By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea has disclosed the first photos of a uranium enrichment site designed to produce weapons-grade fuel for its nuclear bombs. Here’s what we know about its growing nuclear arsenal. WHY IS NORTH KOREA BUILDING NUCLEAR WEAPONS? North Korea says its arsenal of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles to …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Top Russian security official Sergei Shoigu held talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a visit to Pyongyang on Friday, Russian news agencies said. The visit took place at a critical juncture in the war in Ukraine, for which the United States says North Korea has supplied ammunition and ballistic …
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DHAKA (Reuters) – At least six people, including three Rohingya refugees, died and several others were injured on Friday after heavy rains triggered landslides in southeastern Bangladesh, officials said. The landslides took place in two separate places in the border district of Cox’s Bazar, including the Rohingya camps, after three days of intense late monsoon …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s top legislative body has approved an amended statistics law, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday, in the latest move to fight persistent data fraud amid scepticism about the reliability of data in the world’s second-largest economy. Xinhua said the standing committee of the National People’s Congress approved the law. …
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By Khanh Vu and Minh Nguyen HANOI/THAI NGUYEN (Reuters) – The death toll in Vietnam from typhoon Yagi and the landslides and flash floods it triggered rose to 226 on Thursday, the government’s disaster agency said, as flood pressure eased in the capital Hanoi. The Southeast Asian country is reeling from the impact of Typhoon …
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(Reuters) -Several people were killed and others injured in an attack by unknown armed individuals in Afghanistan on Thursday, the country’s Interior Ministry spokesman said, the first attack on civilians in Daykundi province since the Taliban took power. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, the group said on Thursday on its Telegram channel. …
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(Reuters) -The U.S. State Department on Thursday imposed sanctions on a Chinese research institute and several companies it said have been involved in supplying Pakistan’s ballistic missile program. Washington similarly targeted three China-based companies with sanctions in October 2023 for supplying missile-applicable items to Pakistan. Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement that the …
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By David Brunnstrom, Francesco Guarascio and Poppy McPherson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States announced sanctions on Thursday on Cambodian businessman and ruling party senator Ly Yong Phat as well as several entities over alleged abuses related to workers who were trafficked and forced to work in online scam centers. The move, plans for which were …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will host a Quad leaders summit with leaders from Australia, India and Japan on September 21 in Delaware, the White House said on Thursday. “The Quad Leaders Summit will focus on bolstering the strategic convergence among our countries, advancing our shared vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific …
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(This Sept. 11 story has been corrected to remove the reference to civilian death toll in Gaza, in paragraph 18) By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Every September world leaders travel to New York to address the start of the annual United Nations General Assembly session. The six days of speeches to mark the …
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