By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) – Floods in Bangladesh have destroyed an estimated 1.1 million metric tons of rice, according to data from the agriculture ministry, prompting the country to ramp up imports of the staple grain amid soaring food prices. Floods brought by heavy monsoon rains and torrential upstream runoff struck the country in …
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By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea’s foreign minister said a new multilateral sanctions monitoring team led by the United States was “utterly unlawful and illegitimate”, state media reported on Sunday. The United States, South Korea and Japan on Wednesday announced the launch of a new multinational team to monitor the enforcement of sanctions against …
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NAPLES (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary LLoyd Austin said on Saturday he could not confirm reports that North Korea has sent troops to Russia ahead of what could be a deployment to the war in Ukraine, but added such a move would be concerning, if true. South Korea’s spy agency said on Friday that North …
TOKYO (Reuters) -Tokyo police said on Saturday they had arrested a 49-year-old man who threw what appeared to be Molotov cocktails at the headquarters of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) earlier in the day. He also crashed his van into the security fence outside the prime minister’s office, which is close to the LDP …
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KYIV (Reuters) – The involvement of North Korean troops in the Russian invasion of Ukraine would be a “huge” escalation risk, Ukraine’s foreign minister told a joint press conference alongside his French counterpart in Kyiv on Saturday. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused North Korea this week of deploying officers alongside Russia and preparing to send …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea said on Saturday it had discovered the remains of a crashed South Korean military drone, suggesting it was on a propaganda mission in the latest confrontation between the two involving cross-border flying objects. “In light of the drone’s shape, the presumptive period of flight, the leaflet-scattering box fixed to the underpart …
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By Casey Hall SHANGHAI (Reuters) – British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said on Saturday that businesses wanted “stability and clarity” in trade with China, as London seeks to reset relations with Beijing under the new Labour government. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said following a meeting with Lammy on Friday that the bilateral ties “now …
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By Antoni Slodkowski BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese state media reported on Saturday that President Xi Jinping on Thursday inspected a brigade of the People’s Liberation Army’s Rocket Force, urging the troops to boost their “deterrence and combat capabilities”. During the inspection Xi also urged the strategic missile troops to “resolutely fulfil the tasks entrusted by …
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By Ju-min Park and Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea has shipped 1,500 special forces troops to Russia’s Far East for training and acclimatising at local military bases and will likely be deployed for combat in the war in Ukraine, South Korea’s spy agency said on Friday. South Korea’s National Intelligence Service said it had …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would impose additional tariffs on China if China were to “go into Taiwan,” the Wall Street Journal reported. “I would say: If you go into Taiwan, I’m sorry to do this, I’m going to tax you, at 150% to 200%,” the former U.S. …
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