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Malaysia misses 2024 tourist arrival targets despite reporting over 25 million visitors

5 Feb 2025

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia recorded just over 25 million international tourist arrivals in 2024, falling short of its 27.3 million target that the tourism, arts, and culture ministry had set last year. The total figure of 25,016,698 international tourist arrivals still marked a 24.2% increase from the 20,141,846 international tourist arrivals reported in 2023, …

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Rugby-Beauden Barrett wants Japan back in expanded Super Rugby

5 Feb 2025

By Nick Mulvenney SYDNEY (Reuters) – All Blacks flyhalf Beauden Barrett is keen to see a return to Japanese involvement in Super Rugby Pacific, believing it would strengthen the competition and make it more attractive to players. From a peak of 18 teams across four continents in 2017, including the Japan-based Sunwolves, Super Rugby has …

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Thailand to cut power to Myanmar border areas linked to scam centres

5 Feb 2025

By Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand will suspend electricity supply to some border areas with Myanmar in an effort to curb scam centres, its government said on Tuesday, amid growing pressure on the illegal compounds that have ensnared vast numbers of people of multiple nationalities. According to the United Nations, hundreds of thousands of …

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Magnitude 6.2 quake hits offshore of Indonesia’s North Maluku

5 Feb 2025

JAKARTA (Reuters) – A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s North Maluku on Wednesday, the geophysics agency said.   The agency on social media platform X said the quake, which was 81 km (50 miles) deep, had no tsunami potential. There were no immediate reports of damage. Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency did not …

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South Korean military officer says he believed Yoon’s martial law ‘legitimate’

4 Feb 2025

By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) – A top South Korean military commander said on Tuesday he trusted President Yoon Suk Yeol to be making a legitimate decision when he declared martial law, but declined to say if the impeached leader gave orders to “drag” lawmakers out of parliament. Army Lieutenant General Lee Jin-woo testified at …

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UN warns maternal deaths in Afghanistan may rise after US funding pause

4 Feb 2025

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – A U.N. aid official said on Tuesday that a U.S. funding pause would cut off millions of Afghans from sexual and reproductive health services, and the continued absence of this support could cause over 1,000 maternal deaths in Afghanistan from 2025 to 2028. U.S. President Donald Trump last month …

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Crashed Azerbaijani plane was riddled with holes after incident over Russia, report says

4 Feb 2025

ASTANA (Reuters) -An Azerbaijani passenger plane that crashed in December after being diverted from Russia to Kazakhstan had suffered external damage and was riddled with holes in its fuselage, according to a report published on a Kazakh government website on Tuesday. Thirty-eight people were killed when the Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane crashed on Dec. 25 …

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Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban vow to stay united despite “enemy” bids to cause rifts

4 Feb 2025

KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers will stay united despite enemies’ efforts to create divisions among the movement’s leaders and the people, a spokesman said, ruling out the prospect of conflict or war stemming from differences of opinion. Some analysts and diplomats have voiced concern that divisions in the Taliban, which fought a 20-year war …

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Cricket-Former Sri Lanka captain Karunaratne to retire after second Australia test

4 Feb 2025

(Reuters) – Former Sri Lanka test skipper Dimuth Karunaratne will retire from the format after his 100th match, the final test of Sri Lanka’s two-test series against Australia in Galle on Thursday. Karunaratne made his Test debut at the Galle international Stadium in 2012 against New Zealand. The 36-year-old opener has scored 7,172 runs with …

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