By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan needs to do more than make an “empty promise” to stop human rights abuses in China, the leader of the largest ethnic Uyghur group in exile said in Tokyo on Friday. Dolkun Isa, president of the World Uyghur Congress, said he had come to Japan to meet members …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden told Pacific island leaders on Thursday that the security of the United States and the world depended on security in their region. Biden spoke at the State Department where the United States is hosting more than a dozen leaders and representatives of Pacific island countries as part of …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Hyonhee Shin PANMUNJOM, South Korea (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said North Korea is a country with a “brutal dictatorship”, an illegal arms programme and rampant human rights violations, issuing unusually strong criticism during a visit to the inter-Korean border on Thursday. Soon after Harris wrapped up her Asia trip, …
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LONDON (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin will begin annexing four Ukrainian regions to Russia on Friday, a move the United Nations warned would mark a “dangerous escalation” and jeopardise prospects for peace, while Kyiv warned it would elicit a harsh response. Moscow’s planned annexation of 15% of Ukraine’s territory, after what Kyiv and Western countries …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Thursday condemned North Korea’s latest launch of ballistic missiles, which came after the firing of two missiles a day earlier and one on Sunday. State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said the launches are a clear violation of multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions and demonstrate the threat …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan will end its mandatory COVID-19 quarantine for arrivals from Oct. 13 and welcome tourists back, the government said on Thursday, completing a major step on its plan to re-open to the outside world. Taiwan had kept some of its entry and quarantine rules in place as large parts of the rest of …
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By Rozanna Latiff and A. Ananthalakshmi KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Heirs of a late Southeast Asian sultan on Thursday asked a Dutch court for permission to seize Malaysian assets in the Netherlands, their lawyer said, seeking enforcement of a $15 billion arbitration award granted to them against Malaysia’s government. The petition in The Hague Court …
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By Joori Roh SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea fired two ballistic missiles off its east coast on Thursday, South Korea’s military said, following the firing of two short-range ballistic missiles a day earlier and one on Sunday. “South Korean military detected two short-range ballistic missiles fired from Sunchon, South Pyongan province, toward the east coast between …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – A court in Hong Kong on Thursday sentenced a pro-democracy activist and former lawmaker, Ted Hui, to 3 1/2 years in jail for “criminal contempt” after he failed to show up for trial in several criminal cases. Hui, 40, fled Hong Kong in December 2020, several months after China imposed a …
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(Reuters) – A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Thursday jailed deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her former economic adviser, Australian Sean Turnell, for three years for violating a secrets law, a source familiar with the proceedings said. Turnell was also found guilty of violating an immigration law, and was ordered to concurrently serve …
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