BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and 10 cabinet ministers survived no-confidence votes in parliament on Saturday, with the government emerging on top in Prayuth’s last major test ahead of a general election due within 11 months. The 68-year-old former army chief, in power since a coup he led in 2014, received 256 votes …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – The suspected assassin of Japanese former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will undergo psychiatric evaluation until later this year, Japanese media reported on Saturday. Tetsuya Yamagami, an unemployed 41-year-old, has been identified by police as the suspect who approached Abe at a campaign speech on a street corner on July 8 and opened …
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Mainland China reported 817 new COVID-19 cases for July 22, of which 164 were symptomatic and 653 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Saturday. That compares with 1,011 new cases a day earlier – 175 symptomatic and 836 asymptomatic infections, which China counts separately. China’s capital, Beijing, reported one new …
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(Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s Election Commission on Friday appointed Wajira Abeywardena as a member of Parliament to fill the seat left vacant after Ranil Wickremesinghe was elected president. Wickremesinghe assumed the office of Sri Lanka’s acting president on Wednesday, after winning 134 of the 225 votes in parliament. (Reporting by Jose Joseph in Bengaluru; editing …
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By Toby Sterling and Poppy McPherson THE HAGUE (Reuters) -The World Court on Friday rejected Myanmar’s objections to a genocide case over its treatment of the Muslim Rohingya minority, paving the way for the case to be heard in full. Myanmar, now ruled by a military junta that seized power in 2021, had argued that …
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) – World Court judges on Friday dismissed objections by Myanmar to a genocide case brought against it for its treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority, paving the way for the case to proceed. (Reporting by Toby Sterling; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
By Devjyot Ghoshal, Uditha Jayasinghe and Alasdair Pal COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lankan security forces raided and partially cleared a protest camp occupying government grounds in Colombo early on Friday, fuelling fears that President Ranil Wickremesinghe had launched a crackdown a day after being sworn in. Media footage showed soldiers in riot gear and armed with …
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(Reuters) – The United States’ Ambassador to Sri Lanka said she met the new president to express her “grave concern” over violence against protesters in Colombo early on Friday. “This is not the time to crack down on citizens, but instead to look ahead at the immediate and tangible steps the Government can take to …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – A Thai minister on Friday sought to walk back remarks before parliament that authorities had used spyware to monitor individuals, U-turning on his admission just days earlier that surveillance software was actively being used. Under questioning on Tuesday from opposition lawmakers alleging use of Israeli-made Pegasus spyware, Digital Economy and Society Minister …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan will create a ministerial post targeted at nurturing business startups and another to promote decarbonisation, Kyodo news agency quoted Prime Minister Fumio Kishida as telling a meeting of business leaders on Friday. “We will prepare an unprecedented support system that sparks long-term, large-scale private investments (in decarbonisation),” Kyodo quoted Kishida as …
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