SEOUL (Reuters) – A South Korean court on Friday rejected a request by the prosecutors’ office to extend the detention of President Yoon Suk Yeol, the Yonhap news agency said. (Reporting by Hyonhee Shin)
TOKYO/BEIJING (Reuters) -A Chinese court has sentenced a man to death over the fatal stabbing of a Japanese boy in the southern city of Shenzhen, Japan’s Kyodo news agency said on Friday, citing Japanese ambassador to China, Kenji Kanasugi. The trial started earlier in the day. The boy, a 10-year-old Japanese national born to a …
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MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines launched a comic book on Friday in its fight against what it called distorted narratives about maritime rights in the disputed South China Sea, a move which drew criticism from China. The 40-page comic book titled “The Stories of Teacher Jun” follows Teacher Jun and his students as they learn …
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A new law in Pakistan aimed at regulating social media content has angered journalism groups and rights activists, which say it is aimed at curbing press freedom and called on Friday for nationwide protests next week. Parliament introduced and passed the amendments to the Pakistan Electronic Crimes Act on Thursday. The new …
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KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s Taliban foreign ministry said on Friday it “strongly condemns” and rejects the International Criminal Court’s request for arrest warrants for two Taliban leaders. In a statement, the ministry said the warrants, which accused the two leaders of the persecution of women and girls, were “devoid of a fair legal foundation, characterised …
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By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand and China will work together to combat fast-growing networks of illegal call centres along the Thai border with Myanmar and Cambodia, often staffed by trafficked workers, that aim to defraud people in phone and online scams. Southeast Asia – especially border areas between Thailand, Myanmar, …
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(This Jan. 22 story has been corrected to fix the age of Wang Xing from 22 to 31 in paragraph 2) By Larissa Liao, Kevin Krolicki and Poppy McPherson BEIJING/BANGKOK (Reuters) – The abduction and cross-border rescue had all the makings of the kind of action script struggling Chinese actor Wang Xing had hoped to …
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By Shivam Patel NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indonesia and India will discuss boosting defence ties, including a potential deal to sell Russian-Indian supersonic cruise missiles to Jakarta, during the Indonesian president’s visit to New Delhi this week, according to people familiar with the discussions. Indonesia has been in protracted talks with BrahMos Aerospace, a joint …
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian rescuers on Friday paused search efforts because of bad weather as the death toll from a landslide on Java island three days ago rose to at least 25 people, said a spokesperson for the local rescuers. Torrential rain in the city of Pekalongan in Central Java province triggered the landslide on …
JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia and France signed an agreement on Friday on the repatriation of a Frenchman on death row for drug offences, a senior Indonesian minister said. Serge Atlaoui, who has been in jail in Indonesia since 2005, is scheduled to return to France on Feb. 4, the senior minister for law and human rights …
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