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N.Korea’s Kim calls Olympics ‘great victory’ for China, calls for better relations

3 Feb 2022

By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a message to Chinese President Xi Jinping congratulating him on the Beijing Winter Olympics as a “great victory” and saying he wanted to improve relations between their countries, state news agency KCNA reported on Friday. “The successful opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics …

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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi faces new bribery charge in string of cases – state TV

3 Feb 2022

(Reuters) – Myanmar’s military government announced a new bribery charge against deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday, the country’s state broadcaster reported. Nobel laureate Suu Kyi, 76, is on trial in nearly a dozen cases that carry combined maximum sentences of at least 150 years in prison. She has been already been …

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Attacks on Pakistan military bases kill seven soldiers, 13 insurgents- army

3 Feb 2022

By Gul Yousafzai and Asif Shahzad QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) -Insurgents armed with bombs and guns attacked two Pakistani military bases overnight, killing seven soldiers while losing 13 of their own men, the army said on Thursday, in the latest violence in the resource-rich southwestern Balochistan province where China is investing. The attacks came hours before …

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Olympics-Tibetans march on IOC headquarters to protest Beijing Games

3 Feb 2022

By Stephanie Nebehay LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) – Several hundred Tibetan and Uyghur activists marched on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday, a day before Beijing 2022 opens, accusing the Swiss-based organisation of complicity in “atrocities” committed against ethnic minorities in China. Hours earlier, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that the Beijing Olympics would be …

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Yelps, tears as Malaysia starts vaccinations for young children

3 Feb 2022

By Ebrahim Harris KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia kicked off a COVID-19 mass vaccination programme on Thursday for children aged between 5 and 11, in an effort to protect the youngest members of its population and increase its high immunisation rate.     At a vaccination centre in the capital Kuala Lumpur, young children sat anxiously …

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Saudi Arabia will help stabilise oil market, Crown Prince tells Japanese PM

3 Feb 2022

TOKYO (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in a phone conversation that the kingdom would contribute to the stabilisation of the international crude oil market, the Japanese government said on Thursday. Tight global supplies and geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe and the Middle East have boosted …

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Streets of tsunami-hit Tonga empty on first day of COVID lockdown

3 Feb 2022

By Stefica Nicol Bikes (Reuters) – The streets of tsunami-hit Tonga were empty and silent on Thursday on the first full day of a lockdown imposed in the previously coronavirus-free nation after two wharf workers were diagnosed with COVID-19. “Normally this road would be queueing with vehicles and people, but as you can see all …

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Erdogan visits Ukraine hoping to play mediator with Russia

3 Feb 2022

By Pavel Polityuk and Orhan Coskun KYIV (Reuters) -President Tayyip Erdogan will discuss tensions between Ukraine and Russia with his counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Thursday, after pitching Turkey as a mediator, and an official said he was not picking any sides in the crisis. Erdogan’s visit to Turkey’s fellow Black Sea nation comes …

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Philippines passes law to tackle anonymous social media abuse

3 Feb 2022

By Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) – Philippines lawmakers have approved legislation requiring social media users to register their legal identities and phone numbers when creating new accounts, a senator said on Thursday, in an ambitious move to thwart online abuse and misinformation. The bill is a rare push by a legislature to compel users …

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