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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – China’s envoy to the United Nations said on Monday that a visit by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan would undermine China-U.S. relations. China’s U.N. ambassador Zhang Jun also told a briefing that such a visit by Pelosi would be provocative, and not comparable to the last time …

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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday he is ready to pursue a new nuclear arms deal with Russia and called on Moscow to act in good faith as his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin said there could be no winners in any nuclear war. Both leaders issued written statements …

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By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday urged all nuclear states to conduct themselves “responsibly” in non-proliferation efforts at a time when he said the road to a world without nuclear arms had become much more difficult. Kishida, the leader of the only nation to have suffered wartime nuclear attacks, …

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(Reuters) – Singapore’s foreign minister said on Monday former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was not being accorded any privileges or immunity in Singapore. Rajapaksa landed in Singapore on July 14, a day after fleeing his crisis-ridden country via Maldives and following a popular uprising that forced him to resign as president. “In general, the …

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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Several Taiwan media outlets reported late on Monday that U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi will visit Taiwan on Tuesday and spend the night in Taipei, citing unidentified sources. China has warned that its military would never “sit idly by” if Pelosi were to visit Taiwan, the self-ruled island claimed by …

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MANILA (Reuters) – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Monday ruled out the Philippines rejoining the International Criminal Court (ICC), whose prosecutor plans to resume an investigation into the previous government’s bloody “war on drugs”. The Philippines withdrew from the ICC in 2019, with then President Rodrigo Duterte accusing it of prejudice by starting a preliminary …

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