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By Chayut Setboonsarng and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand should be commended for managing the return of 40 Uyghurs to China, a deputy premier said on Friday, as his country endured a torrent of international condemnation over its secretive deportation and Bangkok embassies sent out security alerts.  The 40 Uyghurs who had been held …

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BANGKOK (Reuters) – The United States embassy in Bangkok on Friday issued a security alert for its citizens in Thailand, a day after the secretive deportation of 40 Uyghurs to China that has drawn international condemnation. “Similar deportations have prompted violent retaliatory attacks in the past,” a security alert posted on the embassy website said. …

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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A crew member on a Singapore-registered chemical tanker was injured due to an “unauthorised boarding” of the vessel on Friday and is being medically evacuated, Singapore’s port authority said. The incident on the vessel, the Basset, occurred on Friday at 6:50 a.m. (2250 GMT on Thursday) in the Singapore Strait, according to …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Sergei Shoigu, the secretary of Russia’s Security Council, met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, Russia’s TASS state news agency reported on Friday. Earlier, Shoigu, a former defence minister, held talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Russia’s Interfax news agency said. It cited Shoigu as saying he was in China on …

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By Lisa Barrington SEOUL (Reuters) – Pilots first heard about a Chinese live-fire naval exercise near Australia last week when already in the air, receiving messages that forced some to change paths through a busy air corridor, satellite text messages to and from pilots seen by Reuters show. The incident highlights how airlines are increasingly …

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By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s defence ministry said on Friday that the history of World War Two shows aggression and expansion will end in failure, responding to Chinese comments that the island would come into Beijing’s hands sooner or later. Democratically governed Taiwan, which China views as its own territory, has repeatedly complained …

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