DUSHANBE (Reuters) – One Tajik border guard was killed and three were wounded in a clash with Kyrgyz border guards on Tuesday, four Tajik security sources told Reuters, a new bout of violence between Russia’s Central Asian allies. Clashes along the poorly demarcated and often debated frontier between the two former Soviet republics which both …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – The Taiwan Strait is an international waterway and Taiwan’s government supports U.S. warships transiting it, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday, rebuffing claims from China to exercise sovereignty over the strategic passage. The narrow strait has been a frequent source of military tension since the defeated Republic of China government fled to …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -Authorities in Beijing have launched an investigation into a 24-hour bar they believe to be at the centre of a cluster of more than 250 COVID-19 cases in China’s capital since last week, domestic media said on Tuesday. A team of local government officials will work to investigate and deal with the Heaven …
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By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka has approved a four-day work week for public sector workers to help them cope with a chronic fuel shortage and encourage them to grow food, the government said on Tuesday, as it struggles with its worst financial crisis in decades. The island nation, which employs about one …
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PHONM PENH (Reuters) – A Cambodian court handed down jail sentences on Tuesday to about 60 opposition figures including prominent lawyer Theary Seng for conspiring to commit treason, in a mass trial condemned by the United States and rights groups as politically motivated. Theary Seng, a Cambodian-American lawyer and human rights activist, was among more …
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By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan has raised concerns with China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi over Beijing’s veto at the United Nations of a U.S.-led push to impose more sanctions on North Korea, a senior U.S. official said. Washington has warned that North Korea’s first nuclear test since 2017 could …
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By David Brunnstrom and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will maintain pressure on North Korea until Pyongyang changes course, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday, while his South Korean counterpart urged China to persuade the North not to resume nuclear testing. Blinken told reporters following a meeting with South Korean …
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By Natalia Zinets and Abdelaziz Boumzar KYIV/BAKHMUT, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russian forces tightened their grip on the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk on Monday, a Ukrainian official said, cutting off the last routes for evacuating citizens in a scene that echoed last month’s siege of the port of Mariupol. Amid heavy bombardment, regional governor Sergei Gaidai …
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By Martin Quin Pollard and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) – Authorities in China’s capital Beijing on Monday raced to contain a COVID-19 outbreak traced to a raucous 24-hour bar known for cheap liquor and big crowds, with millions facing mandatory testing and thousands under targeted lockdowns. The outbreak of nearly 200 cases linked to the …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol ordered his top aides on Monday to come up with measures to help ease living costs amid red-hot inflation, local media News1 reported, citing an unnamed official at the presidential office. Yoon also called for ways to reduce the impact on industries from the ongoing truckers strike, …
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