BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand had rescued 59 Rohingya refugees, including children, from an island who had been abandoned by people smugglers on an island close to the Malaysian border, police said on Sunday. The Rohingya – 31 men, 23 women, and five children – were found on Dong island in Satun province, which borders Malaysia, …
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(Reuters) – The deadly fire at a container depot in southeast Bangladesh on Saturday night was the latest in a string of major fire incidents. Safety rules are often violated in Bangladesh, especially in industrial settings, and fires in factories and other buildings have killed hundreds of people since 2005. DECEMBER 2021 At least 38 …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -Beijing will further relax COVID-19 curbs by allowing indoor dining, as China’s capital steadily returns to normal with inflections falling, state media said on Sunday. Beijing and the commercial hub Shanghai have been returning to normal in recent days after two months of painful lockdowns to crush outbreaks of the Omicron variant. Dine-in …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) -A Chinese fighter aircraft dangerously intercepted an Australian military surveillance plane in the South China Sea region in May, Australia’s defence department said on Sunday. The Royal Australian Air Force P-8 maritime surveillance aircraft was intercepted by a Chinese J-16 fighter during “routine maritime surveillance activity” in international airspace in the region on …
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By Byungwook Kim and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea fired eight short-range ballistic missiles towards the sea off its east coast on Sunday, likely its largest single test, a day after South Korea and the United States ended joint military drills. The bilateral exercises involved an American aircraft carrier for the first time in …
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By Ryan Woo and Ella Cao BEIJING (Reuters) -China sent three astronauts on Sunday on a six-month long mission to oversee a pivotal period of construction of its space station, whose final modules are due to be launched in the coming months. The space station, when completed by the year-end, will lay a significant milestone …
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MANILA (Reuters) – A restive volcano in the central Philippines spewed a column of ash at least 1 km (0.6 mile) into the sky on Sunday, prompting authorities to raise the alert at Mount Bulusan by one notch and remind residents not to enter the danger zone. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raised …
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By Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Saturday it had recaptured a swathe of the battlefield city of Sievierodonetsk, where intense fighting continued, in a rare counter-offensive against Russia’s main assault force that had been steadily advancing in the east. The Ukrainian claim could not be independently verified, and Moscow said its own forces …
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LUCKNOW (Reuters) -At least 10 people were killed and 22 injured in a chemicals explosion at an electronics factory in northern India’s Hapur district on Saturday, a police official said. The accident happened at an industrial facility in Dhaulana, about 60 km (37 miles) from the capital, New Delhi, police spokesman Surendra Singh said. “The …
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By Sarah Wu and Jessie Pang TAIPEI/HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hundreds of people gathered in Taipei on Saturday to commemorate China’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square 33 years ago. Chinese-run Hong Kong deployed heavy security to prevent any sign of protest there. Saturday is the anniversary of Chinese troops opening fire to …
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