By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Authorities in Nepal have raised the death toll from last week’s unrest to 72 as search teams recover bodies from government offices, houses and other buildings set on fire during the anti-corruption protests, the Health Ministry said on Sunday. In the deadliest outbreak of political violence in Nepal for …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun will visit China this week and meet his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported on Sunday. During his visit to Beijing around Wednesday, Cho is expected to discuss Chinese President Xi Jinping’s possible attendance at the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un, warned joint military exercises of U.S., South Korea and Japan could bring about “negative consequences” for themselves, state media reported on Sunday. South Korea, Japan and the U.S. will conduct annual defensive drills called the “Freedom Edge” starting on September …
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By Mushtaq Ali PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Nineteen Pakistani soldiers were killed on Saturday in two separate clashes with Islamist fighters in the country’s northwest, where militants have ramped up attacks on security forces since the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, the army said. In the first incident, soldiers moving in a vehicle convoy came under fire …
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By Mohammad Yusuf Yawar and Saeed Shah KABUL (Reuters) – U.S. officials held talks on Saturday with the authorities in Kabul over Americans held in Afghanistan, the Taliban administration said, as the White House pushes to free citizens it sees as wrongly detained abroad. Adam Boehler, the Trump administration’s special hostage envoy, and Zalmay Khalilzad, a …
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By Gopal Sharma and Aftab Ahmed KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal’s President Ramchandra Paudel has dissolved parliament and called for fresh elections on March 5 following a week of deadly violence that culminated in the appointment of the country’s first woman prime minister. The statement from Paudel’s office late on Friday came just hours after he …
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(Reuters) – The United States stands with the Philippines, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday, rejecting what he described as China’s “destabilizing plans” for a disputed atoll in the South China Sea. “Beijing claiming Scarborough Reef as a nature preserve is yet another coercive attempt to advance sweeping territorial and maritime claims in …
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(Corrects attribution of US statement to US Indo-Pacific Command, not US Navy, in paragraph 6 of Friday story) BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s military on Friday condemned the sailing of a U.S. and British warship through the sensitive Taiwan Strait, saying it ordered naval and air forces to monitor and warn the two ships. The People’s …
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By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China is preparing for war to take Taiwan, the island’s top China policymaker said in Washington on Friday, warning if Taiwan were to fall it would cause a regional “domino effect” that would threaten the security of the United States. Chiu Chui-cheng, the cabinet-ranked head of Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs …
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By Joyce Lee, Jihoon Lee and Hyunjoo Jin INCHEON, South Korea (Reuters) – Some 300 South Korean workers returned home on Friday to emotional reunions with families, one week after being detained in a major U.S. immigration raid that left some questioning whether they would ever work in the United States again. Wearing face masks, …
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