By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un brought his teenage daughter to Beijing this week in her first public outing overseas, fuelling further speculation that she may be his potential successor in the family’s dynastic rule over the nuclear-armed state. Secretive North Korea has never revealed her name or age, but …
JAKARTA (Reuters) -Around 400 children have fallen ill after eating free school meals in Indonesia’s western Bengkulu Province, in the worst case of mass food poisoning to date linked to President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship food programme. Prabowo launched the programme of free meals for children and pregnant women in January, but the initiative has been …
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By Sayed Hassib and Charlotte Greenfield KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 shook southeastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, sparking fears of further damage and destruction almost two days after a large quake in the same region killed more than 1,400 people and injured thousands more. Tuesday’s quake occurred at a relatively shallow depth of …
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By Sayed Hassib KABUL/ MAZAR DARA, Afghanistan (Reuters) -Nasrullah Khan’s voice breaks as he describes how with his own hands he buried three children in one grave and two young men in another after an earthquake struck the mountainous southeastern Afghan province of Kunar on Sunday. Nasrullah, an office worker from Kunar City, travelled six …
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By Martin Petty (Reuters) -Protests have flared in parts of Indonesia since August 25 in some of the country’s worst violence in decades, presenting the biggest challenge so far to Prabowo Subianto’s 10-month-old presidency. WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING? Protests started outside parliament in the capital, Jakarta, initially by groups angered by reports that lawmakers were receiving …
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By Yuddy Cahya Budiman and Stanley Widianto BANDUNG, Indonesia (Reuters) -Indonesian police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters near two universities in the city of Bandung, student groups and authorities said on Tuesday, stoking concerns over unrest in which 10 people have been killed since last week. The protests began in the capital …
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(Reuters) -Six security personnel and six militants were killed on Tuesday during an assault on the base of a paramilitary force in northwest Pakistan that began with a suicide bomber ramming the compound and led to a 12-hour gun battle, police said. The suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into the boundary wall of the …
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By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) -An Indonesian diplomat’s killing in Lima will be thoroughly investigated, Peruvian authorities pledged on Tuesday, promising answers for what it called an “assassination.” Zetro Leonardo Purba, who worked at Indonesia’s embassy in the Peruvian capital, died Monday night after being shot three times by an unidentified person while biking to …
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(Corrects date in dateline) SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Beijing on Tuesday on his signature green armoured train, relying on a slow but specialised form of transport that the reclusive country’s leaders have used for decades. Compared with North Korea’s ageing fleet of passenger aircraft, the bulletproof trains offer a …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand’s ruling Pheu Thai party is still seeking to form the next government but is prepared to dissolve parliament, a senior party official said on Tuesday, a move that could trigger a general election. In a sign of deepening political turmoil as two rival camps vied to form the next government, Pheu Thai …
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