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By Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) – China could find a “pretext” to stage new war games around Taiwan this year, coinciding with sensitive dates such as the anniversary in May of a year since President Lai Ching-te took office, a senior Taiwan coast guard official said. China, which views democratically-governed Taiwan as …

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(Reuters) -Rescue workers, sniffer dogs, paramedics and millions of dollars in aid have begun arriving in Myanmar after a massive earthquake ravaged much of the war-torn country. About 2,000 people have so far been reported dead following Friday’s magnitude 7.7 earthquake in a country where millions were already displaced by a civil war triggered by …

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By Joyce Lee and Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s Constitutional Court, which is reviewing President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment, will announce its decision on whether to remove him from office permanently or reinstate him on April 4, the court said in a statement on Tuesday. The court said the ruling will be delivered at …

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(Reuters) -South Korea’s Constitutional Court is set to rule on the fate of President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday after parliament impeached Yoon and suspended his powers over his short-lived declaration of martial law on Dec. 3. The justices had 180 days to decide whether to remove Yoon, a conservative, from office. In the past, they …

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BANGKOK (Reuters) -Signs of life were detected in the ruins of a skyscraper in Bangkok on Monday as efforts intensified to find people trapped three days after a massive earthquake in Southeast Asia that killed at least 2,000. Scanning machines and sniffer dogs were deployed at the unfinished skyscraper and Bangkok’s Deputy Governor Tavida Kamolvej …

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s economy could lose as much as $1.81 trillion in the event of a long-anticipated megaquake off its Pacific coast, which could trigger devastating tsunamis, the collapse of hundreds of buildings and potentially killing about 300,000 people, a government report said on Monday. The expected economic damage of 270.3 trillion yen, or …

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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean actor Kim Soo-hyun on Monday denied allegations that he dated the actress Kim Sae-ron when she was underage, breaking down in tears as he said he could not “admit what is not true.” Brands including Prada have cut ties with the actor amid the controversy over his relationship with Kim …

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