(Reuters) – Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in court on Friday wearing a white top and a brown wraparound longyi that is the typical uniform for prisoners in the Southeast Asian country, a source with knowledge of the court proceedings said. Nobel laureate Suu Kyi, 76, was sentenced this month to four …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he had spoken with the head of Pfizer Inc on Friday to secure oral treatments for COVID-19, and that vaccine boosters for the elderly would be accelerated as concerns swirl about variants. Kishida told reporters he had arranged to secure 2 million doses of Pfizer’s antiviral …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s leading opposition presidential candidate apologised on Friday over inaccuracies on his wife’s resume when she applied for teaching jobs years ago, amid growing anger over what many voters see as politicians’ hypocrisy. Yoon Suk-yeol is the flag bearer of the main conservative opposition People Power Party and …
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By Josh Smith and Sunghyuk An SEOUL (Reuters) – In the 10 years since Kim Jong Un came to power, North Korea has cracked down on people trying to get out of the country, leaving many defectors without hope of seeing their families and homeland again. Even before the coronavirus pandemic slowed the number of …
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(Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has given up his initial plan to visit U.S. President Joe Biden this year due to tight schedules on the U.S. side and aims to take the trip early next year, three sources closed to the matter said. Since taking office in October, Kishida has made it clear he …
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – A drone strike hit a house just inside Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan, apparently targeting a senior member of the Pakistani Taliban, but the missile failed to explode, Pakistani Taliban sources said on Thursday. One of the Taliban officials said the drone fired a missile at a hujra, or guesthouse on the …
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By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – The United States hopes to launch arms control talks soon with China, which is expanding its nuclear arsenal and fleet of nuclear-powered submarines, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Thursday, without giving a timeline. China is expected to double its nuclear missile arsenal in the next few …
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, 96, has been admitted to a hospital and will be undergoing a full medical check up, the hospital said on Thursday. “He shall be undergoing a full medical check-up and further observation,” the National Heart Institute said in a statement. It did not say why …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan said on Thursday a staff member at a facility housing people found positive with coronavirus after arriving in the country had tested positive for Omicron, in the first case of a domestically-acquired infection of the variant. The infected person, a woman in her 30s who belongs to the quarantine station at …
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(Reuters) – AstraZeneca said on Thursday a lab-study of its COVID-19 antibody cocktail, Evusheld, found that the treatment retained neutralising activity against the Omicron coronavirus variant, showing promise for wider use of the therapy. The study was conducted by independent investigators of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the company said, adding that more analyses …
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