(Reuters) – The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale to Taiwan of about $265 million of command, control, communications, and computer modernization equipment, the Pentagon said on Friday. (Reporting by Ryan Jones; Editing by Jasper Ward)
(Reuters) -The disappearance 10 years ago of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 with 239 people on board remains one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries. The Boeing 777 went missing on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014. Satellite data analysis showed the plane likely crashed somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean, …
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By Ashley Tang and Mandy Leong KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Malaysia has agreed to resume the search for the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, its transport minister said on Friday, more than 10 years after it disappeared in one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries. Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and …
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Provincial authorities in northwestern Pakistan said on Friday they planned to collect heavy weapons to stop sectarian clashes that have killed hundreds, but tribesmen in the historically lawless region said they would not give up their arms. Kurram, a tribal district of around 600,000 near the border with Afghanistan where federal …
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(Reuters) – Cambodia’s influential former Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Friday that Japan would be granted visitation rights to the country’s Ream Naval Base, a facility the United States is concerned could become a military outpost for China. Chinese military vessels have been rotating through Ream since a Beijing-funded upgrade started in June 2022. …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s anti-graft agency has raided the office of the Financial Services Authority as part of an investigation into alleged misuse of corporate social responsibility funds by financial regulators, the agency said on Friday. The raid was on Thursday, days after the agency conducted similar search at the central bank’s headquarters, the agency …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s coast guard said on Friday it warned and “drove away” a Philippine C-208 aircraft that “illegally” entered the airspace over Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea. China urges the Philippine side to immediately cease “violations and provocations”, the coast guard said, adding that it will continue to strengthen law enforcement …
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By Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand has told Myanmar’s junta that ASEAN members would want all stakeholders included in an election the military government plans to hold next year, even as the regional bloc seeks a common position on the polls, Thai officials said on Friday. “If there is an election, ASEAN would want …
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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia will provide over $100 million to help the Solomon Islands, which also has security ties with China, expand its police force so it can reduce its reliance on external partners, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday. The U.S. and Australia have been racing to limit China’s security ambitions …
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By Francesco Guarascio and Phuong Nguyen HANOI (Reuters) – UNESCO will deploy a team of experts to assess possible risks for the conservation of Ha Long Bay in Vietnam as it is worried about development projects that may threaten the heritage-listed tourist attraction, the U.N. agency told Reuters. The bay and the adjoining Cat Ba …
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