SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) -Tang Renjian, China’s former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, was sentenced to death with reprieve for bribery at a court in Jilin province on Sunday, according to state-run news agency Xinhua. Tang took bribes including cash and property worth over 268 million yuan ($37.6 million) in various positions held from 2007 …
(Reuters) -Deportivo Alaves’s Facundo Garces was among seven players banned for a year by FIFA on Friday after the soccer governing body found that doctored documentation had been used so that they could play in an Asian Cup qualifier for Malaysia against Vietnam. FIFA’s Disciplinary Committee said the seven players – Garces, Gabriel Arrocha (Unionistas …
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) -Indian police arrested Ladakh activist Sonam Wangchuk on Friday, two days after New Delhi blamed him for violent protests demanding statehood for the Himalayan federal territory in which four people died, and suspended mobile internet services in its main city of Leh. Buildings and police vehicles were torched by angry crowds in …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un directed all resources to be used to support the country’s nuclear programme to “sharpen the nuclear shield and sword” to safeguard its national sovereignty and security, state media reported on Saturday. Kim met with key officials and scientists of North Korea’s nuclear weapons research institutes on Friday …
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DHAKA (Reuters) -Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus told the United Nations General Assembly on Friday that the Rohingya refugee crisis is on the brink of collapse as international aid dries up, urging immediate global action to prevent “a catastrophic situation.” Bangladesh is now sheltering about 1.3 million Rohingya, most of whom fled a brutal 2017 …
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MANILA (Reuters) -The death toll from a tropical storm that swept across the central Philippines and southern Luzon has risen to 10, disaster officials said on Friday, as the country’s north continued to recover from the impact of a super typhoon. Government work and classes in many parts of the country, including in Metro Manila, …
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(Reuters) -A fire at South Korea’s data infrastructure centre on Friday interrupted dozens of online government services including websites and email, according to media reports. The battery fire at the National Information Resources Service began about 8:15 p.m. in Daejeon, about 140 kilometres (86 miles) south of Seoul, Yonhap and The Chosun daily reported, citing …
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By Joseph Campbell, Fabian Hamacher and Ann Wang HUALIEN, Taiwan (Reuters) -Rescue workers in Taiwan battled through thick mud on Friday, looking for seven people still missing after Super Typhoon Ragasa this week sent a wall of water into a small town on the east coast. The number killed in the flooding rose by one …
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(Corrects day sanctions are to be reimposed to Saturday, paragraph 2) UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations Security Council will vote on Friday on a resolution proposed by Russia and China to delay the reimposition of sanctions on Iran for six months, but diplomats said it was unlikely to pass. All U.N. sanctions on Iran …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) -An Indonesian government agency running President Prabowo Subianto’s massive free meals programme said on Friday its lack of oversight led to a recent outbreak of food poisoning among thousands of school children. Concerns have mounted over the standards and supervision of the multi-billion-dollar initiative. Nearly 6,000 people have fallen ill after eating the …
