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By Jessie Pang and David Kirton HONG KONG/SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) -Typhoon Ragasa, the world’s most powerful tropical cyclone this year, struck the southern Chinese city of Yangjiang on Wednesday after killing 17 people in Taiwan and lashing Hong Kong with ferocious winds and heavy rains. The typhoon was tracking towards Maoming, one of China’s biggest …

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SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s defence ministry and its U.S. counterpart shared the view that there had been significant progress in meeting conditions for a transfer of wartime operational control, a ministry official said on Wednesday. Currently, the U.S. would command allied troops in the event of war on the Korean peninsula, but South Korea has …

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BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thai authorities rushed to contain a massive sinkhole near a hospital in central Bangkok that disrupted utilities and traffic, officials said on Wednesday.  The 50-metre deep (164 feet) sinkhole extended about 900 square metres in front of the Vajira Hospital, halting traffic.  Footage on social media showed the road slowly sinking as water …

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(Reuters) -A barrier lake in Taiwan’s mountainous and sparsely populated east coast county of Hualien burst on Tuesday as the outer edges of Super Typhoon Ragasa pounded the island bringing heavy rainfall, killing 15 people so far in a flood. Here are some facts about the lake. WHAT IS A BARRIER LAKE? Barrier lakes are …

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SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s drug watchdog said on Tuesday it would seek information from relevant companies after U.S. President Donald Trump linked the use of Tylenol by pregnant women to autism, a claim that is unsupported by scientific evidence. The drug regulator said it would review the opinions and documents provided by the companies. On …

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By Jasper Ward (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he believes that U.S. President Donald Trump could help change Chinese President Xi Jinping’s stance on Russia’s war in Ukraine. “I think that President Trump can change the attitude of Xi Jinping to this war, because China, we don’t feel that China wants to …

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By Saeed Shah (Reuters) -Pakistan’s sharp decline in poverty has stalled in recent years due to economic shocks and a lack of structural reforms, the World Bank said on Tuesday. The international lender said that between 2001 and 2015, a wave of urbanization helped reduce the national poverty rate from 64% to 22% by 2019, …

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