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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark’s Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen will travel to China on Saturday for high-level meetings, just days after a visit by former Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen to Copenhagen drew strong condemnation from Beijing. Rasmussen is due to meet China’s foreign minister Wang Yi and trade minister Wang Wentao on a three-day visit …

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By Danial Azhar and Ashley Tang KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said he discussed the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a visit to Moscow, days after a U.N. report found Russia responsible for the disaster. A U.N. aviation council found this week that Russia …

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MANILA (Reuters) – Germany and the Philippines have agreed to enhance defence ties and boost joint activities as Manila builds up a range of alliances to strengthen its position in a longstanding dispute with China in the contested South China Sea.  Philippine defence secretary Gilberto Teodoro and German counterpart Boris Pistorius signed an “arrangement concerning defence …

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SEOUL (Reuters) -Tottenham Hotspur captain Son Heung-min has filed a complaint to South Korean police alleging he was the victim of a blackmail attempt, his agency said on Thursday, after media reports that a woman had threatened him with a false pregnancy claim. “The police are currently investigating, so we will let you know the …

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BEIJING (Reuters) -China on Wednesday paused some non-tariff measures taken against 17 U.S. entities put on its unreliable entity list in April and 28 U.S. entities on its export control list, the commerce ministry said. China paused its April 4 unreliable entities list measure on 11 U.S. entities for 90 days starting on Wednesday. It …

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Chinese robotaxi operator Pony.ai said on Wednesday that one of its cars caught fire while being handled by service staff after a system malfunction, but that no passengers were onboard. The vehicle was operating without a human driver on the road on Tuesday morning when it showed an “abnormal status”, prompting the vehicle’s …

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