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Baseball-‘Sho-time’ as Japan celebrates Ohtani’s World Series triumph

31 Oct 2024

By Akiko Okamoto TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese baseball fans celebrated along with their Los Angeles counterparts as local hero Shohei Ohtani added baseball’s biggest prize to his already huge collection of trophies by winning the World Series with the Dodgers.     Ohtani, who played six years at the Los Angeles Angels without once making the playoffs, …

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UN Security Council asked to meet on Monday on North Korea missile launch

31 Oct 2024

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council is likely to meet on Monday, two diplomats said, over North Korea’s test on Thursday of what Pyongyang said was an intercontinental ballistic missile. The United States, France, Japan, Malta, South Korea, Slovenia and Britain requested the meeting, the diplomats said. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres …

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Red Cross denounces lack of conflict mediation as aid needs explode

31 Oct 2024

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – A lack of political leadership in brokering peace deals is prolonging conflicts and stretching aid groups tasked with addressing their worst impacts, a senior official of the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Thursday. By the ICRC’s count, more than 120 armed conflicts are raging around the …

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Indonesian court orders changes to some labour rules

31 Oct 2024

By Ananda Teresia JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled that changes must be made to some labour rules including ordering the establishment of sectoral minimum wages, in response to a petition by several workers unions. Unions had petitioned the court about a controversial Job Creation law they said went against workers’ rights …

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Ukraine names North Korean generals it says are with troops in Russia

31 Oct 2024

By Josh Smith (Reuters) -The Ukrainian government has named three North Korean generals it says are accompanying the thousands of Korean People’s Army troops deployed to Russia in aid of Moscow’s war in Ukraine. In prepared remarks to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday, Ukraine’s delegation said the three generals were among at least 500 …

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South Korean officials block bid to send balloons carrying leaflets into North

31 Oct 2024

By Hyunsu Yim PAJU, South Korea (Reuters) – South Korean authorities in a village near the border with North Korea thwarted a plan on Thursday by a group of families of those believed to have been abducted by the North to send aloft balloons with leaflets criticising it, the group said. The failed bid to …

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Six dead as boat carrying nearly 100 Rohingya arrives in Indonesia

31 Oct 2024

JAKARTA (Reuters) -Six people have died as nearly 100 Rohingya landed by boat in Indonesia’s Aceh province, a local fishing community said on Thursday, in the latest wave of arrivals to the Southeast Asian country in recent days. Miftach Tjut Adek, chief of the community, told Reuters that the 96 arrivals, including seven children, were …

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What are solid-fuel missiles, and why is North Korea developing them?

31 Oct 2024

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea said it launched an intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday, in what South Korean officials said could be related to its development of new solid-fuel rocket engines. South Korea’s defense minister said on Wednesday the North could seek new ICBM technology from Russia in exchange for deploying its troops …

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Indonesia to respond appropriately to South China Sea incidents, official says

31 Oct 2024

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s position on the South China Sea remains unchanged and it will respond appropriately to safeguard its territory, an official said on Thursday, after a Chinese coast guard vessel interrupted a survey by Jakarta’s state energy firm. Indonesia said last week it had driven the Chinese coast guard ship away three times …

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Dozens of North Korean defectors caught by secret police ‘vanish’, says rights group

31 Oct 2024

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – More than 100 North Koreans have gone missing after being caught by secret police while trying to defect from the isolated country or even for trying to call relatives in South Korea, a Seoul-based human rights group said on Thursday.  The Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG) released a report …

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