TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday sent a ritual offering to Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine for the war dead and several top ruling party leaders visited, prompting South Korea to express “deep disappointment and regret.” The shrine is seen by Beijing and Seoul as a symbol of Japan’s past military aggression because it …
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By Natalia Zinets (Reuters) – Ukraine proposed talks with Moscow over evacuating troops and civilians from Mariupol after a Russian surrender-or-die ultimatum expired on Wednesday, leaving many trapped at a steel plant, the last main stronghold of resistance. A few dozen civilians managed to leave the strategically important southeastern port in a small bus convoy, …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli police on Wednesday blocked hundreds of far-right Jewish protesters from marching toward Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate, the main entrance to the Old City’s Muslim quarter, amid rising tensions between Israelis and Palestinians. Hours after the march, a rocket launched from Gaza struck Israel, causing slight damage to a home but no injuries, police …
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By Kirsty Needham and Lucy Craymer SYDNEY (Reuters) -A security pact between the Solomon Islands and China will not undermine peace, the prime minister of the Pacific island nation told parliament on Wednesday in a bid to ease the worries of the United States and its allies about China’s growing influence. The security pact is …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The coordinator for the U.N. body monitoring enforcement of sanctions on North Korea said on Wednesday a stepped up focus was needed on cybercrime, which had become fundamental to Pyongyang’s ability to finance its banned weapons programs. Eric Penton-Voak, of the U.N. Security Council’s Panel of Experts on North Korea, noted that …
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By Brenda Goh SHANGHAI (Reuters) – To prepare the 3,000-plus orders of vegetables, meat and essentials her Carrefour supermarket sends out every day to locked-in Shanghai residents, manager Zhang Wei wakes at 5 a.m. after a night in a sleeping bag on her office floor. Zhang and 43 colleagues have been hunkered down inside the …
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By Stella Qiu, Jamie Freed and Allison Lampert (Reuters) -China said on Wednesday the black boxes of a Boeing 737-800 jet that crashed last month were badly damaged, leaving virtually no publicly available clues to explain its violent plunge into a wooded hillside, killing all 132 people on board. China Eastern flight MU5735 from Kunming …
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By Brenda Goh and Ella Cao SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China’s commercial capital of Shanghai reported no new COVID-19 infections outside quarantine areas in two districts on Wednesday, fanning hopes that the tide is turning in its pandemic battle, as some factories began to return to work. State media trumpeted the resumption of production by electric car …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s president-elect, Yoon Suk-yeol, has met the visiting U.S. envoy for North Korea, an official in Yoon’s transition team said on Wednesday, as the allies coordinate North Korea policy under a new government in Seoul. U.S. Special Representative Sung Kim arrived in the South Korean capital on Monday for …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – A Hong Kong opposition activist was jailed for 40 months on Wednesday after the city’s first sedition trial since its handover from British to Chinese rule nearly 25 years ago. Sentencing politician and former radio host Tam Tak-chi in the District Court, judge Stanley Chan said he could not ignore the …
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