By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia said on Tuesday it will ban recreational vaping and tighten other aspects of e-cigarette laws in the biggest crackdown on the tobacco industry in more than a decade to try to stop an alarming rise in teenage vaping. The government aims to ban all disposable vapes, which often comes …
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(Reuters) – Japan’s defence ministry said on Tuesday it scrambled a jet fighter after spotting a suspected Chinese drone between the Japanese island of Yonaguni and Taiwan. The drone flew towards Bashi Channel that separates Taiwan from the Philippines, the ministry said in a statement. (Reporting by Eimi Yamamitsu; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
KUALA LUMPUR/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Malaysian maritime authorities were searching on Tuesday for three crew missing from a Gabon-registered tanker a day after the 26-year-old vessel caught fire in waters off the southern coast. The ship, Pablo, sailing from China to Singapore to pick up crude oil, was not carrying cargo and there were no reports …
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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian police searched the home of a British former test pilot for documents related to China’s J-16 strike fighter, Australia’s intelligence partners, and China’s biggest aviation company, a court judgment shows. The search in November was part of an investigation into Western military pilots training China’s military at a …
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By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) -British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly expects to meet China’s Vice President Han Zheng when foreign leaders visit London for King Charles’s coronation, a rare meeting between senior government officials during a low point in UK-China relations. “I suspect that I will,” Cleverly told BBC Radio on Tuesday when asked if …
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By David Dolan and Hyunsu Yim TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will visit South Korea on May 7-8 for talks with President Yoon Suk Yeol, the governments of the two nations said on Tuesday. Kishida will meet Yoon in Seoul on Sunday, Japan’s foreign ministry said. Kishida’s wife, Yuko, will also make the …
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By Jeff Mason, Trevor Hunnicutt and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden told his counterpart Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday that the U.S. commitment to the defense of its ally was “ironclad,” including in the South China Sea where Manila is under pressure from China. Marcos, on the first White House visit by a …
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By Lewis Jackson and Muyu Xu SYDNEY (Reuters) – More than three years since China first blocked a range of Australian imports in a political dispute, restrictions are easing, but reviving trade is proving more challenging than stopping it in the first place. A leaders meeting late last year set off a thaw in relations …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea has upgraded its U.S. alliance, President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Tuesday, as he briefed his cabinet on a trip to the United States which pledged more South Korean insight into nuclear planning in the event of war with North Korea. Yoon held a summit with U.S. President …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia said on Tuesday it will pay military personnel A$50,000 ($33,165) to stay beyond an initial service period, days after a review found its defence posture was “not fit for purpose” amid rising competition between the United States and China. Defence Minister Richard Marles said the number of defence personnel was 3,400 …
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