By Hanna Rantala BERLIN (Reuters) – South Korean star Jeon Do-yeon drew on her own insecurities as a parent to play a single mother and professional killer in the upcoming action thriller “Kill Boksoon”, she told Reuters ahead of the movie’s premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. Jeon plays Boksoon, a highly skilled contract assassin …
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By Hyunsu Yim and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea launched a long-range ballistic missile into the sea off Japan’s west coast on Saturday after warning of a strong response to upcoming military drills by South Korea and the United States. Japanese authorities said the missile plunged into waters inside Japan’s exclusive economic zone more …
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By Carien du Plessis JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa was due to launch a joint naval exercise with Russia and China on Friday, a move it is calling routine but which has fuelled domestic criticism and fears the drills will endanger important relations with Western partners. World powers are vying for influence in Africa amid …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – The Group of Seven foreign ministers on Saturday condemned “in the strongest terms” North Korea’s launch of a long-range balistic missile into the sea off Japan’s west coast, saying it required a unified response from the international community. “This act is in blatant violation of UN Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs), and threatens …
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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan and China will hold security talks next week, Japanese foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said after meeting his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. The agreement to hold the security talks, the first to be held in four years, came after Hayashi and China’s top diplomat Wang …
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(Reuters) – The White House will meet senior Taiwan officials next week in Washington for talks meant to be private to avoid an angry reaction from China, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. Foreign Minister Joseph Wu and National Security Adviser Wellington Koo would lead the delegation, the newspaper said, citing five people familiar with …
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MANILA (Reuters) -Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Saturday that the country “will not lose an inch” of territory, his remarks coming on the heels of continuing maritime tensions with Beijing in the South China Sea. The Southeast Asian nation this week protested what it called as Beijing’s “aggressive activities” that have stoked a …
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By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States said on Friday it had successfully concluded recovery efforts off South Carolina to collect sensors and other debris from a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon shot down by a U.S. fighter jet on Feb. 4, and investigators are now analyzing its “guts.” But U.S. and Canadian authorities also …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Paraguayan President Mario Abdo on Saturday sought to calm jitters that an election in April could see his country ditch long-standing ties with Taiwan in favour of China, saying at the end of a Taipei trip that nobody would dare to end relations. Paraguay is one of only 14 countries to have …
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By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Myanmar’s pro-democracy forces want the United States to issue stronger sanctions against the junta that seized power in the country two years ago and increase funding for pro-democratic forces, the parallel civilian government’s foreign minister told Reuters on Friday Zin Mar Aung of the National Unity Government (NUG), an …
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