By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -The party of Pakistan’s jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan demanded a meeting with him on Thursday, saying it was worried about his health as he has been barred from seeing his family and lawyers for over three weeks. Khan has been in jail since August 2023, serving a 14-year sentence on …
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PADANG, Indonesia (Reuters) -Rescuers on Indonesia’s flood- and landslide-hit Sumatra island rushed on Thursday to pull stranded residents out of fast-flowing muddy waters that smashed through homes and forced thousands of people to flee a rare tropical cyclone in the area. The cyclone blew across the Indonesian archipelago’s western-most area, inundating the nearby Malacca Strait …
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By James Pomfret and Clare Jim HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in three decades has highlighted its risky use of flammable bamboo scaffolding and mesh for building work in a tradition dating back centuries to mainland China. Authorities have not determined the cause of the blaze, but images from the scene showed the …
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By Saeed Shah KABUL/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Afghans who fled the Taliban and have waited years for a U.S. resettlement decision say their last path to safety has shut since Washington froze all Afghan immigration cases following a shooting near the White House. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said late on Wednesday it had halted …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -A train ran into a group of railway workers in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming on Thursday, killing 11 and injuring two, officials there said, the country’s deadliest rail accident in more than a decade. The train, which was testing earthquake detection equipment, hit workers on a curved section of track at …
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By Hasnoor Hussain KANGAR, Malaysia (Reuters) -Gon Qasim and her husband were about to flee their home in Malaysia’s northern Perlis state last weekend when rising floodwaters cut off road access, leaving them stranded in the middle of a field. The elderly couple were eventually rescued by one of their children living nearby and taken …
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By Tamiyuki Kihara, Yukiko Toyoda and Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump asked Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takiachi not to further escalate a dispute with China during talks this week, sources with knowledge of the matter said, as he tries to preserve a fragile trade war truce with Beijing. Takaichi touched off the …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s defence ministry said on Thursday that Japan will have to pay a “painful price” if it steps out of line over Taiwan, responding to Japanese plans to deploy missiles on an island some 100 km (62 miles) from Taiwan’s coast. The remarks come amid the countries’ worst diplomatic crisis in years, after …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea has imposed sanctions on 15 individuals and 132 entities, including Prince Group and those tied to the Southeast Asia-based multinational network, over online crimes in Southeast Asia, the government said on Thursday. “It is our first unilateral sanction responding to a trans-national crime and the single biggest, which shows the government’s …
BEIJING (Reuters) -China urged the U.S. on Thursday to rein in Japan and prevent any “actions to revive militarism” in an editorial published by the newspaper of the ruling Communist Party, as a war of words with Tokyo grows over the Japanese prime minister’s remarks on Taiwan. The timing of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s call …
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