By Daphne Psaledakis KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he expressed the United States’ frustration that more progress has not been made on ending the war in Ukraine in a meeting on Thursday with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. “It was a frank conversation. It was an important one,” Rubio said his 50-minute …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -Twenty-five rivers in southwestern China exceeded safe levels on Thursday, state media said, after more than 10,000 people were evacuated as the remnants of former typhoon Danas converged with East Asian monsoon rains. Extreme rainfall and severe flooding, which meteorologists link to climate change, increasingly pose major challenges as they threaten to overwhelm …
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(Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Malaysia’s Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan on civil nuclear cooperation, the State Department said in a statement on Thursday. “The signing of this… marks an important step toward establishing a robust civil nuclear partnership between the United States and Malaysia,” the State Department …
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -China will sign up to a Southeast Asian treaty banning nuclear weapons in the region as soon as all documentation is ready, Malaysia’s foreign minister said on Thursday. The Southeast Asian Nuclear Weapons Free Zone, or SEANWFZ, has been in force since 1997, limiting the use of nuclear power by members to …
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By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) -The deadly flood in Nepal’s Bhote Koshi River that killed at least nine people and left more than two dozen missing this week was triggered by the draining of a supraglacial lake in the Tibet region of China, a regional climate monitoring body said on Wednesday. At least 19 people, …
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By Kanishka Singh and Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Justice said on Tuesday a Chinese state-sponsored contract hacker was arrested last week in Italy at the request of Washington, but the arrested man claimed he is a victim of mistaken identity. Xu Zewei, 33, was arrested on July 3, the Justice Department …
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ALMATY (Reuters) -Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev told U.S. President Donald Trump in a letter that he was ready for constructive dialogue on trade issues after Trump slapped fresh 25% reciprocal tariffs on the Central Asian country. Trump launched a new global trade war this week, imposing higher tariff rates on a slew of countries as …
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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s weather bureau said on Thursday that normal weather patterns are continuing and that there was a 40% chance of the La Nina phenomenon emerging in the Northern Hemisphere autumn. There was a greater, 60% chance of normal weather patterns continuing, it said. A La Nina weather event is characterised by unusually cold …
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By Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) -Police in China have detained dozens of young women authors in a genre of gay erotica widely known in Asia as “boys’ love” during a nationwide crackdown on online pornography, lawyers and activists familiar with the cases say. The detentions since March have triggered debate on social media about the …
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(Clarifies in this July 7 story’s third paragraph that the U.S. Justice Department says a university in Texas was targeted and removes reference to the University of Texas) MILAN (Reuters) -Italian police have arrested a 33-year-old Chinese man who is wanted by the U.S. authorities over alleged industrial espionage which targeted projects including efforts to …
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