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By Josh Smith (Reuters) – From the war in Ukraine to North Korea’s recent missile testing spree, tactical nuclear weapons are being debated and developed in a way not seen since the Cold War. There is no universal definition of such weapons, and analysts note that the use of any type of nuclear device would …

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JAKARTA (Reuters) – The Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) and world soccer governing body FIFA will form a joint taskforce in a bid to improve crowd control and safety measures after a deadly soccer stampede earlier this month, officials said on Thursday. Indonesian authorities are under pressure to take swift steps to overhaul soccer safety standards …

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By Yuddy Cahya Budiman TEGALLUAR, Indonesia (Reuters) – A high-speed railway project in Indonesia, part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, is on track for a 2023 launch despite ongoing negotiations between the two countries about the project being over-budget, officials said on Thursday. President Joko Widodo inspected a new train station, where the consortium …

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ASTANA (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Kazakhstan on Thursday to attend meetings of several regional bodies, a Kazakh government source told Reuters. Putin is set to attend the summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) on Thursday alongside a number of Asian leaders, including Turkey’s Tayyip …

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By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s recent flurry of missile launches has raised expectations that it could soon test a nuclear device for the first time since 2017. North Korea has finished all technical preparations for a new test in the underground tunnels at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test site, which has been shuttered …

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Approval for the government of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida slid to 27.4%, a poll showed on Thursday, falling below 30% for the first time since he took office last October. Disapproval rose 3.0 percentage points to 43.0%, the poll by Jiji Press between Oct. 7 and 10 showed. It follows a …

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By Ann Wang TAOYUAN, Taiwan (Reuters) -Taiwan began welcoming back visitors on Thursday after finally ending mandatory quarantines to control the spread of COVID-19, with gifts of cuddly toy black bears for the first tour group that stepped off the plane shortly after midnight. Taiwan had kept some of its entry and quarantine rules in …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Russia said it had protested to the Japanese embassy on Wednesday over joint Japan-U.S. military exercises this week in which it said HIMARS rocket systems were fired close to Russia’s borders. “We consider the military exercises that took place as a challenge to ensuring the security of the Far Eastern region of …

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