By Alasdair Pal and Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday the country would commence negotiations on a security and defence partnership with the European Union, and was also hopeful of a “symbolically important” trade deal. Albanese met with the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council …
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(Reuters) -Viasat Inc has been identified as a victim of the Chinese-linked Salt Typhoon cyberespionage operation during last year’s presidential campaign, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. The breach at the satellite communications firm was discovered earlier this year and Viasat has been working with the government in the aftermath, the report said, citing people familiar …
SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Japan suspended imports of fertile eggs and day-old chicks coming from the Brazilian states of Goias and Mato Grosso after bird flu cases in subsistence farms had been reported in both states, the Brazilian Agriculture Ministry said on Tuesday. In a statement, the ministry added that Japan also suspended all poultry meat …
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TOKYO (Reuters) -The Japanese embassy in Iran said on Tuesday it was considering evacuating Japanese nationals by transporting them by bus to a neighbouring country, as the Israel-Iran air war raged for a fifth straight day. “This could be carried out as early as Thursday, June 19,” the embassy said on the foreign ministry’s website. …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) -A Saudia Airlines plane carrying hajj pilgrims home made an emergency landing in Indonesia on Tuesday after a bomb threat, police and the carrier said, with all passengers evacuated. The plane, carrying 442 hajj pilgrims from Jeddah to Jakarta, landed mid-morning in North Sumatra province due to the emailed threat, Indonesia’s transport ministry …
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By Andrew Osborn (Reuters) -North Korea will send thousands of military construction workers and sappers to Russia’s Kursk region to help rebuild it after a Ukrainian incursion that North Korean troops helped Moscow repel this year, a senior Russian security official said on Tuesday. Sergei Shoigu, secretary of Russia’s Security Council and a former defence …
By Ethan Wang and Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) -China is “deeply worried” about Israel’s military operation against Iran that has escalated tensions in the Middle East, President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday, in his first public comments on the conflict that erupted last Friday. Xi, speaking on the sidelines of a summit with five Central …
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(Corrects spelling of family name of official to “Li” not “Lee”, paragraph 9) By Ann Wang SUAO, Taiwan (Reuters) -Taiwan sealed a partnership deal on Tuesday with U.S. and German-based Auterion for drone software battle-tested in Ukraine to help strengthen the island’s defences against growing military threats from giant neighbour China. Auterion, whose software is …
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By Guy Faulconbridge ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) -Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto will hold talks with President Vladimir Putin in Russia this week to explore ways to deepen what their foreign ministers cast on Tuesday as a burgeoning strategic partnership. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking at a meeting in Moscow with his Indonesian counterpart Sugiono, said …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia spent 4.4 trillion rupiah ($270.35 million) by June 12 on President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship programme to give students and expectant mothers free meals, just 2.6% of this year’s allocation, finance ministry data showed on Tuesday. Launched in January, the programme has faced challenges, including concerns in financial markets about the government’s tight …
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