TAIPEI (Reuters) – Thirteen Chinese air force aircraft entered Taiwan’s air defence identification zone (ADIZ) on Friday, the island’s defence ministry said. Taiwan, which China claims as part of its sovereign territory, has over the last few months recorded repeated missions by China’s air force near the island, concentrated in the southwestern part of its …
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By Kate Lamb, Stanley Widianto and Prastyo Wardoyo PENANGGAL, Indonesia (Reuters) – In the wake of the deadly Semeru eruption on Indonesia’s Java island, the entwined bodies of a mother and daughter encased in molten ash have come to symbolise what many living in the shadow of the volcano feel went wrong. “There was no …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s greenhouse gas emissions dropped 5.1% to a record low in the 2020 financial year that ended March 2021, government figures showed on Friday, as energy demand and industry activities slowed amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It marked Japan’s seventh straight annual drop, but comes as a report by the U.N weather agency …
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By Rina Chandran and Avi Asher-Schapiro BANGKOK/LOS ANGELES (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A landmark lawsuit by Rohingya refugees against Meta Platforms Inc, formerly known as Facebook, is a “wake-up call” for social media firms and a test case for courts to limit their immunity, human rights and legal experts said. The $150 billion class-action complaint, …
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By Yew Lun Tian and Ben Blanchard BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -China and Nicaragua re-established diplomatic ties on Friday after the Central American country broke relations with Chinese-claimed Taiwan, boosting Beijing in a part of the world long considered the United States’ backyard and angering Washington. China has increased military and political pressure on Taiwan to accept …
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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan has found eight new cases of the Omicron variant of coronavirus, a government spokesperson said on Friday, bringing its total to 12. All the cases have been found during testing of arrivals at airports. Two of the new cases were close contacts of the first case, a diplomat from Namibia. Spokesperson Seiji …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea will further cut the interval for coronavirus booster vaccines for all adults from four to five months to three, officials said on Friday, as it struggles to fight record levels of infections amid concerns over the Omicron variant. The move came three weeks after the government reduced …
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BEIJING/LONDON (Reuters) – An unofficial tribunal of lawyers and campaigners said Chinese President Xi Jinping bore primary responsibility for what it said was genocide, crimes against humanity and torture of Uyghurs and members of other minorities in the Xinjiang region. China dismissed the tribunal, which is headed by British lawyer Geoffrey Nice and has no …
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – AstraZeneca said on Friday it will supply Singapore with its COVID-19 antibody cocktail, Evusheld, by the end of the year. Evusheld can act as another layer of protection, alongside vaccines, for people who are at high risk of COVID-19 infection, according to AstraZeneca’s statement. The company did not specify how many courses …
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(Reuters) – Protesters in Myanmar closed businesses and stayed off the streets on Friday in a “silent strike” against rule by the military and its ousting of the Southeast Asian country’s democratically elected government in a February coup. Photos published by Myanmar media showed deserted streets and markets in towns across the country, while protesters …
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