By Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s special prosecutor on Wednesday sought a 15-year jail term for former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on allegations he abetted ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol’s botched bid to impose martial law last December. Han is expected to be the first former cabinet member to be handed a ruling by a …
DHAKA (Reuters) -A massive fire tore through one of Dhaka’s largest slums on Tuesday evening, leaving thousands of people homeless and turning rows of tin-roofed shanties into charred rubble, officials said. The blaze started shortly after sunset in the heart of the capital, in Korail — one of Bangladesh’s largest and most crowded slums. Home …
BEIJING (Reuters) -China warned on Wednesday it would “crush” any foreign attempts to interfere over Taiwan, after Japan announced plans to deploy missiles on an island near democratically-governed Taiwan. “We have a firm will, strong determination and a strong ability to defend our national sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Peng Qingen, a spokesperson for China’s Taiwan …
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By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s high approval ratings are prodding opposition parties to ramp up preparations in case she calls an early election, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Wednesday. A snap election, which some analysts say could come as soon as January, would affect the administration’s economic policies including deliberations …
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By Yoshifumi Takemoto, Satoshi Sugiyama and Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) -“Call me anytime” was the message Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said she received from U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday in their first phone call since Tokyo’s leader sparked a major diplomatic bust-up with China. Takaichi’s off-the-cuff remark in parliament earlier this month that …
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(Reuters) -A South Korean-born New Zealand woman was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for murdering her two young children, whose bodies were discovered in suitcases in an abandoned storage locker more than three years ago, New Zealand media reported. Hakyung Lee was convicted in September after admitting to killing the children, aged eight …
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ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he had a “great talk” with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and expressed confidence that she would be a great leader. “We have a great relationship, the new prime minister and myself,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. “She’s very smart, she’s …
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By Saeed Shah ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Tensions flared between Afghanistan and Pakistan on Tuesday as the Taliban accused Pakistani forces of air strikes in eastern Afghanistan, which killed 9 children and a woman, and injured four others. There was no immediate comment from Islamabad. The bombardment followed a series of recent attacks in Pakistan, in which …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Japan has dismissed a Chinese letter to the United Nations accusing Tokyo of threatening armed intervention over Taiwan as “inconsistent with the facts and unsubstantiated”. Japan’s U.N. ambassador, Kazuyuki Yamazaki, was responding on Monday to a letter China’s U.N. Ambassador Fu Cong wrote on Friday to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Fu accused Japanese …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) -The Southeast Asian regional bloc will find it difficult to re-engage with Myanmar even after its upcoming election, the Thai foreign minister said on Tuesday, calling for the release of the country’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Myanmar is scheduled to hold a multi-phase general election starting on December 28 amid …
