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By Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea is beefing up monitoring at crowded subway stations following a deadly Halloween crush that killed more than 150 people in Seoul, officials said on Friday. The annual festivities in the popular nightlife area of Itaewon turned deadly on Saturday night after tens of thousands of young revellers …

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By A. Ananthalakshmi KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s opposing political blocs will need to form an alliance to stand a chance of governing after this month’s general election, with none likely to win a simple majority, an opinion poll showed on Friday. There are 21 million Malaysians eligible to vote on Nov. 19, with opposition …

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By Andreas Rinke BEIJING (Reuters) -German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced an agreement on Friday to let expatriates in China use the COVID-19 vaccine from Germany’s BioNTech and pressed for Beijing to allow the shot to be made freely available to Chinese citizens. On his first visit to China since becoming chancellor and the first by …

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KARACHI (Reuters) -Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan said on Friday two shooters had tried to assassinate him in the city of Wazirabad the day before, opening fire at a protest march he was leading to the capital Islamabad. They killed one person and injured 11 others in Thursday’s attack, said Khan, speaking in a …

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Climate change diplomacy between China and the United States cannot be separated from broader political tensions between the two sides, and Washington must take responsibility for the breakdown in talks, China’s foreign ministry said. Nearly 200 countries are about to gather in Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt for another round of global climate …

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By Andreas Rinke and Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday condemned threats to use atomic weapons in Ukraine, with Scholz warning that Russia risked “crossing a line” in the international community by resorting to nuclear force. In the first visit by a G7 leader to …

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BEIJING (Reuters) -China on Friday reported the highest daily count of new local COVID cases in six months as outbreaks widened, pushing policymakers to walk an even finer line between holding the virus at bay while keeping a lid on social and economic angst. New locally transmitted cases rose to 3,871 on Thursday, according to …

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