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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean state media KCNA on Wednesday reported for the first time on South Korea’s ongoing political turmoil since President Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law attempt. Last week’s shocking martial law order triggered concerns about a power vacuum and plunged Asia’s fourth-largest economy and a key U.S. ally into a constitutional crisis, …

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(Reuters) – Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Beijing for two days of talks with Chinese leaders, Russian news agencies reported late on Tuesday. The visit by Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s powerful Security Council, is part of a deepening relationship between Moscow and Beijing. Both sides have pledged to intensify a “no …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at the Kremlin on Tuesday, according to the Russian state-run RIA news agency, citing Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Peskov did not disclose the details of the meeting. (Reporting by Maxim Rodionov; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)

By Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) – Russia moved a step closer towards recognising the Taliban government of Afghanistan on Tuesday as parliament voted in favour of a law that would make it possible to remove the Taliban from Moscow’s list of banned terrorist organisations. Parliament’s lower house, the Duma, approved the bill in the first of …

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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad denied allegations that he betrayed the country on Tuesday, after a royal inquiry called for a criminal probe against him over a 2018 government decision to drop claims on two disputed islets. In a report published last week, a royal commission of inquiry (RCI) recommended …

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