By Angie Teo JAKARTA (Reuters) – Fellow villagers have praised an Indonesian man for capturing a crocodile longer than 4 metres (13 ft) on the island of Sulawesi using just a rope. The giant reptile can be seen in a video being secured around the jaws by Usman, who, like many Indonesians, goes by one …
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By Andrea Shalal SCHLOSS ELMAU, Germany (Reuters) -Group of Seven leaders pledged on Sunday to raise $600 billion in private and public funds over five years to finance needed infrastructure in developing countries and counter China’s older, multitrillion-dollar Belt and Road project. U.S. President Joe Biden and other G7 leaders relaunched the newly renamed “Partnership …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China will start implementing rules on management of internet user accounts from Aug. 1, the Cyberspace Administration of China said in statements on Monday. The rules asks internet service providers to verify the identification of users and also show the IP address for users. (Reporting by Beijing newsroom; Editing by Toby Chopra)
By Kate Lamb and Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian President Joko Widodo, the chair of the Group of 20 (G20) nations, will urge Russia and Ukraine to rekindle peace talks, and seek ways to free up exports of grain to global markets when he visits Moscow and Kyiv in coming days. President Widodo, better …
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By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong on July 1 will mark its 25th anniversary under Chinese rule. The financial hub returned to China from Britain in 1997, with promises of wide-ranging freedoms and autonomy under “one country, two systems” governance. Critics, including some Western governments, say China has reneged on those promises …
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SCHLOSS ELMAU, Germany (Reuters) – Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations mocked the macho image of their absent adversary Vladimir Putin on Sunday, at a meeting in Germany dominated by the Russian President’s invasion of Ukraine. As the besuited leaders sat down for their first meeting of the three-day G7 summit in the …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – A huge blaze in Bangkok torched buildings and cars in a market community near the city’s Chinatown district on Sunday, killing at least two, with nine others suffering smoke inhalation, according to the Thai capital’s governor and local media. There were several flashes and loud bangs, and people shouted that a power …
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka is struggling to secure fresh fuel supplies, a top government minister said on Sunday, as the crisis-hit country of 22 million people is down to just 15,000 tons of petrol and diesel to keep essential services running in the coming days. The island is wilting under its …
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YOKOHAMA (Reuters) – The Japanese government warned on Sunday that electric power supplies would be strained in the Tokyo area on Monday, calling on people to save energy as scorching summer heat batters the capital. In Tokyo and eight nearby prefectures in eastern Japan, excess generating capacity will drop as low as 3.7% for half …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Shanghai will gradually resume dining-in at restaurants from June 29 in low-risk areas and areas without any community-level spread of COVID-19 during the previous week，a Shanghai government official said on Sunday. The Chinese econonic hub lifted a two month city-wide lockdown on June 1, but many establishments have remained unable to offer …
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