TOKYO (Reuters) -Kenzaburo Oe, who won Japan its second Nobel Prize for literature with books about pacifism and his disabled son, has died. His death, on March 3 at the age of 88, was due to old age, his publisher Kodansha said. Ten years old when Japan was defeated in World War Two, Oe was …
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By Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s rubber-stamp parliament concluded its annual meeting on Monday, during which Xi Jinping was confirmed as president for a precedent-breaking third term and installed many of his allies in top government roles. Here are key takeaways from the nearly nine-day long gathering known as the National People’s Congress (NPC): …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) -A record-breaking flood in Australia’s Queensland state was forecast to peak on Sunday, after almost 100 residents of an outback town were moved to higher ground. The flood, triggered by heavy rain over the past week, is worst in the remote Gulf Country town of Burketown, about 2,100 km (1,300 miles) northwest of …
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By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) – A fire that left thousands of Rohingya Muslims homeless in Bangladesh camps was a “planned act of sabotage”, a panel investigating the blaze said on Sunday. Nearly 2,800 shelters and more than 90 facilities including hospitals and learning centres were destroyed in the fire on March 5, leaving more …
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GENEVA (Reuters) -Discovering the origins of COVID-19 is a moral imperative and all hypotheses must be explored, the head of the World Health Organization said, in the clearest indication yet that the U.N. body remains committed to finding how the virus arose. A U.S. agency was reported by the Wall Street Journal to have assessed …
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By Yew Lun Tian and Ziyi Tang BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s parliament on Sunday approved the cabinet line-up nominated by Premier Li Qiang, who took office on Saturday in a once-in-five years reshuffle. Also during the National People’s Congress (NPC), Xi Jinping was confirmed for a third five-year term as president. Here are other key …
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By Greg Torode HONG KONG (Reuters) – General Li Shangfu, named on Sunday as China’s new defence minister, is a veteran of the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) modernisation effort – a drive that led the United States to sanction him over the acquisition of weapons from Russia. Although his new post within the Chinese system …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China named Li Shangfu, a U.S.-sanctioned general, as its new defence minister on Sunday. Li has been under U.S. sanctions since 2018 over the purchase of combat aircraft and equipment from Russia’s main arms exporter, Rosoboronexport. Li’s appointment was confirmed on Sunday after the rubber-stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress, voted overwhelmingly …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Merapi volcano erupted on Saturday, spewing hot cloud up to seven kilometres, the country’s disaster management agency said in a statement. The volcano located in Indonesia’s Yogyakarta special region erupted around 12 p.m local time (0500 GMT) and a lava flow of 1.5 km was observed, the local authority said. Residents …
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By Laurie Chen and Tony Munroe BEIJING (Reuters) -Li Qiang, the former Communist Party chief of Shanghai, took office on Saturday as China’s premier, the country’s No.2 post, putting the close ally of President Xi Jinping in charge of reviving an economy battered by three years of COVID-19 curbs. Widely perceived to be pragmatic and …
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