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MANILA (Reuters) – Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Tuesday said he wanted ties with Beijing to be about more than a South China Sea dispute, and stressed the need for multilateral engagement in dealing with conflicts. “We have our relationship not only on one dimension,” Marcos told a news conference ahead of a visit …

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By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan on Tuesday approved imports from neighbouring Afghanistan in exchange for local currency, a move mainly aimed at buying coal to help ease an energy shortage. The decision was taken in a meeting of Pakistan’s Economic Coordination Committee (ECC), a finance ministry statement said. The ECC approved amendment in …

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By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistan on Tuesday said it had arrested a militant who provided technical support for a deadly suicide bomb attack on Chinese teachers at Karachi University in April. A suspected female suicide bomber killed three Chinese teachers, drawing strong condemnation from Beijing, in the first major attack this …

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The city of Shanghai on Tuesday announced two new rounds of mass COVID-19 testing of most of its 25 million residents over a three-day period, citing the need to trace infections linked to an outbreak at a karaoke lounge. The city government said on its official WeChat account that all residents in …

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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Macau reported 89 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, taking the total to more than 900 infections since mid-June, as authorities in the world’s biggest gambling hub race to contain its largest outbreak since the pandemic began. More than 13,000 people are under quarantine in the Chinese special administrative region, which has …

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(Repeats to additional subscribers) By Greg Torode HONG KONG (Reuters) -Monsignor Javier Herrera-Corona, the Vatican’s unofficial representative in Hong Kong, delivered a stark message to the city’s 50-odd Catholic missions before finishing his six-year posting in March: the freedoms they had enjoyed for decades were over. In four meetings held over several months, starting in …

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BEIJING (Reuters) – Heatwaves are predicted to sweep through northern China in the next two weeks, with more than 250 million people expected to grapple with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in some regions. For four to six days, the regions of Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia, and the provinces of Hebei, …

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