HANOI (Reuters) -Flooding triggered by heavy rain has left at least 14 people dead or missing in Vietnam’s northern province of Dien Bien, state media reported on Friday. Floodwater rose quickly on Thursday night after hours of heavy rain, inundating houses in low-lying areas and causing flash floods and mudslides in mountainous parts of the …
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By Ananda Teresia JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto pardoned two political rivals, a former trade minister and a senior politician from an opposition party a few weeks after both were sentenced to jail, officials said. Prabowo granted amnesty to Hasto Kristiyanto, the secretary general of parliament’s largest party, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle …
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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan is “seriously concerned” that Myanmar’s planned elections without release of those detained could provoke “further strong backlash from the people” and “make a peaceful resolution more difficult”, Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said on Friday. Japan once again strongly urges the Myanmar military to stop the violence immediately, release those detained including former …
(Reuters) -Myanmar’s military on Thursday nominally transferred power to a civilian-led interim government ahead of a planned election, with the junta chief remaining in charge of the war-torn country in his other role as acting president. An announcement in state media said a decree that granted power to the military after its 2021 coup had …
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By James Pomfret and Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -A leading Macau democrat, Au Kam San, was arrested for collusion with foreign forces to endanger national security and was held in detention on Thursday in what is the first known arrest under the China-ruled city’s national security law. Au, 68, is one of Macau’s most …
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LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) -A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Thursday sentenced more than 100 members of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party to prison terms on charges related to riots that targeted military sites in 2023, a court order said. Fifty-eight of the defendants, who included parliamentarians and senior officials, were sentenced to 10 years …
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By Liz Lee and Xiuhao Chen BEIJING (Reuters) -Extreme rains and flooding across northern China have killed 60 people, more than half of them at a care home for the elderly in a suburb of Beijing, which has grappled with its deadliest flood disaster in years. In Beijing, 44 people died over the past week, …
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By Rikako Maruyama HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -Since the age of seven, Japanese schoolboy Shun Sasaki has been offering free guided tours to foreign visitors of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park with a mission: ensuring that the horrors of nuclear war do not fade from memory with the passage of time. Aged 12 now, Shun has …
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By Devjyot Ghoshal, Francesco Guarascio and Poppy McPherson (Reuters) -When weeks of tensions escalated into a major border conflict with Thailand last week, former Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen appeared to take charge of his country’s response. Photographs showed him at the end of a long table, speaking with military officers and poring over detailed …
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By Panu Wongcha-um and Poppy McPherson BANGKOK (Reuters) -First came a push from the Malaysian premier, then China reached out, but it was only after U.S. President Donald Trump called Thailand’s leader last week that Bangkok agreed to talks with Cambodia to end an escalating military conflict. A flurry of diplomatic efforts over a 20-hour …
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