By Mei Mei Chu and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) – China has floated a proposal to hold a summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump to help end the Ukraine war, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Chinese officials in recent weeks have raised a proposal …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump and visiting Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a press conference on Thursday when they meet in Washington, the White House said, a rare press briefing by the Indian leader. Modi held a press conference with former President Joe Biden during a 2023 visit, but …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will hold their first meeting in the German city of Munich later this week, Seoul’s foreign ministry said on Thursday. The two will discuss their alliance, North Korea’s nuclear program and trilateral cooperation with Japan, the ministry said in …
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By Tom Bateman UONUMA, Japan (Reuters) – More than 120 teams battled it out in a snowball fight tournament in a mountainous Japanese city on Sunday, in what the local weather bureau called the coldest air this winter to sweep the country’s northern snow belt. The 35th annual Koide International Snowball Fight in Uonuma in …
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By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) -Cook Islands’ Prime Minister Mark Brown said on Thursday he had held discussions with institutions on marine science, climate resilience and economic cooperation so far during a trip to China that has raised national security concerns in New Zealand. During his visit, Brown is also expected to sign a comprehensive …
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By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) -China is helping Russia’s military drone production by becoming a hub for the smuggling of critical Western components for Moscow’s armed forces, Estonia’s foreign intelligence said in its annual national security report published on Wednesday. Some 80% of such components reaching Russia now come from China, it said. Previous Ukrainian …
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By Roger Tung TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan aims to get more than $1.5 billion in investment from insurance funds to help finance the island’s green energy transition as part of its climate change and carbon reduction goals, Environment Minister Peng Chi-ming has said. Although most countries missed Monday’s U.N. deadline to set new climate targets, …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – Officials from Bangladesh’s former government and security apparatus systematically committed serious human rights violations against protesters staging mass demonstrations last summer, the U.N. human rights chief said on Wednesday. Presenting the report of a fact-finding mission, High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk told reporters in Geneva that crimes against humanity may …
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ASTANA (Reuters) – Kazakhstani lawmakers on Wednesday proposed that the country adopt a law restricting “foreign agents”, an apparent move to emulate Russia in adopting a measure used to clamp down on government critics. The People’s Party, a left-wing opposition party seen as ultimately loyal to President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, proposed the legislation, with one of …
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TASHKENT (Reuters) – A military court in Uzbekistan sentenced 10 defendants to lengthy prison terms for the attempted murder of the former presidential press secretary, the country’s supreme court press service said on Wednesday. The failed attack on former presidential spokesperson Komil Allamjonov’s car in October last year sparked rumours of a power struggle in …
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