SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea reported 167,650 more people had fever symptoms and one more person had died amid the country’s first acknowledged COVID-19 outbreak, state news agency KCNA said on Monday. It did not report how many of those people had tested positive for the coronavirus. (Reporting by Soo-hyang Choi; Editing by Chris Reese)
By Conor Humphries and Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or any territorial concessions to Moscow as Russia stepped up its attack in the eastern and southern parts of the country, pounding the Donbas and Mykolaiv regions with air strikes and artillery fire. Kyiv’s stance has become increasingly uncompromising in recent …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) -President Joe Biden arrived in Japan on Sunday to launch a plan for greater U.S. economic engagement with the Indo-Pacific, facing criticism even before the programme is announced that it will offer scant benefit to countries in the region. On the second leg of his first Asia …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – A former transport minister in the Thai government ousted by a 2014 military coup won Bangkok’s first governor election for nine years on Sunday in what some observers say is a sign of the waning popularity of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha. Independent candidate Chadchart Sittipunt, 55, won the election by a record …
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By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistan’s opposition leader and former prime minister Imran Khan on Sunday announced the date of a march to Islamabad to demand dissolution of assemblies and a date for elections, as the South Asian nation continues to slide into political and economic crisis. Former premier Imran Khan, who …
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(Reuters) – A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck near the east coast of Honshu, Japan’s main island on Sunday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of 60 kms (37 miles), EMSC said. (Reporting by Abinaya Vijayaraghavan in Bengaluru; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
By Trevor Hunnicutt ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) – The United States is looking to deepen its economic partnership with Taiwan even if though it is excluded from President Joe Biden’s new Asian economic initiative, a top official said. “Taiwan won’t be part of the launch,” of Biden’s Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF), U.S. …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing reported 94 new domestically transmitted COVID-19 infections for the 24 hours to 3 p.m. (0700 GMT) on Sunday, up from 63 cases a day earlier, a disease control official in the Chinese capital said. Of those, 77 were in controlled areas and 17 were found through community screening, Liu Xiaofeng, deputy …
By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s Labor Party will form the country’s next government on Monday, as unprecedented support for the Greens and climate-focussed independents ended nearly a decade of rule by the conservative coalition. Centre-left Labor remains four to five seats short of a majority of 76 in the 151 seat lower house with …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden, in Seoul before heading to Japan as part of his first Asia trip as president, had a simple message for North Korea’s Kim Jong Un: “Hello… period,” he told reporters on the last day of his visit to South Korea on Sunday. Biden …
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