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By Panu Wongcha-um and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s general election set for May 14 will bring new faces into the fray but is likely to be over-shadowed by old animosity between the military-royalist establishment and popular opposition parties challenging the status quo. The confrontation in the kingdom has shaped a tumultuous two decades …

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By Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand will hold elections on May 14, Election Commission Chairman Ittiporn Boonpracong told Reuters on Tuesday, a day after parliament was dissolved. The announcement come as parties step up campaigning for a nationwide electoral contest that is shaping up to be a battle between a pro-military conservative grouping, led …

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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s parliament is to meet in a special joint session on Wednesday to “take important decisions” to enforce the state’s authority, media reported, in the midst of a crisis over anti-government defiance by former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Former cricket star Khan was prime minister from 2018 until 2022, when he was …

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By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) -When Ranil Wickremesinghe took over as Sri Lanka’s president in July after a popular uprising ousted his predecessor, the South Asian island nation was engulfed in its worst economic meltdown in 75 years. Since then, Wickremesinghe has managed to a keep a lid on mass protests, improve supplies of essentials …

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By Ben Blanchard and Michael Martina TAIPEI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will make sensitive stopovers in the United States on her way to and from Central America that China’s foreign ministry condemned on Tuesday, but Taipei would not confirm a meeting with U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Taiwanese presidents routinely pass through the United …

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TAIPEI (Reuters) -Germany’s education minister said on Tuesday she was honoured to visit “esteemed partner” Taiwan but that her trip was not connected to her government’s China strategy, as Beijing said it had protested to Berlin about her “vile conduct” in going there. China views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory and has increased …

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(Reuters) -Vladimir Putin hosted his “dear friend” Xi Jinping for dinner at the Kremlin on Monday, showing off his relationship with his most powerful ally just days after an international court called for the Russian president’s arrest for war crimes in Ukraine. Washington denounced Xi’s visit, saying the timing indicated Beijing was providing Moscow with …

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