By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -Senior aides to South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol offered to resign en masse on Wednesday, a day after his office expressed regret over acting President Choi Sang-mok’s approval of two new judges to a court set to decide Yoon’s fate. Yoon’s chief of staff, policy chief, national security …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese meteorological data shows 2024 was the warmest year for the country since comparable records began more than six decades ago, the second straight year in which milestones were broken. The national average temperature stood at 10.92 degrees Celsius (51.66 Fahrenheit) last year, more than 1 degree higher than 2023, according to …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his daughter Ju Ae attended New Year’s celebrations including fireworks and an ice dancing display, state media KCNA reported on Wednesday. Senior North Korean officials joined them in watching the events, state media photos showed. There was no mention of any speech by Kim. KCNA also …
By Shoon Naing (Reuters) – Myanmar said its 2024 census found a population of 51.3 million, slightly smaller than 10 years ago, as the junta prepares for promised elections amid ongoing conflict and unrest across the country, state media reported on Wednesday. The census, which was held in October, will be used to compile voter …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Wednesday that he welcomed equal, dignified, healthy and orderly exchanges with China, but wondered whether there was goodwill from Beijing given what he said was their blocking of simple things like tourism. Lai, who took office in May, has regularly offered talks with China but been rebuffed. …
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By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – About a dozen nuns performed hand chops and high kicks, some of them wielding swords, as they showed off their martial art skills to hundreds of cheering wellwishers at the long-awaited reopening of their nunnery in Nepal. The nuns of the hill-top Druk Amitabha Monastery, put on the show …
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By Hyonhee Shin and Joyce Lee SEOUL/MUAN COUNTY, SOUTH KOREA (Reuters) – Air safety experts on Tuesday questioned the placement of an airport embankment into which a South Korean passenger jet slammed after skidding past the end of the runway, resulting in the country’s deadliest domestic air disaster. All 175 passengers and four of the …
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(Reuters) -Two bulk carriers collided in China’s Yangtze river, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) said on Tuesday, adding that no injuries to the crew were reported. Vega Dream, owned and operated by Japan’s Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, collided with Yangze 22, the bulk carrier sailing under the Singaporean flag, on Dec. 30, although …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China has shared the most COVID-19 data and research results in the international community, its foreign ministry said on Tuesday, after the World Health Organization repeated its call for more information and access. China is also the only country that organised experts to share traceability progress with the WHO on many occasions, Mao …
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PODGORICA (Reuters) -Montenegro on Tuesday extradited Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon to the United States, where he faces charges of having deceived investors about the stability of the TerraUSD cryptocurrency and how an app used the Terraform blockchain. Kwon was handed over to U.S. law enforcement officers and agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation …
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