By Asif Shahzad (Reuters) -Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested on Tuesday by an anti-graft agency on corruption charges. Government officials alleged that Khan and his wife received land worth millions of dollars as a bribe from a real estate tycoon through a charitable trust. Khan and his aides have denied any wrongdoing. …
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By Qiaoyi Li and Kevin Yao BEIJING (Reuters) -New Chinese bank loans tumbled far more sharply than expected in April, adding to worries that the economy’s post-pandemic recovery is losing steam and putting pressure on the central bank to ease policy. While some moderation in lending had been expected after a record first quarter, the …
By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Germany led calls urging caution against targeting China under new European Union sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine during a first discussion among the bloc’s 27 countries on proposed new restrictions, five diplomatic sources said. The EU is discussing its 11th package of sanctions since Russia invaded Ukraine, meant …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – The Group of Seven (G7) summit in Japan next week is not seeking to forge an alliance against China, though there is debate on implementing targeted controls on investments to the Asian giant, a German government source said on Thursday. There was wide consensus that the focus of the summit should be …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will visit South Korea on May 21 and hold a summit with President Yoon Suk Yeol, news agency Yonhap reported on Thursday. The report also said Scholz will visit the Demilitarized Zone separating the Koreas during his trip. (Reporting by Hyunsu Yim; Editing by Toby Chopra)
(Reuters) – Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders on Thursday urged restraint and peaceful resolution of disputes in the South China Sea and said a surge in missile tests by North Korea was a threat to regional peace. A post-summit statement issued by chair Indonesia said the leaders welcomed efforts to conclude work on …
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By David Kirton and James Pomfret SHENZHEN/HONG KONG (Reuters) -China sentenced lawyer and prominent rights activist Guo Feixiong to a prison term of eight years on Thursday, with diplomats from several countries saying they were barred from the trial in the southern city of Guangzhou. The sentence follows terms of more than a decade in …
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By James Pomfret and Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -A Hong Kong newspaper on Thursday scrapped a satirical cartoon after a decades-long run following a series of complaints by authorities, the cartoonist said, in what was seen as the latest blow to media freedom in the China-ruled city. The Ming Pao newspaper said in a …
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By Kate Lamb LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia (Reuters) -Southeast Asia’s ASEAN grouping will not give up trying to end violence in fellow member Myanmar even though the ruling military there has made no progress on a peace plan it agreed with the bloc two years ago, Indonesia said on Thursday. Frustration has mounted among some members …
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TBILISI (Reuters) -Armenia and Azerbaijan blamed each other for an exchange of fire in a border area on Thursday in which Azerbaijan said one of its soldiers was killed. The clashes come amid an intensification of diplomatic talks between the two South Caucasus rivals aimed at bringing them back from the brink of another all-out …
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