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DHAKA (Reuters) -Violence erupted on Wednesday at a rally of Bangladesh’s youth-led National Citizen Party in the southern town of Gopalganj, with four people killed and more injured according to local media. Deadly student-led protests forced long-time Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee to India in August last year, and since then there have been …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday it plans to adopt rules to bar companies from connecting undersea submarine communication cables to the United States that include Chinese technology or equipment. “We have seen submarine cable infrastructure threatened in recent years by foreign adversaries, like China,” FCC Chair Brendan Carr …

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(Refiles to add missing phrase, correct typo in paragraph 1) BEIJING (Reuters) -Wu Yingjie, a former Communist Party chief of China’s Tibet region who was sanctioned by the United States and Canada over alleged human rights violations, was given a suspended death sentence, state-run news agency Xinhua reported. A court in Beijing on Wednesday sentenced …

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(This story has been republished to change photographer credit in the image, with no changes to text) By Kentaro Okasaka TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese shipper Kawasaki Kisen (K-Line) is adjusting its U.S. services and is prepared to reroute more ships away to other regions as it braces for potentially higher U.S. tariffs, CEO Takenori Igarashi said …

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By Dan Catchpole SEATTLE (Reuters) -The deadly Air India crash last month has renewed a decades-old debate in the aviation industry over installing video cameras monitoring airline pilot actions to complement the cockpit voice and flight data recorders already used by accident investigators. One of the industry’s most influential voices, International Air Transport Association head …

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