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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said on Monday that 20 Ukrainians will accompany him back to Japan on the official government plane, one part of Japan’s efforts to provide humanitarian relief to Ukrainians fleeing their nation. Hayashi, in Poland, said the 20 Ukrainians were those who expressed a wish to go to …

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JAKARTA (Reuters) – An Indonesian court handed down a death sentence on Monday to a teacher for raping 13 girls at an Islamic school, upholding an appeal by prosecutors for the death penalty after he had initially received a sentence of life in prison. The case of teacher Herry Wirawan has shocked Indonesia and shone …

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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong health authorities reported 3,138 new COVID-19 infections on Monday, down from 3,709 the previous day, and 90 deaths as cases in the global financial centre continue to fall. (Reporting By Twinnie Siu and Anne Marie Roantree; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)

By Engen Tham and Brenda Goh SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Western diplomats have expressed concern about separating children from their parents as part of COVID curbs – a situation that has arisen in Shanghai as the government tries to stamp out the spread of the virus. The city has been separating COVID-positive children from their parents, …

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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – A team of foreign policy and security advisers to South Korea’s president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol is visiting the United States this week, seeking to help engineer a early summit with President Joe Biden and coordinate efforts to rein in North Korea’s intensifying weapons tests, sources said on Monday. Conservative outsider …

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