BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell will visit China next week, continuing a flurry of trips to Beijing by senior European officials. Borrell will visit China from April 13 to 15, EU foreign affairs spokesman Peter Stano said on Thursday. French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der …
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NEW DELHI/BEIJING (Reuters) -India and China broke into fresh diplomatic sparring on Thursday, accusing each other of creating visa hassles for their journalists posted in New Delhi and Beijing. The exchange came days after India objected to China renaming or “standardizing” names of 11 locations in the eastern state of Arunchal Pradesh, which China calls …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – There is no such thing as illegal trafficking of fentanyl between China and Mexico, China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday, responding to a letter from the Mexican president asking Beijing to help limit illicit flows of the deadly drug. China has not been notified by Mexico about any seizure of fentanyl from …
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(Refiles to correct coding for media clients, no other changes) By Adrian Portugal and Lisa Marie David MANILA (Reuters) -Philippines toy maker David Tan is flooded with orders from grieving pet owners who want to memorialise their dogs, cats, hamsters and rabbits with stuffed toys or ‘plushies’. Tan and a team of 20 employees use …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Separatist rebels in Indonesia’s Papua region who are holding a New Zealand pilot hostage are prepared to drop a demand that Jakarta recognise the independence of the area before they could consider freeing him, a rebel spokesperson said on Thursday. Susi Air pilot Phillip Mehrtens was abducted by the West Papua Liberation …
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(Reuters) – Fierce fighting between the Myanmar military and armed ethnic rebels has forced about 5,000 people to flee across the country’s border into Thailand this week, officials and media said on Thursday. The clashes broke out when rebels in the southern Karen state attacked a military border guard outpost, according to reports in Thailand’s …
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By Ben Blanchard and Liz Lee TAIPEI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Taiwan is keeping watch on a Chinese aircraft carrier but does not expect a large escalation in tensions, the government said on Thursday, after China denounced a meeting between Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy – the third highest ranking official in …
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China accounted for more than two thirds of the world’s proposed new coal-fired power by the end of 2022, with 366 gigawatts (GW) of additional capacity either being planned or under construction, research showed on Thursday. U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres has urged countries to stop building new plants and phase out …
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By Michael Martina and David Brunnstrom SIMI VALLEY, California (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy hosted Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in California on Wednesday, becoming the most senior U.S. figure to meet a Taiwanese leader on U.S. soil in decades and stressed the need to accelerate arms deliveries to Taiwan in the face of …
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By Michelle Nichols and Charlotte Greenfield UNITED NATIONS/KABUL (Reuters) -U.N. chief Antonio Guterres condemned on Wednesday a ban by Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities on Afghan women working for the United Nations, calling it “an intolerable violation of the most basic human rights” that should be immediately revoked. The United Nations has told some 3,300 Afghan staff …
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