By Blake Brittain (Reuters) – A German-Canadian resident of China was sentenced to 24 months in prison in the U.S. for stealing electric vehicle trade secrets from Tesla for his competing EV battery business, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Monday. Klaus Pflugbeil, 59, pleaded guilty in June to conspiring with business partner Yilong …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korean troops have entered combat alongside Russian forces in Kursk for the first time and Washington has indications that North Korean troops have been killed and injured, the Pentagon said on Monday. “We do assess that North Korean soldiers have engaged in combat in Kursk… we do have indications that they …
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By Andrew MacAskill and Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Labour government has pared back an audit of relations with China, four sources with knowledge of the matter said, preparing the way for a less critical report that could help Prime Minister Keir Starmer focus on improving economic ties. The Labour Party said before taking …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia will transfer Mary Jane Veloso, a Philippine woman sentenced to death in 2010 for drug trafficking, to her home country in the early hours of Wednesday, a senior Indonesian official said. Jakarta agreed last month to repatriate Veloso, a former domestic helper and mother of two, who was arrested in Yogyakarta 14 …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – A delegation of Chinese officials led by a deputy Shanghai mayor arrived in Taipei on Monday for an annual city-to-city forum, a rare visit happening at a time of heightened Taiwan-China military and political tension. China, which claims the democratically governed island as its territory, last week carried out large-scale military activities …
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(This Dec. 11 story has been corrected to fix the organization’s name from U.S. National Trade and Tourism Office to U.S. National Travel and Tourism Office in second graphic and in paragraph 2) By Aishwarya Jain (Reuters) – U.S. hotels and travel companies are aiming to tap a surge in Indian tourists to boost revenue …
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By Ju-min Park and Tom Bateman SEOUL (Reuters) – When South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol cited claims of election hacking and “anti-state” pro-North Korean sympathisers as justification for imposing a short-lived martial law, right-wing YouTuber Ko Sung-kook had heard it before. In fact, Ko had made the same claims himself many times to the …
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By Joyce Lee and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Monday began reviewing the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol over his Dec. 3 martial law proclamation, starting a process to decide if he will be removed from office, while investigators plan to question him this week on criminal charges. The court …
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By Ashley Tang and Panu Wongcha-um KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Monday appointed Thailand’s billionaire political heavyweight and former premier Thaksin Shinawatra as his personal adviser for when he becomes chair of Southeast Asia’s regional bloc next year. Anwar said Thaksin’s role during his leadership of the Association of Southeast …
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MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippine Senate on Monday ratified a reciprocal access agreement (RAA) with Japan that would allow their militaries to deploy on each other’s soil as both countries worry about China’s increasingly assertive stance in the region. The RAA, the first of its kind that Japan has signed in Asia, will ease the …
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