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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan told China that violations of its airspace by uncrewed surveillance balloons were absolutely unacceptable, a spokesman for the government said on Wednesday. Japan’s Defence Ministry said on Tuesday that it “strongly suspects” Chinese surveillance balloons had entered Japanese territory at least three times since 2019. “As a result of further investigation …

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(Reuters) – The United States on Monday said it stood with the Philippines after Manila accused China’s coast guard of using a laser to try to disrupt a resupply mission to troops in the South China Sea. “The United States stands with our Philippine allies in the face of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) …

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(Reuters) – Russia, locked in a decades-old territorial dispute with Tokyo over a chain of Pacific islands, on Tuesday accused Japan of engaging in Russophobia and mounting “vicious attacks” over the war in Ukraine. Soviet troops seized the islands off the northern coast of Japan at the very end of World War Two. The unresolved …

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(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin talked to Azeri counterpart Ilham Aliyev and noted the importance of ensuring stability and security in the southern Caucasus region, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. Tensions are high between Azerbaijan and neighbouring Armenia over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, which has a largely ethnic Armenian population but is internationally …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s foreign ministry on Tuesday said that Erkin Tuniyaz, the governor of the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, would no longer visit Britain this week, amid a backlash from lawmakers about alleged human rights abuses in the region. Britain had said that if Tuniyaz had visited this week, officials would have been …

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