By Hyunjoo Jin and Joyce Lee INCHEON, South Korea (Reuters) -South Korean workers who returned home on Friday after being detained for a week by U.S. immigration authorities described their horror over the raid at their workplace in the state of Georgia and their relief at being reunited with their families. “It was like a …
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By Sakshi Dayal and Sarita Chaganti Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Nepal’s first female chief justice, Sushila Karki, is set to take charge as interim head, stepping in to run the poor Himalayan nation after anti-graft protests plunged it into the worst political crisis in decades. Karki’s appointment on Friday came days after violence led to …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China will review issues around TikTok in accordance with laws and regulations and urges the U.S. to resolve concerns through dialogue based on mutual respect and equal consultation, a Chinese commerce ministry statement said on Friday. The U.S. Treasury has said ByteDance’s short video app, which faces a potential ban in the U.S. …
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(This story has been corrected to clarify that people were executed for sharing foreign TV shows, not merely for watching them, in the headline and paragraph 1) By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – North Korea has executed people for distributing foreign media, including television shows like popular South Korean dramas, as part of an intensifying …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China ratified its extradition treaty with Serbia on Friday, broadening its network of countries in Europe willing to extradite Chinese citizens, including dissidents and asylum seekers, and even Taiwanese individuals. The treaty’s formal approval by China’s top legislative body came a year after Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the Balkan state …
JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia is expected to experience a longer-than-usual peak period during its wet season this year, bringing a higher risk of floods and extreme rainfall in many areas of the Southeast Asian country, its weather agency forecast on Friday. The wet season in the archipelago of over 17,000 islands starts this month and ends …
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DENPASAR/JAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) – Two people were still missing on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, officials said on Friday, as flood waters began to recede after killing at least 18 people this week, most of them swept away when rivers burst their banks. Torrential rains on Tuesday and Wednesday caused the fast-rising floods in Denpasar …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) has closed eight centres providing support to Afghan refugees forced back to the country because Taliban authorities are preventing female U.N. staff from entering them, an official said on Friday. The United Nations says Pakistan is driving Afghan refugees back home against their will, warning …
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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – China has exported its village surveillance model to the Solomon Islands in the Pacific, where Chinese police are piloting fingerprint and data collection to curb social unrest, officials and locals confirmed to Reuters. China’s “Fengqiao” monitoring model – started under Mao Zedong in the 1960s to help communities mobilise …
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By Adrian Portugal SUBIC, Philippines (Reuters) – Philippine fishermen fear that China’s plan to establish a nature reserve in the Scarborough Shoal could expose them to further harassment and make it even harder to operate in the disputed South China Sea atoll, which is already under the constant watch of Chinese vessels. China has approved …
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