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Bangladesh battles rising tide of dengue and chikungunya

7 Sep 2025

DHAKA (Reuters) -Bangladesh faces a fast-worsening public health crisis as the mosquito-borne diseases dengue and chikungunya spread side by side, overwhelming hospitals and heightening fears of an even bigger outbreak in the weeks ahead. According to the Directorate General of Health Services, the South Asian country has recorded over 33,800 dengue cases and 132 deaths …

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South Korean President vows support to Koreans arrested in US immigration raid

7 Sep 2025

By Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Lee Jae Myung ordered all-out efforts on Saturday to swiftly respond to the arrests of hundreds of the nation’s citizens in a U.S. immigration raid on a Hyundai Motor car battery factory. Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said the government has set up a team to respond to …

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US immigration agents arrest hundreds at Hyundai plant, mostly Koreans

6 Sep 2025

(Corrects grammar in headline to ‘agents arrest’) By Hyunjoo Jin, Heekyong Yang, Ted Hesson and David Shepardson ATLANTA/WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) -Hundreds of workers at a Hyundai Motor car battery facility under construction in Georgia were detained in a raid by U.S. authorities on Thursday, stopping work on a plant that is one of the Korean automaker’s …

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Five killed as evacuation boat capsizes in flood-hit Southern Punjab in Pakistan

6 Sep 2025

(Reuters) -At least five people were killed and over a dozen rescued on Saturday after a boat evacuating residents capsized in flood-hit southern Punjab province of Pakistan, the disaster agency said. The disaster management authority said the boat overturned in Multan district due to strong currents but most passengers were rescued. Earlier during the day, …

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Trump says India and Russia appear ‘lost’ to ‘deepest, darkest China’

6 Sep 2025

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said India and Russia seem to have been “lost” to China after their leaders met with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, expressing his annoyance at New Delhi and Moscow as Beijing pushes a new world order. “Looks like we’ve lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest, …

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Thai PM-elect names veterans to cabinet, hoping to bring ‘confidence’

6 Sep 2025

By Chayut Setboonsarng and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK -Thailand’s prime minister-elect on Saturday named the former Treasury Department head, the top oil and gas executive and a respected diplomat to run the finance, energy, and foreign ministries, saying his first cabinet picks would “bring confidence” to a country shaken by political and economic upheaval. Anutin Charnvirakul, …

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Second known tanker carrying sanctioned Russian Arctic LNG berths in China

6 Sep 2025

By Che Pan and James Pomfret BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) -Another tanker carrying liquefied natural gas from Russia’s sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project has docked in a Chinese port, ship-tracking data showed, days after Russian President Vladimir Putin met China’s leader Xi Jinping in Beijing. The LSEG tracking data indicated the Russian Voskhod LNG tanker was …

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US special forces killed North Korean civilians in botched 2019 mission, NYT says

5 Sep 2025

SEOUL (Reuters) -U.S. Navy SEALs shot and killed a number of North Korean civilians during a botched covert mission to plant a listening device in the nuclear-armed country during high-stakes diplomatic negotiations in 2019, the New York Times reported on Friday. Citing unidentified sources, including current and former military officials with knowledge of the still-classified …

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Russian gas sales to China would not harm US, energy secretary says

5 Sep 2025

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Friday that he is not worried that any Russian sales of gas to China would harm U.S. exporters of the fuel. Russia and China gave their blessing earlier this week to a gas pipeline called Power of Siberia 2, underscoring Chinese President Xi Jinping’s disregard for …

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How Thailand’s Anutin Charnvirakul rose from cannabis crusader to prime minister

5 Sep 2025

By Devjyot Ghoshal BANGKOK (Reuters) -Anutin Charnvirakul waited just hours after the June leak of a phone call that would bring down Thailand’s prime minister before kicking into higher gear his manoeuvring to take power. The veteran politician swiftly walked out of the ruling coalition led by the Pheu Thai party’s Paetongtarn Shinawatra, made an …

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