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TOKYO (Reuters) -Tokyo Metropolitan government will start a system that effectively allows same-sex marriage in Japan’s capital in the next fiscal year from April, Japan’s Kyodo news wire reported Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike as saying on Tuesday. The local government for the city with a population of 14 million plans to introduce “same-sex partnership” after …

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By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – A Malaysian appeals court will deliver its verdict on Wednesday on a bid filed by former Prime Minister Najib Razak to overturn his conviction in a case linked to a corruption scandal at state fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB). Najib, who was voted out of office in 2018, …

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By Poppy McPherson (Reuters) – The imprisonment of former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi showed that no one was above the law, a senior junta official said on Tuesday, and the country’s ruling general had commuted her sentence on “grounds of humanity”. Nobel laureate Suu Kyi, 76, was sentenced to four years in prison …

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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan will provide aid worth more than $2.8 billion in next three years aimed at combatting malnutrition exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told an online summit on nutrition for growth on Tuesday. The event, hosted by Japan and participated in by more than 80 countries and agencies, comes when …

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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Myanmar’s military-appointed foreign minister, Wunna Maung Lwin, held talks in Cambodia on Tuesday, a day after the junta drew global condemnation for sentencing deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to jail for incitement and breaching COVID-19 rules. Wunna Maung Lwin met Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen at the Peace Palace in …

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By Tony Munroe ZHANGJIAKOU, China (Reuters) – China’s snow sports industry is pinning its hopes on people like Shi Haoping, 32, who takes to the slopes to de-stress from his job as head of an online education company. “This is such a physical activity, it relieves the pressure for me,” Shi said while taking a …

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