By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron said France’s position on Taiwan had not changed and that he favoured the current “status quo” in respect of the island, after he was asked to clarify comments that prompted a backlash in the United States and Europe. In an interview with news outlet Politico and …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China wants to start building a lunar base using soil from the moon in five years, Chinese media reported, with the ambitious plan kicking off as soon as this decade. More than 100 Chinese scientists, researchers and space contractors recently met at a conference in the central Chinese city of Wuhan …
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MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines will pursue its appeal questioning the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) jurisdiction and authority to investigate killings during former President Rodrigo Duterte’s ‘war on drugs’, its top lawyer said on Wednesday. The remarks come after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said last month he would cut off contact with the ICC after …
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By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL (Reuters) – Defence has received the largest share of funds in Afghanistan’s budget as the Taliban government aims to boost forces by a third and build anti-aircraft missile capacity, the army chief told Reuters in a rare interview to foreign media. The defence ambitions of the Taliban, which took over …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping inspected his country’s Southern Theatre Command navy on Tuesday and stressed the need to deepen military training and preparation, state media reported. During his visit, Xi said it was necessary to speed up the transformation and construction of the armed forces and comprehensively raise their level of modernization, …
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By Sarah Wu TAIPEI (Reuters) – Formally named on Wednesday by Taiwan’s ruling party as its candidate in a presidential poll due in January, Vice President William Lai urged people to “choose democracy” just a day after China ended military drills around the self-ruled island. Infuriated by Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting with U.S. House …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea has reached an agreement to lend the United States 500,000 rounds of 155mm artillery shells that could give Washington greater flexibility to supply Ukraine with ammunition, a South Korean newspaper reported on Wednesday. The DongA Ilbo newspaper cited unidentified government sources as saying South Korea decided to “lend” …
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By Idrees Ali and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Top defense and diplomatic officials of the United States and Philippines agreed on Tuesday to complete a road map in coming months for the delivery of U.S. defense assistance to the Southeast Asian nation over the next five to 10 years. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said …
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China’s coastal sea levels hit their highest on record in 2022, and have increased by an average of 3.5 millimetres (0.14 inch) per year since they were first measured in 1980, a government official said on Wednesday. Coastal sea levels last year were 94 mm higher than the 1993-2011 average, and have …
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KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s Taliban administration has said forbidding Afghan women from working for the United Nations was an “internal issue,” after the global organisation expressed alarm at the decision and said it would review its operations there. In the Taliban administration’s first statement on the decision since the U.N. acknowledged hearing of the new …
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