By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) -A Tokyo court upheld a ban on same-sex marriage on Wednesday but said a lack of legal protection for same-sex families violated their human rights, a comment welcomed by plaintiffs as a step towards aligning Japan with other G7 nations. Japan is the only G7 nation that does not allow …
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(Reuters) – Russian and Chinese warplanes conducted joint patrols over the Sea of Japan and East China Sea, Russian state media reported on Wednesday, citing the defence ministry. The defence ministry said the aircraft acted in accordance with international law and did not violate the airspace of other countries, according to the RIA news agency. …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Plucked from obscurity to head China’s ruling Communist Party after the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, former Chinese President Jiang Zemin was expected to be just another transitional figurehead, destined to be a footnote in history. Yet Jiang, who died on Wednesday aged 96, confounded the naysayers, chalking up a list of achievements …
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By Gul Yousafzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) -A Pakistani Taliban suicide bomber rammed a police escort for a polio vaccination team in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding more than 30, police said, just two days after the militants ended a ceasefire. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack near the …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – The Chinese city of Guangzhou relaxed COVID prevention rules in several districts on Wednesday in an effort to implement rules authorities announced this month aimed at easing the burden of the strict zero-COVID policy. Guangzhou, China’s manufacturing hub, has been hard hit in China’s latest COVID-19 outbreaks and people in the southern …
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(Reuters) -Twitter Inc has rolled back a policy that was aimed at tackling misinformation related to COVID-19 on the social media platform, lending itself to the risk of a potential surge in false claims even as cases rise in China and some parts of the world. The move also comes amid concerns of Twitter’s ability …
By William James and Farouq Suleiman LONDON (Reuters) -Britain summoned China’s ambassador on Tuesday to raise the treatment of a British journalist who, according to his employer the BBC, was assaulted by Chinese police while covering a protest in Shanghai. The incident has stoked long-running diplomatic tension between Britain and China over a range of …
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By Martin Quin Pollard and Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese authorities have begun inquiries into some of the people who gathered at weekend protests against COVID-19 curbs, people who were at the Beijing demonstrations told Reuters, as police remained out in numbers on the city’s streets. Two protesters told Reuters that callers identifying themselves as …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States, Costa Rica, Netherlands, South Korea and Zambia will co-host a second “Summit for Democracy” next year, the countries said on Tuesday in a joint statement issued through the White House. “Building on the first Summit for Democracy held in December 2021, this gathering will demonstrate how democracies deliver for …
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By Hyun Young Yi and Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – Taking time off work, South Korean bus driver Cho Gi-Dong has visited a crypt where the remains of his 24-year-old daughter are kept almost every day since she perished in a deadly crush on the night of Halloween a month ago. Ye-jin was among 158 …
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