BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States on Friday condemned the “unjust imprisonment” of prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng and his wife Xu Yan, who were sentenced to three years and one year and nine months, respectively, by a Chinese court this week. Yu, 56, and Xu were imprisoned on charges of “inciting subversion …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s aircraft carriers Liaoning and Shandong carried out dual aircraft carrier formation exercises for the first time in the South China Sea, the PLA navy said, a move that sets China’s navy up for more diverse and complex missions. China is in disputes with several of its neighbours over its extensive …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – A 28-year-old woman who acted as a surrogate in China’s southwestern city of Chengdu is said to have been abandoned by her surrogacy agency, fuelling tides of criticism on social media and prompting health authorities to investigate the situation. Surrogacy is illegal in China and authorities said last year they would …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States said on Thursday it was concerned by Vietnam’s conviction and “harsh” sentencing of blogger Duong Van Thai, and deeply troubled by reports he was abducted by Vietnamese authorities in Thailand. The Committee to Protect Journalists cited media reports as saying that a Hanoi court sentenced Thai to 12 years in prison and three …
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By Akiko Okamoto TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese baseball fans celebrated along with their Los Angeles counterparts as local hero Shohei Ohtani added baseball’s biggest prize to his already huge collection of trophies by winning the World Series with the Dodgers. Ohtani, who played six years at the Los Angeles Angels without once making the playoffs, …
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council is likely to meet on Monday, two diplomats said, over North Korea’s test on Thursday of what Pyongyang said was an intercontinental ballistic missile. The United States, France, Japan, Malta, South Korea, Slovenia and Britain requested the meeting, the diplomats said. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – A lack of political leadership in brokering peace deals is prolonging conflicts and stretching aid groups tasked with addressing their worst impacts, a senior official of the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Thursday. By the ICRC’s count, more than 120 armed conflicts are raging around the …
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By Ananda Teresia JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled that changes must be made to some labour rules including ordering the establishment of sectoral minimum wages, in response to a petition by several workers unions. Unions had petitioned the court about a controversial Job Creation law they said went against workers’ rights …
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By Josh Smith (Reuters) -The Ukrainian government has named three North Korean generals it says are accompanying the thousands of Korean People’s Army troops deployed to Russia in aid of Moscow’s war in Ukraine. In prepared remarks to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday, Ukraine’s delegation said the three generals were among at least 500 …
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By Hyunsu Yim PAJU, South Korea (Reuters) – South Korean authorities in a village near the border with North Korea thwarted a plan on Thursday by a group of families of those believed to have been abducted by the North to send aloft balloons with leaflets criticising it, the group said. The failed bid to …
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