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South Korean police raid Hanwha Ocean shipyard after death of worker, Yonhap says

27 Nov 2025

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean police and Labour Ministry officials raided on Thursday the shipyard of Hanwha Ocean in Geoje in the southeast of the country after the death of a worker, the Yonhap News Agency reported. A spokesperson for Hanwha Ocean said in a text message that company officials were “cooperating with the investigation as …

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Volunteers seek lost pets amid Hong Kong deadly inferno wreckage

27 Nov 2025

By Jessie Pang and Joyce Zhou HONG KONG (Reuters) -As firefighters battled floor by floor in Hong Kong’s flaming Wang Fuk Court housing complex overnight to find survivors and reunite them with fearful relatives, another band of volunteers swung into action to rescue the estate’s pets. Dozens of workers from Hong Kong’s animal welfare agencies …

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Myanmar junta pardons thousands ahead of disputed election

27 Nov 2025

(Reuters) -Myanmar’s junta will pardon or drop charges against a total of 8,665 people, state media reported on Thursday, allowing them to vote in an upcoming election that Western countries and human rights groups have dismissed as a sham. The order includes the reduction of sentences for 3,085 people convicted under section 505A of the …

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Trump says US must re-examine Afghan immigrants who came when Biden was president

27 Nov 2025

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for his government to re-examine Afghan immigrants who entered the United States during the former President Joe Biden’s administration. The president called the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington “an act of terror,” saying the suspect came from Afghanistan in 2021. “This heinous assault was …

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South Korea’s fourth space rocket launch successful, sends satellites into orbit

27 Nov 2025

By Heejin Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea successfully launched its fourth homegrown space rocket Nuri on Thursday and put more than a dozen satellites into orbit, the Science Ministry said, marking the country’s first launch jointly conducted with a private company.  South Korea started the Nuri rocket programme in 2021, but in the latest launch, …

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Hong Kong police say death toll rises to 40 in residential blaze

27 Nov 2025

HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong police said on Thursday the death toll in a fire that ripped through residential blocks in the city had risen to 40, with 45 people still in a critical condition. A massive fire ripped through multiple high-rise residential blocks in Hong Kong’s northern Tai Po district on Wednesday, as authorities …

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Hong Kong buildings blaze kills 36, nearly 300 missing

26 Nov 2025

By Tyrone Siu, Joyce Zhou and Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -At least 36 people were killed and 279 were missing on Wednesday after Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in three decades ripped through high-rise residential towers sheathed in flammable bamboo scaffolding, authorities said. Hours after the fire started in the northern Tai Po district, flames …

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China protests US move to restrict visas for Central Americans with Beijing ties

26 Nov 2025

By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -China on Wednesday accused the United States of violating the United Nations Charter after Washington announced a visa policy that targeted people from Central American countries who work with Beijing. The policy, according to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, will restrict U.S. visas for Central American nationals, and their …

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Thailand airlifts patients, rushes supplies as floods in south kill 33

26 Nov 2025

By Panarat Thepgumpanat HAT YAI, Thailand (Reuters) -Thailand airlifted patients and flew critical supplies, including oxygen tanks, into a submerged southern city on Wednesday, as the death toll from some of the region’s worst floods in years climbed to 33. Floods have swept through nine Thai provinces and eight states in neighbouring Malaysia for a …

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