BEIJING (Reuters) – China has made it clear that the unmanned civilian airship that flew over U.S. terriory was an unexpected and isolated event, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday. “China rejects distortion and hyping up of this incident,” spokesperson Mao Ning said at a press briefing when answering a question on the Pentagon saying …
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By Jose Sanchez BELIZE CITY (Reuters) – The prime minister of Belize gave Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen a welcome diplomatic boost during her visit on Monday, underlining his nation’s support for Taiwan after rival China gained a new regional ally last month. Tsai’s visit comes a week after Honduras severed diplomatic relations with Taipei in …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will host a meeting in California on Wednesday with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen, his office said, part of a sensitive U.S. stopover that has drawn Chinese threats of retaliation. China, which claims democratically ruled Taiwan as its own territory, has repeatedly warned U.S. officials not to meet …
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(Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck Nias region of Indonesia on Monday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of 90 km (55.92 miles), EMSC said. (Reporting by Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru)
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s anti-graft agency on Monday arrested a senior tax officer on corruption charges, in a case that has sown distrust among the public against tax officials and triggered calls to boycott paying taxes. Rafael Alun Trisambodo allegedly received about $90,000 in kickbacks from taxpayers via a consultancy group he founded to resolve …
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By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines identified on Monday four more of its military bases that the United States will get access to, almost doubling the number included in a defence agreement that seeks to advance a decades-old alliance between them. The expansion of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) underlines the Philippines’ …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan and China must do everything possible to avoid war and it is the responsibility of both sides’ leaders to ensure peace, former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou told a senior Chinese official on Thursday. Ma arrived in China on Monday, the first time a former or sitting Taiwanese president has visited the country …
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By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s parliament on Monday passed sweeping legal reforms to remove the mandatory death penalty, trim the number of offences punishable by death, and abolish natural-life prison sentences, a move cautiously welcomed by rights groups. Malaysia has had a moratorium on executions since 2018, when it first promised to …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will visit China from April 5 to 7, the Chinese foreign ministry announced on Monday, a trip that immediately follows her comments that the bloc’s relations with Beijing had become strained. Von der Leyen, who is travelling to China alongside French President Emmanuel Macron, said …
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Fish have been caught more than 5 miles (8 kilometres) under the surface of the ocean for the first time ever – and filmed even deeper – by a joint Japanese-Australian scientific expedition. The expedition’s chief scientist, Professor Alan Jamieson, said on Monday that two snailfish were caught in traps set 8,022 …
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