By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -Spending on nuclear weapons by the world’s nine nuclear-armed nations rose by 11% in 2024, a report by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons said on Friday. The $10 billion annual increase to $100.2 billion went towards modernising and in some cases expanding nuclear arsenals, according to ICAN, …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China has issued advisories to its citizens in Israel and Iran of the “complex and severe” security situation in those countries on Friday, adding a warning to those in Israel to prepare for possible missile and drone attacks. The Chinese embassy in Israel told citizens there to strengthen their security precautions, avoid going …
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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s upcoming upper house election is set for July 20, as Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba decided not to extend the current parliamentary session, the Asahi newspaper reported on Friday, citing multiple unnamed administration officials. Ishiba also has no plans to dissolve the lower house during the current session, which lasts through June 22, …
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BALLYMENA, Northern Ireland (Reuters) -Michael Sancio, a resident of the Northern Irish town of Ballymena, said he was woken at midnight on Tuesday by masked men banging loudly on windows. Sancio, his wife and daughter, and a couple who share their house – all originally from the Philippines – grabbed their passports and a few …
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(Reuters) -More than 200 people were killed when an Air India plane bound for London with 242 people on board crashed minutes after taking off from India’s western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, authorities said, one of the country’s worst aviation disasters. Following are details of some other airline accidents in India in recent years: …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) -Foreign investors are invited for Indonesia’s plan to build a $80 billion seawall hundreds of kilometres long to prevent floods along the north coast of its most populous island Java, President Prabowo Subianto said on Thursday. The seawall project expands on a 2014 plan by the capital Jakarta’s government to protect the city …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand’s medical council on Thursday upheld its suspension of two doctors who enabled influential politician Thaksin Shinawatra to spend his prison sentence in hospital, a day ahead of the start of a Supreme Court case that could see him jailed. Thaksin, the driving force behind the current government, returned from 15 years of …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) -A Taiwanese court sentenced the Chinese captain of a ship to three years in jail on Thursday after finding him guilty of intentionally damaging undersea cables off the island in February, in a case that alarmed Taiwan officials. Prosecutors said the man was captain of the Chinese-crewed Hong Tai 58, registered in Togo, …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) -China has cleared 51 tonnes of trash from a scenic southern region famed for a craggy peak featured in Hollywood blockbuster “Avatar”, after videos went viral on social media showing ancient caves used as a rubbish dump. The caves in a national park in the southern province of Hunan were stacked with …
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By Kantaro Komiya and Nobuhiro Kubo TOKYO (Reuters) -Chinese fighter jets flew unusually close to Japanese military patrol planes over the weekend, Tokyo said, after two Chinese aircraft carriers were spotted operating simultaneously in the Pacific for the first time. “We have expressed serious concern to the Chinese side and solemnly requested prevention of recurrence,” …
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