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By Alexander Cornwell and Jonathan Landay DUBAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Canada will accept some 1,000 Afghans who fled the Taliban takeover of their homeland and have been held for months in a makeshift refugee centre in the United Arab Emirates awaiting resettlement to the United States and elsewhere, seven sources said. Ottawa has agreed to a …

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By Sakura Murakami and Ju-min Park TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s prime minister on Thursday accepted criticism that he had not sufficiently explained why he wants a state funeral for assassinated former premier Shinzo Abe but defended the decision that has helped drag his support to its lowest ever. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s decision to hold the …

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By JEEVAN RAVINDRAN MANNAR, Sri Lanka (Reuters) – As the sun rose over Sri Lanka one morning in late August, around a dozen fishermen were laying out their nets on a beach in Mannar, a small island just off the country’s northwestern coast, the start of the day’s work. But many other fishermen in the …

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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong will include children aged five and above in the government’s vaccine pass scheme starting from the end of September, the government said on Thursday, as authorities try to increase vaccinations. (Reporting by Twinnie Siu and Farah Master; Editing by Peter Graff)

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India will increase the scope and complexity of bilateral military exercises with Japan, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday. Singh and Indian foreign minister S. Jaishankar are in Tokyo to hold talks with their Japanese counterparts. (Reporting by Devjyot Ghoshal; Editing by Peter Graff)

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s health authority is encouraging people to stay put during next month’s National Day holidays and avoid travel out of their cities to reduce the spread of COVID-19, Wu Liangyou, an official at the National Health Commission, told at a news conference on Thursday. China observes a week of holidays following its …

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s defence minister called on Thursday for an expansion of its partnership with Japan on defence equipment, inviting investment by Japanese industries. In a statement, the Indian defence ministry said Rajnath Singh, who is visiting Tokyo, agreed in talks with Japanese counterpart Yasukazu Hamada to hold military exercises aiming to boost …

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TAIPEI (Reuters) -A representative from Taiwan will attend the state funeral of slain former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this month, but the government is still discussing whom to send, the Taiwanese foreign ministry said on Thursday. Abe, the longest-serving leader in modern Japan, was fatally shot at close range during a campaign rally on …

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