JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s football association (PSSI) on Thursday picked Erick Thohir, a senior cabinet minister and a former chairman of Inter Milan, as its new chief, months after suffering one of the world’s deadliest stadium stampedes. The October disaster at the Kanjuruhan stadium in Malang, East Java, killed 135 people and prompted widespread concerns …
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(Reuters) – Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said Japan will invite his Ukrainian counterpart to the Group of Seven (G7) foreign ministers’ meeting to be held in Germany on Feb. 18, Kyodo reported on Thursday. As the organiser of the meeting and the chair of G7 summit this year, Japan is also preparing to host …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – The flight of suspected Chinese surveillance balloons has shown that Japan and Taiwan need to share “critical” intelligence about potential common aerial threats, a senior defence policymaker for Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party said. “We don’t have those bilateral relations with Taiwan, so we don’t cooperate on that, but Japan’s government will …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – An Indonesian military court in the restive Papua region this week handed down jail sentences to four soldiers over their roles in the brutal murder of four civilians, a court document showed. The victims had been trying to buy weapons from the soldiers last August, but when the deal went awry they …
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By Hyonhee Shin and Hyeyeon Kim SEOUL (Reuters) – Every day, 71-year-old Park Gyung-sun delivers flowers, documents and other packages around Seoul – a job popular among senior citizens who are entitled to ride the city’s subways for free. The work, dubbed “silver delivery” in South Korea, earns Park, a former market stall owner, up …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea released its latest defence white paper on Thursday, describing North Korea as its “enemy” for the first time in six years and reporting an increase in Pyongyang’s stockpile of weapons-grade plutonium. The biennial white paper offers a glimpse into the reclusive North’s growing arsenal of nuclear weapons …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean prosecutors on Thursday requested an arrest warrant for the head of the main opposition Democratic Party, Lee Jae-myung, in an investigation into development projects and bribery allegations. Lee, a former Democratic presidential candidate, is accused of being in breach of his duty over losses of 489.5 billion won ($382 million) run …
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By Charlotte Greenfield and Mohammad Yunus Yawar KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – In a chilly classroom in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban movement, teenage girls pore over Islamic texts as the disembodied voice of a male scholar emanates from a loud speaker. Pupils take turns to email questions to the …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – An investigation by Japan’s government, conducted on request by parliament, found there were no media leaks by government officials on the selection of the nominee for next central bank governor, a ruling party lawmaker said on Thursday. The Nikkei newspaper reported on Friday the government was expected to appoint academic Kazuo Ueda …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States hopes China will not use any visits by U.S. lawmakers to Taiwan as an excuse for military action, a senior U.S. diplomat said on Wednesday, adding that all countries should warn Beijing against conflict over the island. U.S.-China relations were rocked last August by a visit by Nancy Pelosi, …
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