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By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea is dismantling a facility at its Mount Kumgang resort used for hosting meetings between families separated after the Korean War, South Korea said on Thursday, in the latest sign of strained tensions between the two Koreas. The Unification Ministry, which handles affairs between the nations, urged Pyongyang …

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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand has received 260 human trafficking victims, more than half of them Ethiopians, from Myanmar, its army said on Thursday, in a massive repatriation that comes amid a mounting crackdown on scam centres operating along a porous border. Criminal gangs have trafficked hundreds of thousands of people and forced them to work …

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TAIPEI (Reuters) -A suspected gas explosion at a department store in Taiwan’s central city of Taichung killed at least four people and injured 26 on Thursday, among them tourists from the gambling hub of Macau, fire officials said. The blast on the building’s 12th storey, where construction work was taking place, caused damage from the …

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COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka extended power cuts for a third day on Thursday as it scrambled to restore its national grid to full capacity after a monkey triggered a widespread blackout over the weekend that disrupted supply to the island’s 22 million people. An outage lasting six hours on Sunday was blamed by power …

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By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea on Thursday announced strengthened aviation safety measures following a fire on an Air Busan plane last month, saying the rules would include limiting the number and type of portable batteries allowed on the country’s airlines. The measures come into effect on March 1 for South Korean carriers after …

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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia has raised concerns with China over what it said on Thursday were “unsafe and unprofessional” actions by a Chinese fighter jet towards an Australian maritime patrol in the South China Sea two days earlier, an account disputed by Beijing. A Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft was …

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By Shivam Patel NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India expects to sell short-range missiles to the Philippines this year in a deal worth more than $200 million, Indian sources told Reuters, for New Delhi’s second major defence export contract with Manila as tension grows with China. The Akash missile system developed by India’s defence research body …

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