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SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea said on Saturday it has no choice but to continue efforts to build up capabilities for self-defense and accused the United States and South Korea of pushing the Korean Peninsula into war scenarios. “The DPRK will further intensify its practical efforts to deter the military threat of the hostile forces and …

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OTTAWA (Reuters) -South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul, asked on Friday whether Seoul could send weapons to Ukraine in response to North Korea’s aiding Russia, said all possible scenarios were under consideration. Cho, speaking through an interpreter, told a press conference in Ottawa that Seoul would be watching the level of participation by North Korean …

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By Colleen Howe and David Stanway BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China hopes the United States will be able to continue to cooperate with other countries on climate change, whatever the outcome of the presidential election next week, a senior government official said on Friday. Cooperation between China and the United States, the world’s top two emitters …

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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by an Indigenous community that sought to cancel a permit for a palm oil concession on thousands of hectares of rainforest it claimed as ancestral land, legal documents showed on Friday. Upholding the appeal could have set an important precedent in a country that has …

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BAKU (Reuters) – Azerbaijan as host of COP29 U.N. climate talks will this month launch a set of standards agreed by more than 100 countries to guide sustainable investment, the country’s central bank governor said on Friday. Climate finance taxonomies are needed to ensure investments are effective in reducing emissions, but investors are concerned the …

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BEIJING (Reuters) -China and Slovakia said on Friday they would boost trade and investment ties and spoke of the need for peace in Ukraine during a visit to Beijing by Prime Minister Robert Fico to launch a new strategic partnership. Chinese President Xi Jinping said he would encourage “powerful” Chinese enterprises to invest in Slovakia, …

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By Yuliia Dysa and Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy blasted what he called his allies’ “zero” response to Russia’s deployment of North Korean troops for the war in Ukraine, saying on Thursday a weak reaction would encourage Russia’s Vladimir Putin to beef up the contingent. The Ukrainian leader, in an interview with …

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By Dmitry Antonov MOSCOW (Reuters) -North Korea will back Russia until it achieves victory in the Ukraine war, Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui said on Friday at talks in Moscow with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. “Our traditional, historically friendly relations, which have travelled the tested path of history, today … are rising to a …

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By Sakshi Dayal NEW DELHI (Reuters) -New Delhi topped global pollution charts on Friday, partly due to revellers defying a ban on firecrackers to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. India’s national capital battles pollution each winter as cold air traps dust, emissions, and smoke from farm fires in the neighbouring states of Punjab …

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