NEW DELHI (Reuters) – At least 15 people, mostly women and children, died and 15 were injured in a stampede at New Delhi’s main railway station, the chief minister of India’s capital territory told reporters early on Sunday. Here is a list of previous major stampedes in India over the past 20 years, most of …
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean actress Kim Sae-ron has been found dead at her home, a police official with knowledge of the case said on Sunday. Kim, 24, was one of most promising actresses in South Korea, but her career took hit after a drunk driving incident in 2022. A friend who was going to …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department has removed a statement on its website that it does not support Taiwan independence, among changes that the island’s government praised on Sunday as supporting Taiwan. The fact sheet on Taiwan retains Washington’s opposition to unilateral change from either Taiwan or from China, which claims the democratically governed …
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(Reuters) – Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, said late on Saturday that they had discussed Kyiv’s vision of a path to peace in Ukraine with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Peace talks on ending the Russian war in Ukraine are to start in the coming days …
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By Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) -China considers Germany and the European Union as a whole as strategic partners, and it wants stronger cooperation with them in the spirit of free trade and multilateralism, the Chinese foreign minister told the German chancellor on Saturday. Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Chancellor Olaf Scholz China was willing to …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told South Korea’s Foreign Minister that the United States wants to maintain a stable trust relationship with South Korea regardless of the domestic situation of either country, the South Korean ministry said in a statement on Friday. Rubio and South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul agreed …
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By Xiuhao Chen and Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) -U.S.-Philippine military exercises are longstanding, “purely defensive” and intended to maintain force readiness and preserve regional security, a U.S. State Department spokesperson said on Saturday. The spokesperson was responding in an email to a request for comment after China’s defence ministry urged Manila on Friday to withdraw …
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(Reuters) – China believes all stakeholders in the Russia-Ukraine conflict should participate in the peace talks, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday, underscoring Europe’s role in them after a flurry of U.S. messaging on how to end the war. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Wang said “we hope that all parties and …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) -One of the Taiwan air force’s new, domestically developed advanced jet trainer aircraft crashed on Saturday after reporting engine failure, though the pilot safely bailed out, the military said. It was the first major setback for the AT-5 Brave Eagle, made by state-owned Aerospace Industrial Development Corp with a budget of T$68.6 billion …
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By Joyce Zhou HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s baby panda twins will make their public debut on Sunday, with officials rolling out a full-scale panda marketing campaign to boost tourism. The pair, one female and one male, were born six months ago and join four other pandas at the city’s Ocean Park theme park. …
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