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South Korea scrambles fighter jets as Chinese, Russian warplanes enter air defence zone

9 Dec 2025

SEOUL, Dec 9 (Reuters) – South Korea’s military said it had scrambled fighter jets when Chinese and Russian military planes entered and left its air defence zone on Tuesday. Seven Russian planes and two Chinese planes had entered the Korea Air Defence Identification Zone (KADIZ) at around 10 a.m. (0100 GMT) then left, and there …

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Magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes off west coast of Sumatra, GFZ says

9 Dec 2025

Dec 9 (Reuters) – A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck the west coast of the northern Sumatra region in Indonesia, on Tuesday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. (Reporting by Anusha Shah in Bengaluru; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)

Cyclone Ditwah to delay Sri Lanka’s fragile recovery, worsen poverty

9 Dec 2025

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s fragile economic recovery will be delayed as Cyclone Ditwah’s devastation of homes, roads and vital crops pushes more families into poverty, with officials warning the bill to rebuild could soar to $7 billion. The worst economic crisis in decades, which peaked in 2022, had already …

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Powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake strikes Japan’s northeast

9 Dec 2025

By Kantaro Komiya and Mariko Katsumura TOKYO, Dec 8 (Reuters) – A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake shook northeastern Japan late on Monday, prompting orders for about 90,000 residents to evacuate and tsunami warnings that hours later were downgraded to advisories. The Japan Meteorological Agency initially said a tsunami as high as 3 metres (10 feet) could …

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Six Pakistani soldiers killed in militant attack, sources say

9 Dec 2025

PESHAWAR, Pakistan Dec 9 (Reuters) – Militants stormed a security checkpoint in Pakistan’s northwest near the Afghan border, killing six soldiers, three police and security sources said on Tuesday. The attack in the former tribal district of Kurram comes as Pakistan and Afghanistan struggle to maintain a fragile truce after border clashes killed dozens in …

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Japan threatening us militarily, China tells German foreign minister

9 Dec 2025

BEIJING, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Japan is threatening China militarily which is “completely unacceptable”, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his German counterpart, after Japan said that Chinese fighter jets had aimed their radar at Japanese military aircraft. Japan has denounced the encounter as a dangerous act, though China has blamed Japan for sending aircraft …

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North Korea’s Kim Jong Un sends condolences to Russian embassy for ambassador’s death, KCNA says

9 Dec 2025

SEOUL, Dec 9 (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a message of condolence to Russia’s Vladimir Putin and sympathies to the embassy in the country regarding the death of Aleksandr Ivanovich Matsegora, Russian extraordinary ambassador to North Korea, state media KCNA reported on Tuesday. KCNA said the ambassador’s “sudden demise” was …

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Trump-brokered truce under threat as Thailand-Cambodia fighting reignites

8 Dec 2025

By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Orathai Sriring BANGKOK/PHNOM PENH, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Thailand said its fighter jets struck Cambodia on Monday in an attempt to cripple its military capability, as a re-eruption of border hostilities derailed a fragile ceasefire brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump. Each side blamed the other for starting clashes that broke …

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Indonesia says more than $3 billion in recovery funds required after Sumatra floods

8 Dec 2025

JAKARTA, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Sumatra island will require 51.82 trillion rupiah ($3.11 billion) in reconstruction and recovery funds following a series of deadly floods, senior government officials said. The death toll from the cyclone-induced floods and landslides reached 950 as of Monday, with 274 people still missing, according to official data. The storms …

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Chinese court orders Malaysia Airlines to pay $3.3 million in compensation over missing MH370 plane

8 Dec 2025

BEIJING, Dec 8 (Reuters) – A Beijing court has ordered Malaysia Airlines to pay some families of missing passengers onboard flight MH370 over 2.9 million yuan ($410,240) per case in compensation, state broadcaster CCTV said on Monday. The rulings are for eight cases involving eight passengers, according to CCTV. Another 47 cases have been settled …

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