JAKARTA (Reuters) -Power has started returning in most areas affected by an outage in Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on Friday, officials said, and efforts were continuing to fully restore services. A power outage hit a number of regions of Bali on Friday from 4 p.m. local time (0800 GMT), said state utility Perusahaan Listrik …
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(Reuters) – Russia will help the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan fight against the Afghan branch of Islamic State, Moscow’s special representative for the country was quoted as saying on Friday. Zamir Kabulov, a former Russian ambassador to Afghanistan, referred to Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K) as the “common enemy” of Moscow and Kabul. “We see and …
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By Virginia Furness and Karin Strohecker LONDON (Reuters) -Azerbaijan, host of last year’s United Nations climate summit, will deliver its overdue climate action plan by September, COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev told Reuters on Thursday, adding the oil-producing country was advancing its green energy transition, Azerbaijan had said it would use its presidency of the annual …
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By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong national security police have arrested the father and brother of wanted activist Anna Kwok for allegedly dealing with her finances, local media reported on Friday, in the first use of the city’s security law to deal with an absconder’s relatives. Kwok is the executive director of …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand has reported its first anthrax-related death in decades with two infections nationwide, prompting a public health alert after authorities identified hundreds potentially exposed to the deadly bacteria, officials said on Thursday. A 53-year-old man in Mukdahan province, in northeastern Thailand near the border with Laos, died on Wednesday after contracting anthrax, …
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By Jack Kim, Hyunsu Yim and Daewoung Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s third acting president in five months Lee Ju-ho said on Friday he will ensure stable government ahead of a June 3 snap presidential election, following the quick-fire resignations of the prime minister and finance minister. Hours earlier, Education Minister Lee took over as …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s former acting President Han Duck-soo said on Friday he would join the race to become the country’s next president after resigning the day before. A snap presidential election will be held on June 3. (Reporting by Hyunsu Yim; Editing by Ed Davies)
(This May 1 story has been corrected to clarify that PLAVE does not use AI, in paragraphs 13-14) By Hyunsu Yim and Minwoo Park SEOUL (Reuters) – The five members of one of K-pop’s trendiest groups PLAVE have appeared on TV, held concerts, and one of their songs has even secured a place in the …
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By Tariq Maqbool, Shivam Patel and Tanvi Mehta NEW DELHI/MUZAFFARABAD (Reuters) -India’s foreign minister said he has told Secretary of State Marco Rubio that perpetrators of the deadly attack in Kashmir last week should be brought to justice, as the U.S. sought to calm tensions between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan. The U.S. said Rubio discussed …
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By Joyce Lee and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s top court cast doubt on Thursday on frontrunner Lee Jae-myung’s eligibility to run for the presidency, while the resignations of the prime minister and finance minister shook the interim government in place since December’s martial law. Education Minister Lee Ju-ho took over as acting president, …
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