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(Reuters) -Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Thursday the country has sufficient stocks of wheat and he will not allow its private import to save “precious foreign exchange”, according to a statement from his office. The country is reeling from the impact of severe floods last month which killed 1,700 and submerged huge swathes …

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By Greg Torode and Donny Kwok HONG KONG (Reuters) -A luxury yacht belonging to sanctioned Russian oligarch Alexey Mordashov departed Hong Kong waters on Thursday heading for the South African port of Cape Town, according to private tracking site MarineTraffic. The prominent sight of the 465 foot (141-metre) multi-deck Nord in the city’s Victoria harbour …

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By Muvija M and Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) -Britain expects China to waive diplomatic immunity for any official facing police charges over an attack on a protester who was dragged inside the grounds of a Chinese consulate, a junior British foreign office minister said on Thursday. The British government has described as “unacceptable” the treatment …

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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Some medicinal syrups available in Indonesia contained ingredients linked to fatal acute kidney injury (AKI) in children, its health minister said on Thursday, as it investigates a spike in cases and 99 child deaths this year. Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin was also cited by media as saying some of those syrups …

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By Ruma Paul NAZIRPUR, Bangladesh (Reuters) – Mohammad Mostafa, a farmer in the low-lying deltas of southwestern Bangladesh, has revived his forefathers’ farming practice of growing crops on floating rafts as rising seas and storm flooding threaten more and more farmland. With prolonged waterlogging posing an increasing threat to families growing their own food, more …

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BEIJING (Reuters) – China is considering cutting the time that inbound visitors have to stay in COVID-19 quarantine, from 10 to seven days, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. A strict “zero-COVID” policy has been a damper on the world’s second-largest economy, contributing to concerns about a global recession, and …

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By Fransiska Nangoy and Bernadette Christina JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia has yet to decide the timing of a possible ban on tin exports and is still making calculations about its impact, President Joko Widodo said on Thursday, as the southeast Asian nation pushes to step up domestic processing. The world’s top tin exporter, Indonesia has already …

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By Asif Shahzad and Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global money laundering and terrorism financing watchdog, starts a two-day meeting in Paris on Thursday and is expected to take up removal of Pakistan from a list of countries under “increased monitoring”. In a meeting in June, the …

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