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Gunmen kill seven bus passengers in southwest Pakistan

20 Feb 2025

By Saleem Ahmed QUETTA (Reuters) – Separatist gunmen shot dead seven passengers on a Lahore-bound bus in southwestern Pakistan’s Balochistan province on Tuesday after forcing them off the vehicle and checking their identity documents, officials said. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), the biggest of several ethnic armed groups battling the central government, claimed responsibility for …

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Japan trade minister plans US visit in March to seek tariff exemptions, Asahi reports

20 Feb 2025

(Reuters) -Japan’s Trade Minister Yoji Muto plans to visit the U.S. in March and will seek exemptions from Trump administration plans to set import tariffs on steel and cars, the Asahi newspaper reported on Thursday. Muto is arranging meetings with newly confirmed U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and other top officials …

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Australia says Chinese navy ships off Sydney did not pose threats

20 Feb 2025

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia is closely monitoring a Chinese navy task group in the country’s exclusive economic zone off its east coast but the ships did not pose any threats as they had not breached any maritime laws, Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Thursday. A People’s Liberation Army Navy frigate, cruiser and replenishment vessel …

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Armenian PM calls for referendum on new constitution

19 Feb 2025

(Reuters) – Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called on Wednesday for the country to change its constitution, a move demanded by Azerbaijan that could facilitate a peace treaty between the longtime rivals. “The adoption of the new constitution by a national referendum is essential,” Pashinyan said during a televised address, adding that the current document …

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Ex-Karabakh official held by Azerbaijan declares second hunger strike amid terrorism trial

19 Feb 2025

(Reuters) – Ruben Vardanyan, a former top official in the ethnic Armenian administration of Nagorno-Karabakh which Azerbaijan retook in 2023, announced a second hunger strike on Wednesday in protest against his criminal trial in Baku. “Today, I have decided to protest by declaring a hunger strike against the judicial farce being carried out against me,” …

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Afghanistan says Pakistan carrying out mass expulsion of refugees

19 Feb 2025

By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Afghan refugees are facing arrests and harassment in Pakistan as part of a mass expulsion campaign, Kabul’s embassy in Islamabad said on Wednesday, after the U.N.’s refugee agency said hundreds had been expelled from two cities. Pakistan is in the midst of a huge drive to repatriate the roughly …

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Soccer-Shandong withdraw from Asian Champions League before Ulsan fixture

19 Feb 2025

(Reuters) – Chinese Super League side Shandong Taishan have pulled out of the Asian Champions League Elite just hours before their final league phase game against Ulsan HD in South Korea on Wednesday. The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) said that Shandong were “considered to have withdrawn” from the competition after the club confirmed they did …

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China opposes Vietnam’s building work on disputed reef in South China Sea

19 Feb 2025

By Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) – China opposes Vietnam’s construction activities on a disputed islet in the South China Sea known as the Barque Canada Reef, its foreign ministry said on Wednesday. Occupied by Vietnam since the 1980s, the reef in the Spratly Islands is claimed by several countries, in a dispute that has intensified …

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China sentences former ICBC executive to death with reprieve for taking bribes

19 Feb 2025

BEIJING (Reuters) – China has sentenced Zhang Hongli, a former vice president of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, to death with a two-year reprieve for taking bribes, the state broadcaster reported on Wednesday. (Reporting by Yukun Zhang and Ryan Woo; Editing by Bernadette Baum)

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