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By Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan left for Moscow on Wednesday to push for the construction of a long-delayed, multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline to be built in collaboration with Russian companies, an official said. Khan’s trip to meet President Vladimir Putin and discuss issues including economic cooperation comes hours after …

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By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea on Wednesday test-fired a long-range surface-to-air missile, Yonhap news agency reported, a month after North Korea tested a record number of increasingly powerful missiles potentially capable of evading defences in the South. An L-SAM was successfully launched from a testing site in Taean, 150 km (90 miles) …

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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Cambodia started vaccinating children as young as three against COVID-19 on Wednesday, becoming one of the first countries to cover the age group of those below five. The Southeast Asian nation has vaccinated more than 90% of its population of 16 million, for one of the highest rates in the region, …

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By Alexander Ratz BERLIN (Reuters) – Ahmad, a 30-year-old Afghan who worked for the German military, is now in hiding in Kabul in fear of his life.     Like many other local staff who worked for Western governments and their armies, Ahmad was left behind when the International Security Assistance Force pulled out in August. …

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By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – The international community should form a strategy to provide North Korea with at least 60 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to head off humanitarian disaster, an independent U.N. human rights investigator said on Wednesday. The vaccines could be a way to persuade the country to ease lockdowns that have …

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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s satellite venture has launched a free high-speed internet service to connect remote villages in Tonga that have been cut off since a devastating volcanic eruption and tsunami in January. Tonga’s prime minister, Siaosi Sovaleni, said in a ceremony on Wednesday in the capital, Nuku’alofa, that 50 VSAT …

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By David Stanway SHANGHAI (Reuters) -The cost of raising a child in China stands at nearly seven times its per capita GDP, far more than in the United States and Japan, highlighting the challenges facing Chinese policymakers as they try to tackle rapidly declining birth rates, new research showed. Experts warn China’s ageing population will …

Bringing up a child costlier in China than in U.S., Japan – research Read More »

BEIJING (Reuters) – China has never thought sanctions are the best way to solve problems, its foreign ministry said on Wednesday, when asked if the Asian nation would join Western countries in sanctioning Russia over Ukraine. China hopes relevant parties can try to resolve their issues through dialogue and remain calm and exercise restraint, ministry …

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