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Fire at illegal oil well in Indonesia kills three, hundreds evacuated

19 Aug 2025

JAKARTA (Reuters) -Firefighters in Indonesia are struggling to contain a three-day-old fire at an illegal oil well that has killed at least three people and injured two others, a disaster relief official said on Tuesday. Some 750 people have been evacuated from the densely populated areas around the site, located in Central Java province’s Blora …

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Former Hong Kong lawmaker says Australian asylum grant shows territory infringed rights

19 Aug 2025

By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Exiled former Hong Kong lawmaker Ted Hui hailed Australia’s grant of asylum status as a key acknowledgement of the territory’s human rights infringements since its authorities quelled massive pro-democracy protests in 2019. Hui, who also urged support for businessman Jimmy Lai now being tried on national security charges, received asylum …

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Russian parliament speaker to visit China, Vedomosti says

19 Aug 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin is due to visit China this week as head of a parliamentary delegation, the Vedomosti newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing unidentified sources. Volodin will visit Beijing and Changchun, the newspaper said. Russian President Vladimir Putin is due to visit China at the end of August and early …

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Responding to Trump invasion comments, Taiwan says must rely on itself for security

19 Aug 2025

TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan must rely on itself for its security, the island’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday, responding to U.S. President Donald Trump saying Chinese President Xi Jinping told him he would not invade the island while Trump was in office. Democratic Taiwan has over the past five years or so faced ramped up military …

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North Korea’s Kim calls for rapid nuclear buildup amid US-South Korea exercises

19 Aug 2025

By Ju-min Park and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country needed to rapidly expand its nuclear armament and called U.S.-South Korea military exercises an “obvious expression of their will to provoke war,” state media KCNA reported on Tuesday. South Korea and its ally the United States kicked off …

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Thailand records 7.04% y/y drop in foreign visitors so far in 2025

19 Aug 2025

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand’s foreign tourist arrivals from January 1 to August 17 fell 7.04% from the same period a year earlier, the Tourism Ministry said on Tuesday. There were about 20.81 million foreign visitors during the period, it said in a statement. China was the largest source market, with 2.93 million visitors. On Monday, the …

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India, China envoys discuss border peace, trade to boost cooperation

19 Aug 2025

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Monday discussed border peace, trade issues and bilateral exchanges, aiming to strengthen cooperation between the two countries. “We had productive conversations on our economic and trade issues, pilgrimages, people-to-people contacts, river data sharing, border trade, connectivity and bilateral exchanges,” Jaishankar …

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Pakistani villagers scared to go back to deluged homes after floods kill over 340

18 Aug 2025

By Akhtar Soomro BUNER, Pakistan (Reuters) -Residents of a northwestern Pakistani district where devastating floods have killed more than 200 people said on Monday they were too scared to go back to their deluged homes as authorities warned of more rains to come. “Everybody is scared. Children are scared. They cannot sleep,” said Sahil Khan, …

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Hong Kong democrat Jimmy Lai given heart monitor for final stretch of marathon trial

18 Aug 2025

By Jessie Pang and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai was given medication and a heart monitor on Monday for the start of final submissions in a landmark national security trial after concerns over his health delayed proceedings last week. Lai, 77, who founded the Apple Daily newspaper that …

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