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MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Thursday distanced himself from the impeachment of his estranged Vice President Sara Duterte, saying the executive branch of government cannot have a hand in it. Marcos made the remark a day after the lower house, led by his cousin, House Speaker Martin Romualdez, impeached Duterte and …

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By Aftab Ahmed, YP Rajesh and Shivam Patel AMRITSAR, India (Reuters) – Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Thursday that New Delhi is engaging with the U.S. to ensure that illegal Indian immigrants are not mistreated while being deported after opposition parties protested against the treatment of a group that was sent back this …

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By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s health partnerships with the U.S. Agency for International Development are on hold and it remains unclear whether they will be permanently suspended, its health minister said on Thursday. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is considering merging USAID, Washington’s primary humanitarian agency, into the State Department in a major …

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By Ju-min Park and Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s impeached prime minister told parliament on Thursday that “everyone” in a hastily-arranged meeting of ministers expressed concerns about President Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law plan before he announced it on December 3. Han Duck-soo, who was briefly acting president after Yoon was impeached and suspended …

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By Laurie Chen and Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) -China has named controversial diplomat and ex-ambassador to France, Lu Shaye, as Special Representative for European Affairs, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday. Lu, 60, earned a reputation for making frequent combative statements during his five-year tenure as Beijing’s envoy to Paris, which ended in December. …

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(This Feb. 5 story has been corrected to fix the number of impeached senior officials from four to five, and to add details about the fifth official in paragraph 10) By Mikhail Flores and Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippine lower house on Wednesday impeached Vice President Sara Duterte, the daughter of the country’s …

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By Ethan Wang, Shi Bu and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) -China and Thailand should deepen trust in each other and expand cooperation to counter growing global uncertainties, President Xi Jinping said on Thursday during a meeting in Beijing with Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra. The Thai leader’s official visit to China from February 5 to …

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By Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -North Korean ballistic missiles fired at Ukraine by Russian forces since late December have been far more precise than salvos of the weapons launched over the past year, two senior Ukrainian sources told Reuters. At a time when Moscow’s burgeoning ties with Pyongyang are causing alarm from Washington to Seoul, …

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