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By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s Emperor Naruhito plans to attend the funeral of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, while Prime Minister Fumio Kishida may also attend, Japanese media said. It would be Naruhito’s first overseas trip since acceding to the throne in May 2019. Empress Masako has also expressed a wish to attend, and the Japanese …

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China reported 1,380 new COVID-19 infections on Sept. 9, of which 290 were symptomatic and 1,090 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Saturday. That compared with 1,404 new cases a day earlier – 301 symptomatic and 1,103 asymptomatic infections, which China counts separately. There were no new deaths, the same …

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By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea has officially enshrined the right to use preemptive nuclear strikes to protect itself in a new law that leader Kim Jong Un said makes its nuclear status “irreversible” and bars denuclearisation talks, its state media reported on Friday. The secretary-general of the United Nations, which has long-standing sanctions …

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By Syed Raza Hassan and Asif Shahzad SEHWAN, Pakistan (Reuters) – In the hours before her six-year-old son died in her lap, Badar Bibi recalled how she rushed from a field clinic set up to treat people caught in Pakistan’s worst floods in decades to a city hospital, desperate to bring down the boy’s fever. …

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By David Lawder and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States and 13 Indo-Pacific countries on Friday agreed on parameters for negotiating closer trade, environment and economic ties that U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said would boost investment and jobs in the partner countries. U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said that India, the world’s largest …

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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s financial hub Shanghai will extend free regular COVID-19 testing services to Oct. 31 to further consolidate the results of their epidemic prevention efforts, the city government said on Friday. Citizens are required to take at least one PCR test each week until the end of October, the city government said on …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “deeply concerned” by North Korea’s new law enshrining a right to use pre-emptive nuclear strikes to protect itself, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Friday. Guterres calls on Pyongyang to resume talks with key parties to achieve sustainable peace and the complete and verifiable denuclearization of the …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has made clear it has no hostile intent toward North Korea and continues to seek diplomacy with the country, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Friday aboard Air Force One. Jean-Pierre also said she was aware of reports that North Korea has officially enshrined the right …

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