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By John Geddie and Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) -Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Friday called for the international community to build Taiwan’s defences and agree a package of coordinated defensive, economic and political measures in support of the island “before it is too late”. In her first speech since being forced out of …

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BANGKOK (Reuters) – The United Nations plans to slash food aid to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, blaming a funding shortfall for cuts that agencies warned on Friday would deepen food insecurity and malnutrition in the world’s largest refugee settlement. About 730,000 Rohingya, a persecuted mostly Muslim minority from Myanmar’s Rakhine state, fled to Bangladesh in …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU countries have agreed to phase out COVID-19 restrictions on travellers from China that were put in place to guard against possible new coronavirus variants after China’s reopening prompted a surge in infections there. Health experts from the 27 EU members agreed at a meeting on Thursday that they would end the …

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GENEVA (Reuters) – Uyghur advocacy groups called on United Nations bodies to take action against China on Thursday over its abuses against the mainly Muslim ethnic minority, after U.N. experts this week reviewed Beijing’s rights record. During a two-day U.N. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) review in Geneva, participants asked China’s delegation …

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By Kanishka Singh and Rami Ayyub WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed Washington’s concern about certain provisions in Indonesia’s new criminal code in a call Thursday with the country’s foreign minister, Retno Marsudi, the State Department said. Indonesian lawmakers approved a new criminal code in December banning sex outside marriage and …

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By Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) – Hundreds of people in the Chinese cities of Wuhan and Dalian protested against medical benefit cuts on Wednesday in the latest display of public discontent after rare nationwide demonstrations last year over strict COVID curbs. Here is what we know about the protests. WHAT ARE THE MEDICAL INSURANCE REFORMS? …

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BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s President Xi Jinping and his Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, called on Thursday for the lifting of sanctions on Iran as an integral part of a stalled international agreement on its nuclear programme. Xi also accepted an invitation from Raisi to visit Iran and would do so at his convenience, the two leaders …

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SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has broken ground on a large greenhouse project and the development of 10,000 apartments, state media reported on Thursday, highlighting the construction projects amid foreign suspicion of food shortages. Neighbouring South Korea said on Wednesday that a food crisis appeared to be worsening in the North, and …

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