KABUL (Reuters) -A huge explosion struck a mosque in Kabul during evening prayers on Wednesday, witnesses and police said, with many feared dead or injured. Police said there were multiple casualties but did not say how many. One Taliban intelligence official told Reuters that as many as 35 people may have been wounded or killed, …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese troops will travel to Russia to take part in joint military exercises led by the host and including India, Belarus, Mongolia, Tajikistan and other countries, China’s defence ministry said on Wednesday. China’s participation in the joint exercises was “unrelated to the current international and regional situation”, the ministry said in a statement. …
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By Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s health minister on Wednesday discouraged tourists from visiting the country only to smoke weed, just two months after new laws were passed that have largely decriminalised the drug. “We don’t welcome those kinds of tourists,” Anutin Charnvirakul told reporters when asked about recreational marijuana use among foreign visitors. …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China must take more effective measures to speed up the pace of recovery in domestic consumption including spending on services and big-ticket items, Vice Premier Hu Chunhua said on Wednesday, as the already soft economy showed more signs of weakening. At a meeting aiming to stabilise trade and consumption, Hu also called for …
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By Aleksander Solum and Ann Wang HUALIEN, Taiwan (Reuters) – Taiwanese F-16 fighters roared into the night sky on Wednesday in a show of force in front of the media, demonstrating the military’s determination to defend the democratically governed island in the face of days of Chinese war games. China, which claims Taiwan as its …
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By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India’s home ministry said on Wednesday that Rohingya refugees in the capital New Delhi would be held at a detention centre and then deported, contradicting a minister’s earlier statement promising flats and security to members of the Muslim minority. Hardeep Singh Puri, federal minister for housing and urban …
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(Reuters) – Former Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa will return to his homeland on Aug. 24, Sri Lankan broadcaster Newsfirst reported on Wednesday, citing a former ambassador. (Reporting by Abinaya Vijayaraghavan in Bengaluru; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)
(Reuters) – Myanmar’s military leadership on Wednesday lashed out at the ASEAN grouping of Southeast Asian countries for excluding its generals from regional gatherings, accusing it of caving to “external pressure”. Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have heaped condemnation on Myanmar’s junta, which they say has failed to make concrete progress on …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Explosions and fires ripped through at least 17 locations in southern Thailand on Wednesday, authorities said, in what appeared to be multiple coordinated attacks that injured seven people. The bombings and arson attacks happened after midnight and targeted convenience stores and a gas station across three provinces, lightly injuring at least seven, …
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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese prosecutors arrested a former member of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics board, Haruyuki Takahashi, on Wednesday on suspicion of receiving bribes, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor’s Office said. Takahashi was not immediately available for comment and did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment. The Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported that he …
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