AMSTERDAM, Dec 2 (Reuters) – The Netherlands’ economic affairs minister said on Tuesday he has canceled a visit to China that he had planned for December, citing scheduling differences. In a letter to parliament, the minister, Vincent Karremans, said he had made arrangements with China’s trade minister to come on short notice if necessary for …
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LAHORE, Pakistan, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Imran Khan, Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister, is in good physical health but facing isolation and psychological strain, his sister said on Tuesday, after a rare supervised visit following weeks in which his family said access had been blocked. Uzma Khanum, one of Khan’s three sisters, was the only …
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COPENHAGEN, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Danish facility management group ISS said on Tuesday its unit had been the property manager for a Hong Kong building complex hit by the city’s deadliest fire in decades, but had no role in renovations blamed for the blaze. Its statement, issued after the company was named in a report …
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By Uditha Jayasinghe ALAWATHUGODA, Sri Lanka, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Nawaz Nashra recalls grabbing her three-year-old daughter, wrapping her in a bedsheet and running out of their home in central Sri Lanka as a landslide struck, triggered by a deadly cyclone that killed 410 people in the worst floods in a decade. Nashra and her …
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JAKARTA, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Indonesia and the Netherlands on Tuesday signed a deal to repatriate two elderly Dutch prisoners convicted of drug offences, officials said, one of whom was on death row. The two prisoners were Siegfried Mets, 74, and Ali Tokman, 65, according to Yusril Ihza Mahendra, Indonesia’s senior minister for law, human …
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By Donny Kwok, Clare Jim and Jessie Pang HONG KONG, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s leader said on Tuesday a judge-led committee will investigate the cause of the city’s deadliest fire in decades and review oversight of building renovations blamed for fanning an inferno that killed at least 156 people. Police have arrested 15 …
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By Andrew MacAskill LONDON, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Prime Minister Keir Starmer has warned that China poses “national security threats” to Britain, but defended his government’s decision to step up engagement with the country, saying closer business ties are in the national interest. Starmer’s Labour government has made improved relations with China one of its …
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By Ananda Teresia SOUTH TAPANULI, Indonesia, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Indonesian Reliwati Siregar gestured angrily at deforestation around her home on the island of Sumatra, where landslides and floods brought by a tropical storm killed more than 700 people in its deadliest disaster since a cataclysmic tsunami in 2004. “Mischievous hands cut down trees … …
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Malaysia has amended its nuclear regulatory framework to require permits be obtained for all atomic energy activities including import, exports and transshipment of radioactive materials. The amended law, which came into effect on Monday and will be enforced in stages, comes as Malaysia conducts feasibility studies on nuclear energy …
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By Stanley Widianto PALEMBAYAN, Indonesia, Dec 2 (Reuters) – In the days since cyclone-induced floods and landslides battered Indonesia’s Sumatra island, Abdul Ghani has been carrying around a picture of his missing wife, showing it to everyone he meets. The 57-year-old Ghani, who makes a living selling soft drinks, has spent days trudging along the …
