TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s defence ministry said on Sunday it had spotted 35 Chinese military aircraft, including fighters and bombers, flying to the island’s south on the way to exercises in the Pacific, a second day in a row it has reported such activities. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory despite …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – President Prabowo Subianto visited the Papua region of Indonesia on Sunday to oversee the development of a key food programme aimed at creating three million hectares (7.4 million acres) of food estates across the country. Prabowo has promised that the country could reach food self-sufficiency in the next four years. An advisor …
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By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean state media released a white paper on Sunday accusing South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol of exposing his country to the danger of nuclear war through his policies toward the North. The document, compiled by North Korea’s Institute of Enemy State Studies and released by state news agency …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China, which has been releasing a slew of measures to bolster its sagging population levels, recorded a drop in marriage registrations for the first nine months of 2024, according to official data from Ministry of Civil Affairs. For the first three quarters of the year, 4.747 million couples were registered nationwide, the …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – The foreign ministers of North Korea and Russia reaffirmed their commitment to implement provisions agreed in June between the leaders of the two nations, North Korean state media KCNA reported on Saturday. North Korea Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui and her Russian counterpart Sergei Viktorovich Lavrov met in Moscow, amid rising concerns …
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(Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Ukraine’s allies to stop “watching” and take action to tackle the presence of North Korean troops in Russia before they start confronting his country in combat. Zelenskiy, in a video posted on Telegram, said North Korea had made progress in its military capability, missile deployment and weapons production …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea said on Saturday it has no choice but to continue efforts to build up capabilities for self-defense and accused the United States and South Korea of pushing the Korean Peninsula into war scenarios. “The DPRK will further intensify its practical efforts to deter the military threat of the hostile forces and …
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OTTAWA (Reuters) -South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul, asked on Friday whether Seoul could send weapons to Ukraine in response to North Korea’s aiding Russia, said all possible scenarios were under consideration. Cho, speaking through an interpreter, told a press conference in Ottawa that Seoul would be watching the level of participation by North Korean …
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By Colleen Howe and David Stanway BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China hopes the United States will be able to continue to cooperate with other countries on climate change, whatever the outcome of the presidential election next week, a senior government official said on Friday. Cooperation between China and the United States, the world’s top two emitters …
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by an Indigenous community that sought to cancel a permit for a palm oil concession on thousands of hectares of rainforest it claimed as ancestral land, legal documents showed on Friday. Upholding the appeal could have set an important precedent in a country that has …
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