MOSCOW (Reuters) – The office of Russia’s Prosecutor General has asked the Supreme Court to suspend a ban on the Taliban, the Interfax news agency reported on Monday. The Supreme court will consider the move on April 17, the state-run RIA news agency said. Russia, which has long included the Taliban on a list of …
By Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s parliament passed the budget for fiscal 2025 on Monday, the day before the new financial year starts, after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s minority coalition was forced to revise the $770 billion budget bill twice. The rare last-minute passage of the budget by parliament highlighted the diminished strength of …
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By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) -A tie-up between a Chinese research institute and tech company said on Monday that it aims to implant its brain chip into 13 people by the end of this year, in a move that could see it overtake Elon Musk’s Neuralink in collecting patient data. The Beijing-based Chinese Institute for …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s Politburo met on Monday to discuss supervision over environmental protection work, the official state news agency Xinhua said. Top Communist Party officials, the Politburo, reviewed a set of regulations on ecological and environmental protection inspection at the monthly meeting, Xinhua said. (Reporting by Liz Lee and Beijing newsroom; Editing by Kim Coghill)
By Mandy Leong and Hasnoor Hussain KUALA KANGSAR, Malaysia (Reuters) – As Malaysian Muslims began celebrating Eid al-Fitr after a month of fasting, the sound of cannons echoed through the rice fields of a northern village, in a decades-long tradition heralding the start of the festivities. Residents of Kampung Talang, 250 km (155 miles) north …
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By Karen Lema and Poppy McPherson MANILA (Reuters) – The bloodied body of Sheerah Escudero’s 18-year-old brother was found in 2017 with hands bound and head wrapped in packaging tape, a suspected victim of the Philippines’ then-President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs” that left thousands dead. The arrest of Duterte on March 11 on an …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand’s financial payments infrastructure and services are operating normally after the powerful earthquake in Myanmar, the tremors of which hit Bangkok on Friday, the central bank said on Monday. Financial institutions continue to provide normal services for both retail and corporate clients without disruption, Deputy Governor Roong Mallikamas said at a joint news …
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By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Bangladesh’s main opposition party has warned of instability and “strong resentment within the people” if elections are not held by December, after the country’s de facto prime minister said the poll could be delayed until 2026. An unelected interim government led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad …
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(Reuters) -An armed resistance movement against Myanmar’s military-run government criticised the junta on Sunday for conducting airstrikes on villages even as the country reels from an earthquake that has killed around 1,700 people. The Karen National Union, one of Myanmar’s oldest ethnic armies, said in a statement the junta “continues to carry out airstrikes targeting …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea, China and Japan held their first economic dialogue in five years on Sunday, seeking to facilitate regional trade as the three Asian export powers brace from U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The countries’ three trade ministers agreed to “closely cooperate for a comprehensive and high-level” talks on a South Korea-Japan-China …
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