By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) -Nepali Sherpa guide Kami Rita scaled Mount Everest for the 31st time on Tuesday, breaking the record he set last year. The 55-year-old reached the 8,849-metre (29,032 foot) peak – the highest in the world – by the traditional southeast ridge route while guiding a 22-member Indian army team, officials …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea’s foreign ministry has criticised the U.S. Golden Dome missile defense shield project as a “very dangerous threatening initiative”, state media said on Tuesday. U.S. President Donald Trump on May 20 said he had picked a design for the Golden Dome missile defense system and named a leader of the ambitious $175 …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s Premier Li Qiang called for expanded trade and investment ties with Malaysia, urging the two countries to safeguard free and multilateral trade in a meeting with Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Monday, Xinhua reported. The Chinese premier is in Kuala Lumpur this week for a summit with leaders from Southeast Asian and …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Rainfall in China through next Tuesday is expected to ease drought conditions in key wheat-growing provinces like Henan and Shaanxi, according to the National Meteorological Center. Most of China’s major wheat regions will experience clear, harvest-friendly weather this week, the Xinhua news agency reported. The agriculture ministry has urged local authorities to …
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By Francesco Guarascio and Phuong Nguyen HANOI (Reuters) -France and Vietnam signed deals on Monday on Airbus planes, defence and other pacts, worth over $10 billion as President Emmanuel Macron visited Hanoi seeking to boost France’s influence in its former colony amid risks of high U.S. tariffs. Macron’s first formal visit to Vietnam, the first …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine has confirmed information that China is supplying a range of important products to Russian military plants, the chief of Ukrainian foreign intelligence was quoted on Monday as saying. “There is information that China supplies tooling machines, special chemical products, gunpowder, and components specifically to defence manufacturing industries,” Oleh Ivashchenko told Ukrinform state …
By Danial Azhar KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -The Philippines is open to any additional agreements with Beijing that can help maintain peace in the South China Sea, its top diplomat said, amid unabated confrontations between them over disputed features. The South China Sea, a conduit for about $3 trillion of annual ship-borne trade, remains a source …
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By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) -Primary school teachers in Bangladesh joined public sector workers in protests against the interim government on Monday amid growing discontent and political uncertainty in the South Asian country. Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, 84, took over as interim head of the country of 173 million last August after deadly student-led …
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By Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan aims to cut stockpiled rice prices to 2,000 yen ($14) per 5 kilograms (11 lb) and get rice onto shop shelves more quickly, the farm ministry said on Monday, as the high cost of the staple risks adding to the government’s unpopularity. Crop damage from extreme heat and increasing …
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By Jun Yuan Yong and Greg Torode SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Uncertainties over the Trump administration’s security policies in Asia and Europe, the protracted war in Ukraine as well as fresh India-Pakistan tensions are likely to dominate Asia’s leading defence meeting in Singapore later this week. The Shangri-La Dialogue runs from May 31-June 1, attracting defence ministers, …
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