By Rupam Jain and Tom Sims NEW DELHI/BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Saturday that he and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi were committed to sealing a free trade deal between India and the European Union (EU). “It’s an important topic and I’ll get personally involved,” Scholz said after his meeting with Modi …
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MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. called for reconciliation and unity on Saturday as the Southeast Asian nation marked the 37th anniversary of the “people power” revolution that toppled his dictator father. Marcos, who was 28 years old when a helicopter whisked his family from the presidential palace in 1986, said he was …
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By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – The Democratic Party for the People, which has been a supporter of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, has opposed the government’s draft budget, signaling a potential shift in its stance, Jiji news agency reported. The DPFP, which voted for the government’s budget last year, made the decision at a …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China called for a comprehensive ceasefire in Ukraine on Friday and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he was open to considering parts of a 12-point peace plan put forward by Beijing. On the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Moscow’s ally China urged both sides to agree to a gradual de-escalation, warned against …
(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden told ABC News in an interview on Friday that the idea China would be negotiating the outcome of the Ukraine war was not rational, following the release of Beijing’s peace plan for the conflict. “(Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s applauding it, so how could it be any good?” Biden told …
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(Reuters) -China’s top diplomat Wang Yi said on Saturday that the U.S. handling of the balloon incident had been “unimaginable” and “hysterical” – an “absurd” act that had violated international norms. “There are so many balloons all over the world, so is the United States going to shoot all of them down?,” Wang, director of …
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By Ruma Paul and Rafiqur Rahman DHAKA (Reuters) – Wearing bright saris and heavy make-up, many of Bangladesh’s transgenders, or hijras, spend their days begging from people stuck in traffic and shopkeepers who give them small change in exchange for lucky blessings. The government recognised hijras as a third gender in 2013, but they …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Friday rejected a request by families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks not to enforce his decision against letting them seize $3.5 billion of frozen Afghan central bank assets to satisfy court judgments owed by the Taliban. The families, comprising more than …
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By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will tout the benefits of cooperation for Central Asian nations with deep ties to Washington’s adversaries Russia and China during a visit next week, the top State Department official for the region said on Friday. Blinken will travel to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and meet …
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KYIV (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday welcomed some elements of a Chinese proposal for a ceasefire in Russia’s war on Ukraine, but said only the country where a war is being fought should be the initiator of a peace plan. “It’s an important signal that they are preparing to take part in this theme,” …
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