up security for the 34th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Restrictions in Hong Kong have stifled what …
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By YP Rajesh NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Investigators are probing an electronic track management system that they suspect malfunctioned and caused India’s deadliest train crash in more than two decades, railways officials said on Sunday. At least 275 people were killed on Friday when a passenger train hit a stationary freight train, went off the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Chinese warship came within 150 yards (137 meters) of a U.S. destroyer in the Taiwan Strait in “an unsafe manner,” U.S. military officials said, as China blamed the United States for “deliberately provoking risk” in the region. U.S. and Canadian navies on Saturday were conducting a joint exercise in the strait, …
(Reuters) – A senior Armenian official on Sunday said there was a chance that a peace deal could be signed with neighbouring Azerbaijan by the end of 2023, ending a decades-old conflict, Russia’s TASS news agency said. Moscow, Washington and the European Union are all trying separately to help ensure permanent peace between Azerbaijan and …
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By Jatindra Dash and YP Rajesh BAHANAGA, India (Reuters) -Indian rescue workers completed operations on Sunday after the country’s deadliest rail crash in more than two decades, with signal failure emerging as the likely cause of an accident that killed at least 275 people. The death toll from Friday’s crash was revised down from 288 …
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By Andrew Hayley BEIJING (Reuters) -A landslide at a mine in China’s southwestern Sichuan province on Sunday killed 19 people, Chinese state media outlet CCTV reported. The landslide occurred at around 6 a.m. (2200 GMT) in a mountainous area near Leshan city in the south of the province. The mountainside collapsed onto the production and …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany will send two warships to the Indo-Pacific in 2024, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Sunday, amid rising tensions between China and Taiwan and over the disputed South China Sea. Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Asia’s most important security conference, Pistorius said countries needed to stand up for the …
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By Chen Lin and Kanupriya Kapoor SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu told Asia’s top security summit on Sunday that conflict with the United States would be an “unbearable disaster” but that his country sought dialogue over confrontation. Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Li said the world was big enough for …
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