By Ju-min Park and Hyeyeon Kim SEOUL (Reuters) – Hwang Rae-ha is 80 years old and despairs of ever seeing his mother again after the Korean war separated them in the 1950s. “I want to see her one last time, but she doesn’t even come to my dreams,” said Hwang, a South Korean who fears …
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PHUKET, Thailand (Reuters) – Worshippers on Thailand’s Phuket island have celebrated a nine-day Taoist festival, with many piercing their faces with metal spikes and walking on hot coals to show devotion to deities. The Nine Emperor Gods Festival, which was suspended during the coronavirus pandemic, drew thousands of people from the ethnic Chinese community, who …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea and U.S. warplanes conducted bombing drills on Tuesday in response to North Korea’s firing of a missile over Japan for the first time since 2017, South Korea’s military said. (Reporting by Cynthia Kim, Joori Roh; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s soccer federation said on Tuesday it has banned two officials from Arema FC for life over a weekend stadium riot that killed at least 125 people. The club was also fined club 250 million rupiah ($16,398), Erwin Tobing, the head of the association’s discipline committee, told a news conference. ($1 = …
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MANILA (Reuters) – A Philippine journalist has been shot dead while driving in the country’s capital, police said on Tuesday, prompting condemnation from media groups and activists, who described his assassination as a blow to press freedom. Radio journalist Percival Mabasa, 63, was killed by two assailants at the gate of a residential compound in …
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By Yuddy Cahya Budiman MALANG, Indonesia (Reuters) – For more than three decades, Iwan Junaedi was a devoted fan of the Indonesian soccer side Arema FC, barely missing a game at the club in the country’s top-flight league. But Saturday’s match would be the last time the 43-year-old father of three would see his side …
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By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian police wrongly used tear gas inside a stadium to disperse rioting football fans, an internal oversight official said on Tuesday, as the country awaits answers on how a soccer match descended into chaos, killing 125 people. In one of the world’s worst stadium disasters, hundreds of spectators were …
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(Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken along with the foreign ministers of Japan and South Korea “strongly condemned” North Korea’s firing of a ballistic missile over Japan, the U.S. State Department spokesperson said in a statement on Tuesday. The trio also condemned North Korea’s disregard of multiple UN Security Council resolutions and its …
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By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States condemned North Korea’s firing of a ballistic missile over Japan as “dangerous and reckless” and pledged to defend South Korea and Japan with all America’s power, but said it remained open to dialogue with Pyongyang. “This action is destabilizing and shows the DPRK’s blatant disregard for United …
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By Natalie Grover, Niklas Pollard and Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) -Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for discoveries that underpin our understanding of how modern day people evolved from extinct ancestors at the dawn of human history. Paabo’s work demonstrated practical implications during the COVID-19 pandemic …
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