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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he thought Thailand and Cambodia were “going to be fine” after he sought to mediate a flare-up in their border dispute, but the Thai leader continued to demand an apology from Phnom Penh. Thailand this week suspended a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal and demanded an apology over …

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By Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) -North Korean troops who helped Russia repel a major Ukrainian incursion into its western Kursk region are now playing an important role in clearing the area of mines, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Friday. Under a mutual defence pact between the two countries, North Korea last year sent some 14,000 …

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By Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) -China on Friday warned Japan of a “crushing” military defeat if it uses force to intervene over Taiwan, and even cautioned Chinese citizens against visits to Japan, angered by its prime minister’s remarks about the island, which Beijing claims. Tokyo on Friday summoned Beijing’s ambassador to Japan to protest against …

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By Irene Wang TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese baseball fans hailed Shohei Ohtani’s fourth unanimous MVP Award on Friday, calling the Los Angeles Dodgers star a source of national pride and welcome good news amid the economic gloom. “Despite going through a difficult period after getting married and having a child, he managed to give his all …

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BAKU (Reuters) -Azerbaijani prosecutors said they would seek sentences of up to life in prison for 15 ex-leaders and officials in Nagorno-Karabakh, two years after Baku retook the region that had been controlled by ethnic Armenians. Nearly all of Karabakh’s roughly 100,000 ethnic Armenians fled after Azerbaijan’s lightning offensive in September 2023. A slew of …

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