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MADRID (Reuters) – NATO does not see China as an adversary but it is concerned about Beijing’s ever closer ties with Moscow since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday. “We don’t regard China as an adversary,” Stoltenberg said on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Madrid, adding that China …

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, in Germany to attend the Group of Seven leaders summit, said on Tuesday that Japan will extend an additional $100 million in humanitarian aid to Ukraine. He added that Japan would also provide support to expand Ukraine’s grain storage capacity as the harvest season nears. Kishida travels …

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By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s economy contracted 1.6% in the January to March quarter versus the same period a year earlier, data showed on Tuesday, and is expected to shrink even more in the current quarter amid the nation’s worst financial crisis in decades. A severe dollar shortage has left the island …

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BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China slashed the quarantine time for inbound travellers by half on Tuesday, in a major easing of COVID-19 curbs that have deterred cross-border travel and resulted in international flights running at just 2% of pre-pandemic levels. Quarantine at centralised facilities has been cut to seven days from 14, and subsequent at-home health monitoring …

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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia will set up a defence school to train Pacific island militaries, Canberra’s new Pacific minister said, amid mounting competition for security ties in the region and as China lays plans for a rival meeting to next month’s Pacific Islands Forum. Australia will double its funding for aerial surveillance …

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By Neil Jerome Morales and Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a final bid to disqualify President-elect Ferdinand Marcos from last month’s election, clearing the way for his inauguration later this week and the return to rule of the country’s most famous dynasty. Marcos, 64, the son and namesake …

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By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong returned to China in 1997 after 156 years of British colonial rule. China promised the city wide-ranging freedoms denied to those in mainland China for 50 years, although some say China has reneged on those promises, especially since 2020 under a new national security paradigm. Here’s …

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BEIJING (Reuters) – The Walt Disney Co’s Shanghai Disney Resort said on Tuesday it would reopen the Disneyland theme park on June 30, a month after the Chinese economic hub lifted a two month-long COVID-19 lockdown. The theme park has been shut since March 21, when the resort closed its doors amid an uptick of …

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