By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A divided U.S. appeals court on Tuesday said HSBC Holdings Plc was not liable to the families of two American contractors killed in an al-Qaeda suicide bombing of a CIA base in Afghanistan, after the bank allegedly evaded U.S. sanctions targeting sponsors of terrorism. Dane Paresi and Jeremy Wise were …
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By Syed Raza Hassan and Asif Shahzad JAMSHORO, Pakistan (Reuters) -Pakistan scrambled on Tuesday to widen a breach in its biggest lake to prevent it from overflowing amid unprecedented floods that have inundated a third of the South Asian nation, as the United Nations warned of more misery to come. Flooding, brought by record monsoon …
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KABUL (Reuters) – Authorities in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Paktia said girls’ high schools had opened in recent days, though the move had not been officially approved. Most girls’ secondary schools in Afghanistan have been closed since the Taliban took over in August 2021 after the group made a sudden U-turn on promises to open …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India will start talks on a comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA) with Bangladesh, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday, aiming to finalize it when the South Asian nation graduates to become a developing country by 2026. Bangladesh is India’s largest development partner and the largest regional trade partner, Modi said …
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By Tom Bateman and Rikako Maruyama TOKYO (Reuters) – Shoji Morimoto has what some would see as a dream job: he gets paid to do pretty much nothing. The 38-year-old Tokyo resident charges 10,000 yen ($71) per booking to accompany clients and simply exist as a companion. “Basically, I rent myself out. My job is …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong has reported its first case of monkeypox, health authorities said on Tuesday, after symptoms were discovered in a 30-year old man who arrived from the Phillippines after travelling in the United States and Canada. It marks the first imported case in Honk Kong of monkeypox, a viral disease which the …
(This September 5 story officially corrects paragraph 9 to 100,000 pregnant women, not 400,000, following correction by health department to its data) By Syed Raza Hassan and Asif Shahzad KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani authorities are struggling to prevent the country’s biggest lake bursting its banks and inundating nearby towns after unprecedented flooding, while the …
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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -The Solomon Islands government has accused Australia of “interference”, after an offer to fund its next election was made as parliament considered a bill to change the constitution to delay the vote. The Solomon Islands relationship with Australia has been strained since it struck a security pact with China in …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan’s government expressed its condolences to China on Tuesday for an earthquake in Sichuan province and said it was ready to send rescuers, in a sign of goodwill to Beijing despite weeks of military tensions. China, which claims democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory despite the strong objections of the government in Taipei, …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) -The combat skills of Taiwan’s military are now “more mature” and it is better able to fight thanks to having to repeatedly scramble to see off Chinese forces during their recent drills, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Tuesday. China staged war games in the immediate aftermath of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit …
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