NEW DELHI (Reuters) -At least seven people, including two children, died after a wall collapsed following heavy rain in India’s capital, New Delhi, local media reported on Saturday. The victims, casual labourers and their families, were pulled from the debris and taken to hospital after Friday night’s rain, the reports said, citing senior police official …
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By Irene Wang and Issei Kato NAGASAKI (Reuters) -Thousands bowed their heads in prayer in Nagasaki on Saturday to mark the 80th anniversary of the city’s atomic bombing, as the mayor warned that current global conflicts could push the world again into nuclear war. The western Japanese city was levelled on August 9, 1945, when …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s military said on Saturday it had detected North Korean military dismantling some propaganda loudspeakers aimed at the South in parts of the border area, following similar moves by the South. This is the first time Seoul has made such a statement since President Lee Jae Myung became president two months ago …
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(Reuters) -Saturday marks the 80th anniversary of the U.S. military’s dropping of an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima ushered in the age of nuclear weapons. Following are some facts about the bombings, the only times nuclear weapons have been used in war. Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945, ending …
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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele has said that 21 donor countries, including the United States and China, will not be invited to the region’s top political meeting, a move that follows pressure from Beijing to exclude Taiwan. China’s biggest security ally in the Pacific Islands, the Solomon Islands is …
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Sunnyda Yok Nun, a 38-year-old woman from Malaysia’s Semai tribe, remembers seeing gibbons for the first time while she was training to protect the animals as part of the country’s first all-female, all-Indigenous wildlife ranger unit. Drawn to gibbons since she was a child, Sunnyda, also known as Cidot, said of their …
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By Greg Torode, Ben Blanchard and Yimou Lee HONG KONG/TAIPEI (Reuters) -The exercise presented a fraught scenario: China’s military had blockaded Taiwan by air and sea, and Southeast Asian countries were grappling with how to evacuate as many as 1 million of their nationals trapped on the besieged island. Over two days in April at …
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KARACHI, Pakistan -Pakistani security forces killed 33 militants trying to cross from Afghanistan overnight, the military said on Friday, describing them as “Indian-sponsored”. The fighters were intercepted and engaged with “precise” fire, the military’s public relations wing said, adding that weapons, ammunition and explosives were recovered. Pakistan and India, nuclear-armed neighbours with a history of …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China is pleased to see Russia and the United States maintaining contact and improving ties to advance a political resolution of the Ukraine crisis, President Xi Jinping said in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday. Beijing will maintain its stance on the need for peace talks and a diplomatic …
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By Liz Lee GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) -The several hundred residents of Pingtou, a village in China’s sub-tropical south, have seen plenty of typhoons and rainstorms over the years. But nothing prepared them for this week’s flooding – the worst there in generations. Knee-deep brown water still covered the main road into the village, in Guangdong …
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