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By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – There are increasing signs that North Korea could soon test a nuclear weapon for the first time since 2017 in a bid to improve its arsenal and increase political pressure, U.S. and South Korean officials and analysts said. Two U.S. officials told Reuters that there were indications, including activity …

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China’s commercial hub of Shanghai ground to halt on Friday after the government locked down most of the city’s 26 million residents to stop the spread of COVID-19, even as official numbers put local cases falling for the second day in a row. The city government late on Thursday extended an existing lockdown …

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By Alexander Cornwell ABU DHABI (Reuters) -The United States still needs other nations to take Afghans who fled their homeland last year, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Friday, six months after Washington’s chaotic withdrawal as the hard-line Islamist Taliban took control. Washington has been urging its partners to take Afghans who do …

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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Police on the Thai island of Koh Samui are not treating the death on Friday of Australian cricket great Shane Warne as suspicious, a local police officer said. Warne was discovered unconscious late Friday afternoon by three friends staying in the same villa, who tried unsuccessfully to revive him, Chatchawin Nakmusik of …

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies agreed on Friday they would impose further sanctions on Russia if Moscow does not stop attacking Ukraine, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said. “We called on Russia to immediately stop its attack on Ukraine, which has even harmed ordinary citizens, and withdraw …

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By Tommy Ardiansyah SUKABUMI, Indonesia (Reuters) – Tini Kasmawati uses a crude pulley system to raise a bucket of bananas into the canopy of an Indonesian rainforest. Within minutes, a silvery gibbon, a baby clinging to its chest, swings through the trees and grabs a few. For nearly eight years, Tini, 49, has been on …

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