By Francesco Guarascio and Phuong Nguyen HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam is ready to work with BRICS, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said as he attended the group’s summit for the first time this week and held meetings with Chinese and Russian leaders. Chinh fell short of stating Vietnam’s explicit interest in joining the club, a …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia has expressed its desire to join the BRICS group of major emerging economies, which accounts for 35% of global economic output, as a means to strengthen emerging countries, its foreign ministry said in a statement. As BRICS world leaders convened in Kazan for a summit this week, Indonesia’s foreign ministry said …
(Reuters) -Ukraine’s military intelligence service said on Thursday that the first North Korean units trained in Russia had been deployed in the Kursk region, a Russian border area where Ukrainian forces staged a major incursion in August. The Kremlin has previously dismissed reports about the North’s troop deployment as “fake news”. But Russian president Vladimir …
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By Vladimir Soldatkin KAZAN, Russia (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin did not deny U.S. claims that North Korea had sent troops to Russia but said on Thursday it is up to Moscow how to run its mutual defence clause with Pyongyang and accused the West of escalating the Ukraine war. The United States said on Wednesday …
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KAZAN, Russia (Reuters) – Here’s a brief summary of the outcome of the BRICS summit: * XI AND MODI: Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met just two days after New Delhi announced that it had reached a deal with Beijing to resolve a four-year military stand-off on their Himalayan frontier. …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s prime minister on Thursday apologised for the deaths two decades ago of dozens of Muslim protesters who were piled up in army trucks, hours from the expiry of the statute of limitations on an incident over which no state official has been convicted. The security crackdown in the southern town of …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A powerful cyclone is expected to barrel into India’s eastern coast early on Friday. Here are some key details about its landfall and intensity, and the measures being taken by authorities to protect people and property. LANDFALL The ‘severe cyclonic storm’, named Dana, is expected to cross the coasts of the …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – About 146 Rohingya, including children, came ashore in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province on Thursday, an official said, the second wave of arrivals to the Southeast Asian country within a week. A boat carrying 64 men, 62 women and 20 children landed early on Thursday morning, in the Deli Serdang area of North …
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MANILA (Reuters) -Tropical Storm Trami has killed at least 26 people and forced more than 150,000 to flee their homes in the Philippines, officials said on Thursday, as it made landfall on the northeastern coast. Trami, locally known as severe tropical storm Kristine, dumped heavy to torrential rain on the main island of Luzon triggering …
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By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan President Lai Ching-te will visit a sensitive group of frontline islands that sit next to the Chinese coast on Friday for the 75th anniversary of a key victory over communist forces and just over a week since China staged war games. Taiwan has controlled Kinmen, and the Matsu …
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