By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Friday he would nominate Sergio Gor, one of his closest aides, to be the next U.S. ambassador to India, where he will oversee frosty relations that have worsened with the planned doubling of U.S. tariffs on goods from India next week. Gor, who is currently …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with South Korea’s foreign minister, Cho Hyun, on Friday in Washington, and they discussed burden sharing and fair trade ahead of a planned summit between the two countries, the U.S. Department of State said on Friday. U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Vietnam has significantly expanded island-building work in areas it claims in the Spratly Islands chain of the disputed South China Sea and will match and likely surpass the scale of such activity there by China, a U.S. think tank reported on Friday. Recent satellite imagery showed that since the start of this year, …
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By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) -Former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who led the country during a devastating economic crisis, was arrested and remanded in custody on Friday over allegations he misused state funds while in office, police said. Wickremesinghe, 76, who lost power in a 2024 election, had been investigated over a visit he …
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By Ruma Paul COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) -Begum, a Rohingya refugee, is relieved she married off one of her seven daughters before funding cuts closed her school and thousands of others in Bangladesh’s cramped refugee camps, affecting nearly half a million children. The daughter, Begum’s second born, was 16. “Without school, girls sit idle. People …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia’s deputy manpower minister was dismissed and charged with extortion on Friday after anti-graft investigators accused him of benefiting from illegal fees for the processing of safety permits. The graft investigation was the first to implicate a member of President Prabowo Subianto’s cabinet. Prabowo, who was sworn in last October, has campaigned against …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to China from August 31 to September 1 to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin at the invitation of China’s President Xi Jinping, New Delhi said on Friday. Prior to that, Modi will visit Japan from August 29-30 for the 15th India-Japan Annual …
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan’s economy minister said on Friday he had resigned for health reasons, ahead of a widely expected cabinet reshuffle as the government faces domestic challenges including trying to work with an opposition-dominated legislature. One of the ministry’s key roles is overseeing the crucial semiconductor sector in Taiwan, home to the world’s largest contract …
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By Akhtar Soomro and Asif Shahzad QADIR NAGAR, Pakistan (Reuters) -Two days before his wedding, Noor Muhammad had a long phone call with his mother, just hours before devastating floods in Pakistan killed her along with 23 family members and relatives. “I cannot explain how happy she was,” he said standing by the rubble of …
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By Joyce Lee and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un lauded his country’s “heroic” troops who fought for Russia in the war against Ukraine, in a ceremony where he decorated returning soldiers and consoled children of the bereaved with hugs, state media said on Friday. Kim said in a speech quoted …
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