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By Daniela Desantis ASUNCION (Reuters) -Paraguay is preparing to receive Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te next month, President Santiago Pena said on Monday, meaning Lai will likely make sensitive transit stops in the United States that are bound to infuriate Beijing. Asked about the plans, a spokesperson for the U.S. State Department said that “transits of …

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BEIJING (Reuters) -Natural disasters across China in the first half of 2025 brought direct economic losses of 54.11 billion yuan ($7.55 billion) and affected more than 23 million people, an official from the emergency response ministry said on Tuesday. A powerful earthquake in Tibet, deadly landslides in the southwestern provinces and widespread flooding in the …

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By Liz Lee and Kate Abnett BEIJING/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Chinese officials have told the European Union the country will produce a new national plan to tackle climate change in the autumn, the European Commission’s green chief Teresa Ribera said on Monday. China and the EU each missed a February deadline to submit new national climate change …

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By Ryan Woo, Liangping Gao and Ellen Zhang BEIJING (Reuters) -China promised to build liveable, sustainable and resilient cities in the next phase of its urban development after the first top-level urban planning meeting in a decade, abandoning breakneck urban growth that once super-charged its economy. At the Central Urban Work Conference helmed by President …

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BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand’s finance minister will nominate state-owned bank head Vitai Ratanakorn as the next central bank governor, two government sources and local media said on Tuesday, with the minister to propose his chosen candidate to cabinet next week.  Finance Minister Pichai Chunhavajira did not disclose the identity of the candidate and said there was …

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By Leika Kihara and Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s ruling coalition will likely lose its majority in the upper house election on July 20, media polls showed on Tuesday, heightening the risk of political instability at a time the country struggles to strike a trade deal with the U.S. Japanese bond yields soared as investors …

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