By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan executed a man on Friday who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital punishment in the country in nearly three years. Takahiro Shiraishi had been sentenced to death for his 2017 strangling and dismembering of eight women and one man in his …
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(Reuters) -The World Health Organization said on Friday that efforts to determine the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, are still ongoing and incomplete. The WHO Scientific Advisory Group reported progress in understanding COVID-19’s origins but noted that critical information required to fully assess all hypotheses remains unavailable. The agency said …
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) -At least nine people from one extended family died when floodwaters swept away children in a river in northern Pakistan and their relatives jumped into the water to try to save them on Friday, officials said. The family were having a picnic breakfast by the Swat River and the children were in …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India is taking steps to mitigate possible disruptions due to restrictions on rare earth minerals imposed by China, New Delhi said in its May economic report released on Friday. China’s recent export controls on rare earth materials have rattled the global auto industry, triggering warnings of supply chain disruptions and potential production halts, including …
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By Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand’s foreign ministry said on Friday it was taken aback by an unprecedented public attack on the Thai premier and her family by Cambodia’s influential former leader, but stressed the need for diplomacy to resolve an escalating bilateral dispute. In a televised address that lasted more than three hours, veteran …
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MANILA (Reuters) -Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte must be tried, and ultimately convicted, over serious charges, including an alleged threat to have the president killed, prosecutors argued in a submission to a Senate impeachment court on Friday. Duterte is facing removal from her post and a lifetime ban from office if convicted. She has denied …
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By Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s top legislature has voted to remove senior military official Miao Hua from the Central Military Commission, its highest-level military command body, according to a statement published on Friday by state news agency Xinhua. Miao, 69, was put under investigation for “serious violations of discipline” in November. The former political …
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By Poppy McPherson and Napat Wesshasartar BANGKOK (Reuters) -Lured to Cambodia, tortured and forced to defraud strangers online, a Thai teenager said he barely survived after he threw himself from an eighth-floor window last year in a desperate bid to escape one of the Southeast Asian nation’s prison-like scam compounds. The 18-year-old, who asked to …
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By Aditya Kalra and Ruma Paul NEW DELHI/DHAKA (Reuters) -Ukraine plans to ask the European Union to sanction Bangladeshi entities it says are importing wheat taken from Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia, after its warnings to Dhaka failed to stop the trade, a top Ukrainian diplomat in South Asia said. Russian forces have occupied large …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean police have detained six U.S. citizens who were attempting to deliver around 1,300 plastic bottles filled with rice, dollar notes and Bibles to North Korea, a police official said on Friday. The group had been trying to float the bottles by sea at a border island west of the capital Seoul …
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