Dec 10 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he was scheduling a phone call for Thursday with Thailand and Cambodia regarding the conflict between the two Southeast Asian countries. “I think I can get them to stop fighting,” Trump told reporters Wednesday. “I think I’m scheduled to speak to them tomorrow.” (Reporting …
BEIJING, Dec 11 (Reuters) – A proposed pipeline to carry gas from Siberia in Russia to China requires “tremendous work, jobs and negotiations,” a senior Chinese researcher said on Thursday. In the last few years, Moscow has pushed hard to finalise a deal with Beijing to build the second Power of Siberia pipeline and in …
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SINGAPORE, Dec 11 (Reuters) – The deadly storms that devastated Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand in late November were “supercharged” by higher sea temperatures and made worse by rapid deforestation, scientists said in a study published on Thursday. Tropical Cyclone Senyar devastated large parts of Southeast Asia after forming in the Malacca Strait, killing …
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By Panu Wongcha-um, Orathai Sriring and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK/PHNOM PENH, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Thailand and Cambodia traded accusations of targeting civilians in artillery and rocket attacks on Wednesday, as U.S. President Donald Trump said he would try to intervene to stop the fighting and salvage a ceasefire he brokered earlier this year. Clashes raged …
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KYIV, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday following a report from the head of Kyiv’s foreign intelligence service that Russia and China were taking steps to intensify cooperation. Zelenskiy said the steps involved shifts by Russia to give up aspects of its sovereignty to Beijing. “We … note that China …
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Dec 10 (Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 struck off the east coast of Honshu, Japan, on Wednesday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said. The quake was at a depth of 31 km, EMSC said. It earlier put the magnitude at 6.5 and depth at 57 km. There were no immediate reports of damage …
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ASTANA, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Kazakhstan said on Wednesday it would redirect some oil from its Kashagan field to China and other routes after a Ukrainian drone attack last month on the Caspian Pipeline Consortium’s Black Sea terminal in Russia. The decision was announced by the energy ministry after Reuters reported earlier this week that …
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MOSCOW, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin told Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto on Wednesday that Moscow was pleased with the developing military ties between the two countries and ready to help Jakarta in the field of nuclear energy. Putin, hosting Prabowo in the Kremlin, said he also wanted to talk about what he …
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By Daphne Psaledakis and John Geddie WASHINGTON/TOKYO, Dec 10 (Reuters) – The United States has for the first time criticised China for aiming radars at Japanese military aircraft during a training exercise last week, an incident over which the Asian neighbours have given differing accounts as tensions escalate. The run-in near Japan’s Okinawa islands comes …
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By Devjyot Ghoshal BANGKOK, Dec 10 (Reuters) – In July, it took a call from U.S. President Donald Trump and the threat of crushing tariffs to halt five days of fierce fighting between Thailand and Cambodia. This week, border clashes reignited, ending the Trump-backed ceasefire. Thailand has drawn a clear line: tariffs must not be …
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