TOKYO (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Meari lashed Japan’s main island of Honshu with heavy rain on Saturday with further downpours forecast as it approaches the capital Tokyo. Meari is forecast to dump as much as 300 millimetres of rain on parts of central Honshu, Japan’s weather bureau said, threatening to disrupt the country’s “bon” holiday …
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By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s foreign ministry said on Friday it had imposed sanctions on Lithuanian Deputy Transport and Communications Minister Agne Vaiciukeviciute for visiting Taiwan, the latest development in Beijing’s diplomatic row with the European Union country. The foreign ministry said China would also suspend engagement with Vaiciukeviciute’s ministry and cooperation on …
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By Kanishka Singh and Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writing, was stabbed in the neck and torso onstage at a lecture in New York state on Friday and airlifted to a hospital, police said. After …
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(Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck the Moro Gulf, Mindanao region in the Philippines on Saturday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km ( 6.21 miles), EMSC said. (Reporting by Rhea Binoy in Bengaluru; Editing by Michael Perry)
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan on Friday blamed “political considerations” for the cancellation of WorldPride 2025 Taiwan after it said the organisers had insisted the word “Taiwan” be removed. Taiwan participates in global organisations like the Olympics as “Chinese Taipei”, to avoid political problems with China, which views the democratically governed island as its own territory and …
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By Randi Love (Reuters) -Here are reactions to Friday’s attack on novelist Salman Rushdie. SUZANNE NOSSEL, CEO OF FREE EXPRESSION ORGANIZATION PEN AMERICA: “We can think of no comparable incident of a public attack on a literary writer on American soil. Just hours before the attack, on Friday morning, Salman had emailed me to help …
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By Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Miguel Gutierrez KABUL/SALAMANCA, Spain (Reuters) – As thousands of Afghans crowded outside Kabul airport a year ago desperately trying to escape the Taliban, Massouda Kohistani managed to fight her way on to a foreign military flight bound for the Gulf and ended up in Spain. Her mother and more than …
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By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell said on Friday that China “overreacted” to U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan and used it as a pretext to try to change the status quo in the Taiwan Strait. The American response would be patient and effective, and the U.S. …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – In Seoul for meetings with South Korean leaders, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday said he fully supports efforts to completely denuclearize North Korea. “I would like to take this opportunity to express our full support for the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, especially North Korea, and …
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By Joyce Lee, Soo-hyang Choi and Heekyong Yang SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol pardoned Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee on Friday, with the justice ministry saying the business leader was needed to help overcome a “national economic crisis”. The pardon is largely symbolic, with Lee already out on parole after …
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