BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand’s Bhumjaithai Party on Wednesday withdrew from Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s government in a major blow to the embattled premier, leaving her ruling coalition with only a slim majority. The party, the second largest in the alliance and holder of 69 house seats, said its departure was due to the impact on the …
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WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to have lunch with Pakistani armed forces chief Asim Munir at the White House on Wednesday, according to Trump’s official schedule. The rare one-on-one meeting between a Pakistani military chief and a U.S. president could rile India after the worst fighting between the nuclear-armed rivals in South …
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By Jonathan Spicer and Felix Light ISTANBUL/TBILISI (Reuters) -Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said he will visit Turkey for talks with President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, a rare bilateral visit that Armenia hopes will reset fraught ties and reopen their shared land border after decades of enmity. The two neighbours have no formal diplomatic relations …
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By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Chantha Lach BANGKOK/PHNOM PENH (Reuters) -Relations between Thailand and Cambodia suffered a major blow on Wednesday after a leak of a telephone conversation between Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra and influential former Cambodian premier Hun Sen that could further escalate tensions. Ties between the two neighbours are at their worst in …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) -More than 20 flights to and from the Indonesian resort island of Bali were cancelled or delayed and three airports in East Nusa Tenggara province were closed due to the eruption of Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki, officials said on Wednesday. Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki, which is in East Nusa Tenggara province, erupted on Tuesday, spewing …
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By Joe Cash and Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) -The first Chinese evacuees from Iran have started sharing on social media their desperate efforts to reach the Islamic Republic’s borders and the safety of Turkmenistan, Armenia and Azerbaijan, as the Israel-Iran air war entered a sixth day. Several thousand Chinese nationals are thought to reside in …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesian police have arrested three Australian men for a shooting incident that killed a fourth at a villa on the resort island of Bali, its police chief said on Wednesday. Police detained on Tuesday the three suspects whom they accused of having “prepared and executed” the shooting, Bali police chief Daniel Adityajaya said. …
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By Hyunsu Yim and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met Russia’s top presidential security adviser Sergei Shoigu in Pyongyang on Tuesday and discussed a “special military operation” in the Kursk region bordering Ukraine, state media KCNA reported on Wednesday. Kim and Shoigu, secretary of Russia’s Security Council, discussed cooperation plans …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China is willing to work with Australia to further tap the potential of their free trade agreement, Commerce Minister Wang Wentao told a forum marking the 10th anniversary of the pact, according to the Chinese commerce ministry on Wednesday. Wang made the remarks virtually to the forum on Tuesday which was held in …
JAKARTA (Reuters) -Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province erupted on Tuesday, spewing a towering ash cloud 11 kilometres (6.8 miles) high, the country’s volcanology agency said. The agency also said it had raised the alert level of the volcano to the most dangerous, warning of potential lava flows if it heavily rains. …
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