By Saeed Shah, Ariba Shahid and Sakshi Dayal ISLAMABAD, NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Pakistan will not get water from rivers over which India has rights, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, upping the rhetoric in a standoff over water access triggered by a deadly attack in Indian Kashmir. Pakistan’s chief legal officer, in an …
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By Jack Kim and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) -A major accident occurred on Wednesday during the launch of a new North Korean warship while Kim Jong Un was attending the event, with the isolated state’s leader calling it a “criminal act” that could not be tolerated, state media KCNA reported. Kim, who witnessed the failed …
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By Heather Schlitz CHICAGO (Reuters) – Dr. Mike Lemmon’s pigs, each valued between $2,500 and $5,000, were supposed to be on a plane bound for Hangzhou, China, from St. Louis in April, where’d they spend the flight snoring, play fighting and snacking on oats and husked corn before taking up residence at Chinese hog farms. …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China and the Netherlands pledged on Thursday to deepen cooperation and communication amid “global challenges” by bolstering wider China-EU ties to tackle areas such as climate change and the green transition. The two countries agreed to maintain close communication on cooperation in various fields including semiconductor technology, China’s foreign ministry said in a …
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MANILA/BEIJING (Reuters) -China and the Philippines traded accusations on Thursday following a confrontation between two of their vessels in contested waters of the South China Sea, the latest incident in a long-running maritime standoff in the strategic waterway. The Philippines’ fisheries bureau said the lives of a civilian crew were put at risk when the …
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PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to south east Asia to pitch France and Europe as reliable partners with “no strings attached” as the U.S. and China use more aggressive ways to gain influence in the region, officials said. Macron is set to arrive in Hanoi on Sunday, the first trip to …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s coast guard said it took control measures against two Philippine vessels on Wednesday which it said “illegally intruded” into waters near Subi Reef and Sandy Cay in the disputed South China Sea. One of the Philippine vessels also “dangerously” approached and collided with a Chinese coast guard ship, China Coast Guard (CCG) …
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By Stefanno Sulaiman and Ananda Teresia JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia is expected to appoint a military officer – once found guilty of kidnapping rights activists – to a top finance ministry post, two sources said, underlining the military’s growing role in governing the world’s third largest democracy. The appointment, expected to be formalised by the finance …
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By Panarat Thepgumpanat, Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand is planning to introduce a requirement for medical certificates to be shown when buying cannabis, a senior official said on Thursday, in a move to tighten control of marijuana use, three years after it was decriminalised. Thailand was one of the first countries in Asia to decriminalise …
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By Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) -It is “arrogant and ignorant” to call Taiwan a country and its future can only be decided by China’s 1.4 billion people, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday in a rebuff to the democratically-governed island’s foreign minister. China views Taiwan as its own territory and says the island is …
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