PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) -A Pakistani military helicopter crashed in the northern Gilgit-Baltistan region bordering China and India on Monday, killing four personnel including two pilots, a military official said. The aircraft went down near Hudur village while flying from Gilgit, the main town of the mountainous region, to Chilas, a city on the Indus River …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) -A helicopter with two crew members and six passengers on board is missing in Indonesia’s South Borneo province and a search is underway, the local rescue agency said on Monday. The helicopter was missing in the area of Mantewe, South Borneo province, I Putu Sudayana, the head of the rescue agency told Reuters. …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China hopes Indonesia can take effective measures to protect Chinese nationals in the Southeast Asian country, foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Monday when asked about recent protests in Indonesia. China understands and respects the Indonesian government’s decision to cancel a trip by President Prabowo Subianto to Beijing, Guo also told a …
By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected a new missile production line and missile-manufacturing automation process, state media KCNA said on Monday. His visit on Sunday to the missile production line came ahead of a planned trip to Beijing to attend a military parade where Kim is set to mingle …
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By Ariba Shahid CHINIOT, Pakistan (Reuters) -Across the fertile plains of Pakistan’s Punjab, families are struggling to rebuild their lives after the worst flooding in decades swept away homes, destroyed crops, and drowned livestock. “Thirteen of my 15 acres are gone,” said Muhammad Amjad, 45, a rice and potato farmer in Chiniot, as he stood …
KABUL (Reuters) -Around 500 people have been killed and 1000 more injured in an earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan on Monday, the country’s state-run broadcaster Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) reported. Taliban-led health authorities in Kabul, however, said they were still confirming the official toll figure as they worked to reach remote areas. (Reporting by Charlotte Greenfield, writing by …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand’s Paetongtarn Shinawatra has been dismissed as prime minister, the fifth premier removed by the Constitutional Court in the space of 17 years. The following are the remaining candidates eligible to become prime minister having been nominated by their parties prior to the 2023 election: ANUTIN CHARNVIRAKUL Former deputy prime minister and interior …
By Akhtar Soomro QADIRABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) -Pakistani authorities have evacuated more than a million people from homes in Punjab province this week, officials said on Thursday, as the worst flooding there in four decades caused havoc in hundreds of villages and submerged vital grains crops. Torrential monsoon rain and neighbouring India’s release of excess water …
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By Stefanno Sulaiman and Gayatri Suroyo JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesian political parties have agreed to cut lawmakers’ benefits, President Prabowo Subianto said on Sunday, in a bid to calm anti-government protests that have killed at least five people in the country’s worst violence in decades. Protests began on Monday over what demonstrators called excessive pay and …
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By Laurie Chen and Mei Mei Chu TIANJIN, China (Reuters) -India and China are development partners, not rivals, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed on Sunday, as they discussed ways to improve trade ties amid global tariff uncertainty. Modi is in China for the first time in seven years to attend …
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