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Cambodia and Thailand agree to ASEAN observers to ensure ceasefire holds

7 Aug 2025

By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Cambodia and Thailand’s top defence officials agreed on Thursday to allow observers from the ASEAN regional bloc to inspect disputed border areas and help ensure hostilities do not resume following a violent five-day conflict that ended in a ceasefire late in July.  The Southeast Asian neighbours saw the worst …

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Thai tycoon and Chinese company charged over deadly Bangkok building collapse

7 Aug 2025

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thai prosecutors on Thursday indicted 23 suspects including a construction tycoon and a Chinese state-owned firm for violations that led to the collapse of a building during a powerful earthquake, killing nearly a hundred workers. The partially built 30-storey State Audit Office tower in Bangkok was the only building to collapse from tremors …

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Indonesia readies island medical facility for 2,000 wounded Gazans

7 Aug 2025

JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia will convert a medical facility on its currently uninhabited island of Galang to treat about 2,000 wounded residents of Gaza, who will return home after recovery, a presidential spokesperson said on Thursday. Muslim-majority Indonesia has sent humanitarian aid to Gaza after Israel started an offensive in October 2023 that Gaza health officials …

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Myint Swe, president under Myanmar’s junta, dies, state broadcaster reports

7 Aug 2025

(Reuters) -Myint Swe, who became Myanmar’s president during a 2021 coup against an elected civilian government and immediately handed power to the military, has died a year after going on medical leave, the state broadcaster said on Thursday.  The 74-year-old former general died in hospital on Thursday morning, state-run MRTV said.    He became nominal president …

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South Korea, US to conduct major joint military drills starting August 18

7 Aug 2025

By Jack Kim and Heejin Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea and the United States will conduct major joint military drills starting on August 18, officials said, although they will delay parts of the annual exercises that have been a source of tension with North Korea to later in the year. The 11-day annual exercises, called …

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Returned and reeling: Afghans expelled from Iran struggle to start over

7 Aug 2025

ISLAM QALA, Afghanistan, August 7 (Reuters) -Habiba, an Afghan woman who fled Taliban rule to pursue a master’s degree in engineering in Iran, was deported in July just before she was about to complete her studies.   The 31-year-old, who declined to give her family name for fear of repercussions, said she returned to her homeland …

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Beijing robot store stocks Einstein replicas, chess partners, in AI leadership push

6 Aug 2025

By Che Pan and Florence Lo BEIJING (Reuters) -Fancy a robot chess partner to test your moves on? Perhaps a robotic pet dog? Or a life-sized replica of physicist Albert Einstein that could teach you his theories on relativity? Those are some of over 100 robots that will be sold at a new store in …

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Russian and Chinese navies practice destroying ‘enemy submarine’, days after Trump move

6 Aug 2025

By Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) -The Russian and Chinese navies have practiced hunting and destroying an enemy submarine in the Sea of Japan, Russia’s defence ministry said on Wednesday, days after U.S. President Donald Trump said he had moved two U.S. nuclear subs closer to Russia. Russia said the exercise involved Chinese Y-8 anti-submarine aircraft and …

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Pope Leo criticises nuclear deterrence on 80th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing

6 Aug 2025

By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Leo on Wednesday criticised the “illusory security” of the global nuclear deterrence system, in an appeal on the 80th anniversary of the United States dropping an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima at the end of the Second World War. Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, said …

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