BEIJING (Reuters) – Plunging water levels of the Yangtze River have revealed a submerged island in China’s southwestern city of Chongqing and a trio of Buddhist statues on it that are believed to be 600 years old, state media Xinhua has reported. The three statues were found on the highest part of the island reef called …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia has confirmed its first monkeypox infection, detected in a person who had returned from an unidentified country with documented cases, a health ministry spokesman said on Saturday. The 27-year-old male tested positive in the capital Jakarta late on Friday, Mohammad Syahril told a news conference. The Indonesian national, who is doing “well” …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s defence ministry said 17 Chinese aircraft and five Chinese ships were detected operating around Taiwan on Saturday as Beijing continued military activities near the island. It said this included four aircraft that crossed the Taiwan Strait’s median line, which in normal times acts as an unofficial barrier between the two sides. …
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By Thomas Suen and Thomas Peter CHONGQING, China (Reuters) – As the tinder-dry countryside along China’s Yangtze river basin withers under a heatwave that has lasted more than two months, veteran farmer Chen Xiaohua recalled the last severe drought to hit his crops more than 60 years ago. “This year is drier than 1960,” said …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – North Korea imported more than 1 million facial masks and 15,000 pairs of rubber gloves from China in July, shortly before declaring victory over COVID-19, Chinese trade showed on Saturday. Pyongyang last week declared victory over the coronavirus, ending a little-detailed fight against “fever” cases that had risen to 4.77 million. It …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Mainland China reported 2,354 new coronavirus cases for Aug. 19 of which 639 were symptomatic and 1,715 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Saturday. That compared with 2,804 new cases a day earlier – 603 symptomatic and 2,201 asymptomatic infections, which China counts separately. There were no new deaths, leaving …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Russia has no moral right to sit at the Group of 20 nations while it presses on with its invasion of Ukraine, a spokesperson for Britain’s foreign ministry said on Friday. “Russia has no moral right to sit at the G20 while its aggression in Ukraine persists,” the spokesperson said. “We welcome …
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By Ananda Teresia and Sultan Anshori DENPASAR, Indonesia (Reuters) -An Indonesian man jailed for his role in the deadly 2002 Bali bombings could be released on parole in days after his sentence was reduced, a law official said on Friday, news that shocked those impacted by the attack at home and abroad. Umar Patek, a …
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(Reuters) – Myanmar’s junta chief said on Friday he would consider allowing deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be moved to house arrest from prison but only after verdicts in a litany of cases against her have been reached. Suu Kyi, ousted in a widely condemned military coup last year, was moved to a …
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(Reuters) -Chinese and Russian leaders Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin will attend November’s G20 summit on the resort island of Bali, a longtime adviser to the Indonesian president said on Friday. Andi Widjajanto, former cabinet secretary and unofficial adviser to President Joko Widodo, who is known as Jokowi, told Reuters the two leaders would join …
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