TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and Vice President William Lai will each donate a month’s salary for Turkish earthquake relief efforts, the presidential office said on Thursday, adding to existing aid already sent by the island. Tsai and Lai, who is widely expected to stand for the presidency in elections due next year, “hope …
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By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Four previous Chinese spy balloon flights over the United States passed over sites that would be of interest to Beijing, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, without elaborating on whether they passed over military bases. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington was gaining more information …
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By Farah Master and Jennifer Rigby HONG KONG (Reuters) – The world should “calm down” about the possibility of new COVID-19 variants circulating in China, leading Chinese scientist George Gao said. A paper by Gao and colleagues published in the Lancet medical journal on Wednesday showed that no new variants had emerged in the initial …
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By Stephanie van den Berg, Toby Sterling and Bart H. Meijer THE HAGUE (Reuters) -International prosecutors said they had found “strong indications” Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the use in Ukraine of a Russian missile system which shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) over the east of the country in 2014. However, evidence of …
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By Ariba Shahid KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistan’s government said on Wednesday it was not planning to hike fuel prices and warned oil companies against stockpiling petrol after some consumers complained they had been unable to purchase fuel at pumps. Minister of State for Petroleum Musadik Malik told reporters the country had enough fuel to …
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By Josh Smith and Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea held a widely anticipated nighttime military parade on Wednesday, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported, an event expected to showcase the country’s latest weapons to mark the founding anniversary of its army. Commercial satellite imagery has for months shown North Korean troops practicing for a …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea staged a widely anticipated military parade to mark an army anniversary on Wednesday night, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported, with a display expected to include the reclusive country’s latest weapons. (Reporting by Soo-hyang Choi; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Netherlands will continue to hold Russia to account for the downing of passenger flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Wednesday. Rutte said it was a “bitter disappointment” that the international investigation into the downing of MH17 had ended without further prosecutions for lack …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgium charged nine people with human trafficking and money laundering on Wednesday for their alleged roles in a gang suspected of bringing women from China to be sex workers in Europe. Some 300 Belgian police detained 27 people in raids across the country on Tuesday and seized bank notes worth about 1.5 …
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The international team investigating the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) by a missile has convincing evidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally signed off on a decision to allow the Russian missile system into Ukraine, Dutch prosecutors said on Wednesday. The BUK-TELAR missile system was used to shot down …
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