JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Semeru volcano on Java island erupted early on Sunday spewing a two km (1.24 miles) high ash column, prompting authorities to warn people to stay away from the eruption range. Earlier this month, the eruption of Semeru, Java’s tallest mountain, ejected ash clouds and pyroclastic flows that killed at least 46 …
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) – A light plane crashed into waters off Australia’s east coast on Sunday morning, killing all four people on board including two children, police said. The 69-year-old male pilot had taken the three passengers on a joy ride, police said. The plane went down into a wetland area northeast of Brisbane shortly after …
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By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) – An 11-year-old boy died on Sunday from a jumping castle accident four days ago in Australia’s island state Tasmania, taking the death toll from the tragedy to six children, police said. The children fell 10 metres (33 feet) to the ground after an inflated jumping castle was lifted into …
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Tokyo (Reuters) – A Japanese cabinet official said on Sunday that victims of a fire in a clinic that claimed 24 lives last week were blocked from the only escape route, prompting an emergency inspection of similar buildings. In an act of suspected arson, a man entered a fourth-floor clinic in the western city of …
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By Aleksander Solum HONG KONG (Reuters) – Adrian Lau is one of a very few independent candidates running in elections Sunday for Hong Kong’s Legislative Council. The elections are the first since Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law and a shake-up of the city’s electoral system. The new system puts in place what the government …
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By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) -The Omicron coronavirus variant has been reported in 89 countries and the number of cases is doubling in 1.5 to 3 days in areas with community transmission, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday. Omicron is spreading rapidly in countries with high levels of population immunity, but it is …
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KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) -At least 15 people were killed and 16 others injured in an explosion on Saturday at a bank branch in Karachi’s industrial area, police said. A senior police officer said the blast at a branch of Habib Bank Limited, Pakistan’s largest lender, could have been caused by a gas leak, Sarfaraz Nawaz …
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KABUL (Reuters) – Senior Taliban officials appealed on Saturday for international help to combat a deepening economic crisis that has fuelled fears of another refugee exodus from Afghanistan. The comments, at a special meeting to mark the U.N.’s international migrants day, underlined the new Islamist Taliban government’s push to engage with the world community, four …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate early Saturday confirmed President Joe Biden’s nominee Rahm Emanuel to be ambassador to Japan, despite questions about the murder of a Black teenager by a white police officer when Emanuel was mayor of Chicago. The Senate approved Emanuel by a vote of 48-21 in a middle-of-the-night session, with three …
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By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan’s opposition suffered a major setback on Saturday after voters rejected four referendums it had championed as a show of no confidence in the government. The defeat of the referendums comes as Taipei faces growing military and political pressure from Beijing, and is a boost for President Tsai Ing-wen https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-election-idUSKBN1ZA009 …
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