TOKYO (Reuters) -A man suspected of throwing a smoke bomb toward Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had a track record of suing the government, claiming he was unfairly barred from running in national elections, Japanese media reported on Tuesday. Ryuji Kimura filed suit in Kobe district court last June, claiming he could not run for …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – J-Hope, a member of Grammy-nominated K-pop boy band BTS, began his mandatory military service in South Korea on Tuesday, the second member of the group to do so. The singer kept a low profile as a van carrying him entered the venue for his military enlistment ceremony in the city of Wonju, …
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By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka is considering a proposal by a Chinese private company to export 100,000 endemic monkeys to China, a government minister said on Tuesday, sparking protests from animal protection groups. The island’s agriculture minister has appointed a committee to evaluate the proposal to export 100,000 toque macaques, found only …
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By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – A mountaineer from Northern Ireland died while descending from the summit of the world’s 10th highest peak and an Indian climber is missing on the same mountain, climbing officials said on Tuesday. Noel Hanna, who had climbed Mount Everest 10 times, scaled the 8,091 metres (26,545 feet) Annapurna peak …
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By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) -A Chinese national in Pakistan has denied an accusation of blasphemy levelled by fellow workers on a hydropower project who said he had insulted the Prophet Mohammad, police said on Tuesday after a court remanded him in judicial custody. Blasphemy is punishable by death in Pakistan and though no …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. federal agents arrested two New York residents for allegedly operating a Chinese “secret police station” in the Chinatown district of Manhattan on Monday in what prosecutors said was part of a crackdown on Beijing’s alleged targeting of dissidents. Lu Jianwang, 61, and Chen Jinping, 59, face charges of …
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KARUIZAWA, Japan (Reuters) – The United States is able to move forward with its relationship with China following President Joe Biden’s meeting with leader Xi Jinping last year, but that requires Beijing to make clear its own intentions, Washington’s top diplomat said on Tuesday. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made the comment at a …
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By Humeyra Pamuk and Sakura Murakami KARUIZAWA, Japan (Reuters) -The Group of Seven industrial powers drew together on Tuesday to criticise China’s coercion of Taiwan and Russia’s threat to station nuclear weapons in Belarus, promising to intensify sanctions on Moscow for its war on neighbouring Ukraine. “The strength of the solidarity between the G7 foreign …
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) -A landslide during a thunder and lightning storm on the main road through northwest Pakistan’s Khyber Pass buried more than 20 trucks on Tuesday, killing at least two people, with dozens more feared trapped, officials said. “Twenty to twenty five containers are buried in the wreckage,” Abdul Nasir Khan, deputy commissioner of the …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin on Tuesday disputed U.S. claims of a Chinese “secret police station” in New York. China maintains a policy of non-interference in other countries and these alleged police stations do not exist, Wang told a regular news briefing. U.S. federal agents arrested two New York residents for …
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