LONDON (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida warned on Thursday that the invasion of Ukraine could be replicated in East Asia if leading powers do not respond as one, saying peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait must be maintained. Kishida, speaking in London via a translator after a meeting with British Prime Minister Boris …
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ROME (Reuters) – World food prices eased slightly in April after hitting a record high in March, but global food security remained a concern because of the difficult market conditions, U.N. food agency said on Friday. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) food price index, which tracks the most globally traded food commodities, averaged 158.5 …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – The International University Sports Federation (FISU) will delay the 31st FISU World University Games in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu from June this year to 2023, state media reported on Friday. This came shortly after two other international games were also delayed or cancelled. The Olympic Council of Asia has said …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said on Friday he intended to communicate closely with South Korea’s incoming government to help bring bilateral ties to an even keel. Relations between Japan and South Korea have been plagued with a territorial row and the legacy of Japan’s 1910-45 colonisation of the Korean peninsula. Hayashi …
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By Amlan Chakraborty NEW DELHI (Reuters) -The Asian Games scheduled to take place in the Chinese city of Hangzhou in September have been postponed until 2023 because of the COVID-19 situation, the governing Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) said on Friday. The 19th edition of the multi-sports Games, second in size only to the Summer …
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By Arshad Mohammed and Robin Emmott (Reuters) – At the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin obliquely raised the possibility of a nuclear strike against anyone who intervened in the conflict. Below are some of the key issues surrounding the possibility – viewed as remote by many analysts and Western diplomats …
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By Eduardo Baptista and David Stanway BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Residents of Beijing fretted on Friday over dozens of new COVID-19 cases reported daily and over the possibility of more restrictions on movements as China’s leaders threatened action against critics of their zero-COVID policy. Incurring a heavy economic cost and facing rare public criticism on its tightly …
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By Ritesh Shukla HINAUTI, India (Reuters) – India’s scorching summer heat adds new risks this year to an energy-sapping challenge that tribal woman Munni Adhivasi has surmounted every day for two decades, by trudging for miles to carry home water. Munni, who said she feared dying in the heat, teared up as she railed against the government’s failure to provide drinking water to more than 200 tribal …
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By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) – In Australia’s election fight, politicians are tiptoeing around the climate wars that have marked the past decade and a half, even as an activist billionaire put the issue front and centre this week, buying a key stake in Australia’s top power producer. Climate-focused investor Mike Cannon-Brookes said his 11% …
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By Alessandra Prentice and Natalia Zinets ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (Reuters) -Scores of Ukrainian civilians including women and children remained trapped on Thursday in a Mariupol steel works that has been rocked by heavy explosions as Russian forces fight for control of Ukraine’s last stronghold in the ruined port city. The United Nations said a new operation …
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