SEOUL (Reuters) – Two people have died and 12 are missing after a fishing boat sank on Friday in waters off South Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju, officials said. Another boat nearby raised the alarm after reporting the 129-ton ship was going under at around 4:30 a.m. (1930 GMT on Thursday), prompting authorities to …
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(Reuters) – This year’s U.N. climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, marks the world’s 29th leadership gathering to confront global warming since the first “Conference of the Parties” in 1995. Here are some of the most significant moments in the history of climate talks: 1800s – For about 6,000 years before the industrial era, global …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s new leader Prabowo Subianto set off for China on Friday for his first international trip as president, kicking off a tour that will include stops in the United States, Britain, and South America for the APEC and G20 summits. Prabowo, who won the presidency in February at his third attempt, has …
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By Shivam Patel NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s three-decade ban on importing author Salman Rushdie’s controversial ‘The Satanic Verses’ book has effectively been lifted after a court said the government was unable to produce the original notification that imposed the ban. The India-born British author’s novel was banned by India in 1988 after some Muslims …
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s coast guard said on Friday it would offer rewards worth thousands of dollars for spotting Chinese activity at sea, including warships or submarines, saying it was harnessing “people power” to boost its own limited workforce. Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, has complained for the past five years of …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday North Korean troops had suffered casualties in combat with Kyiv’s forces and that some of the 11,000 troops sent to Russia’s Kursk region had taken part in fighting. The Ukrainian leader, speaking at a news conference at the European Political Community summit in Budapest, said …
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By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) – The amount of finance provided to developing countries to help them adapt to the impacts of climate change is far short of the $359 billion a year needed even after the biggest annual increase yet, a U.N. report on Thursday showed. Funding from the developed world hit $28 billion …
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By Valerie Volcovici (Reuters) -This month’s U.N. climate summit – COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan – has been dubbed the “climate finance COP” for its central goal: to agree on how much money should go each year to helping developing countries cope with climate-related costs. That discussion could be tough following Tuesday’s re-election of former U.S. …
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The Pakistan army said on Thursday that four of its soldiers were killed in a firefight with militants near the northwestern border with Afghanistan. Five Islamist militants were also killed, it said. The fire exchange took place in tribal region of South Waziristan, which sits next to the Afghan border – a …
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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With the assistance of China’s Zhurong rover, scientists have gathered fresh evidence that Mars was home to an ocean billions of years ago – a far cry from the dry and desolate world it is today. Scientists said on Thursday that data obtained by Zhurong, which landed in the …
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