By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) – When filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen was 15 years old, an Afghan teenager arrived in his rural Danish village. Word got out the youngster had fled after his entire family was killed and had made the long journey to the Scandinavian country on foot. Over time, the two became close …
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen admitted an “unintentional mistake” on Monday in taking credit for helping to free an Australian in Myanmar whom the military government said was not being released. Sean Turnell, an economic adviser to deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, was arrested on Feb. 6 last year, …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan said on Monday it will “adjust” restrictions on Japanese food imports put in place following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, setting up a fight with the main opposition party which has vowed to fight any lifting of curbs. The World Health Organization said in 2016 that Japan had monitored food contamination …
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By Sara Cheng HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong residents crowded supermarkets and neighbourhood fresh food markets on Monday to stock up on vegetables, noodles and other necessities after a record number of COVID-19 infections in the city and transport disruptions at the border with mainland China. The city of 7.5 million people reported a …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan will host a high-level delegation from Somalia’s breakaway Somaliland region this week, the government said on Monday, as the island pursues diplomacy in Africa in the face of Chinese pressure to limit its international footprint. Somaliland broke away from Somalia in 1991 but has not gained widespread international recognition for its …
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By Renju Jose and Jamie Freed SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia said on Monday it will reopen its borders to vaccinated travellers this month, ending two years of misery for the tourism sector, reviving migration and injecting billions of dollars into the world No. 13 economy. The move effectively calls time on the last main component of …
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By Karolos Grohmann BEIJING (Reuters) – Olympic athletes are almost super-human when it comes to training, competing and… eating. Consuming the equivalent of almost two dozen plates of pasta a day may be impossible for most people but not for Olympic athletes and especially cross-countries skiers at Beijing 2022. “I have something to eat every …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s United Nations envoy has rejected his U.S. counterpart’s remark that China’s choice of an ethnic Uyghur as a torchbearer for the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics was an attempt to distract from his country’s alleged rights abuses against Muslim minorities. Ambassador Zhang Jun said in …
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A Himalayan avalanche trapped a patrol team of seven Indian Army personnel in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh near China on Sunday and they have yet to be rescued, a defence ministry official said on Monday. The team was on duty in the Kameng region, high in the Himalayas, which …
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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday he wants to speed up the country’s COVID-19 booster shot programme to 1 million shots a day by the end of the month, about double the current pace. Kishida told a televised parliamentary budget committee meeting that he has instructed ministers to work with local …
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