(Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 has struck Pakistan, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said on Wednesday. The quake was at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.21 miles), GFZ said. (Reporting by Gursimran Kaur in Bengaluru; Editing by Christopher Cushing)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – There is a plan to hold a summit of at least 20 nations on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly to be held this month to look for ways “to talk some sense” into China over its confrontation with the Philippines, Manila’s ambassador to Washington said on Tuesday. “The more …
BRASILIA (Reuters) -Chinese troops will take part for the first time in Brazil’s annual military exercises this week that also include U.S. forces, the Brazilian Navy said on Tuesday. Pentagon spokesperson Major Pete Nguyen said, however, U.S. and Chinese forces would not be training together at the Brazil’s “Operation Formosa” exercises. “While the PRC are …
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By Joshua McElwee DILI (Reuters) -An estimated 600,000 people in East Timor, just under half its population, turned out in the baking heat on Tuesday for a Mass with Pope Francis at a coastal park synonymous with the country’s long struggle for independence from Indonesia. Filling a wide, dusty area where Indonesian forces buried slain …
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By Asif Shahzad and Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistani police arrested several lawmakers and leaders of ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party in midnight raids a day after it held a rally in the capital to demand his release, the party and police said on Tuesday. The former cricket star, 71, has been in jail …
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By Khanh Vu and Phuong Nguyen HANOI (Reuters) -The death toll in Vietnam from Asia’s worst storm this year reached 127 on Tuesday, with torrents of rain triggering floods and landslides, burying homes, sweeping away a bridge and now threatening the capital Hanoi. In several northern provinces, including the suburbs of Hanoi, residents waded through …
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(Reuters) -U.S. officials will hold talks with Bangladesh’s interim government to see how the United States can support the country’s economy and development, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday. An interim government led by Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus was sworn in last month with the aim of holding elections in the South Asian …
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By Vladimir Soldatkin and Dmitry Antonov MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday warned the United States against trying to outgun Moscow in Asia as Russian and Chinese warships held joint drills as part of the biggest Russian naval exercises since the Soviet era. Putin said the wider “Ocean-2024” strategic exercise would be conducted from …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India is not “closed to business from China”, but the issue is in which sectors the country does business with Beijing and on what terms, foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said in Berlin on Tuesday. Ties between the nuclear-armed Asian giants have been strained since clashes between their troops on their largely undemarcated …
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By Subrata Nag Choudhury KOLKATA (Reuters) -Junior doctors in India’s West Bengal state have vowed to keep up a strike in protest at the rape and murder of a trainee doctor unless their demands are met, defying a Supreme Court deadline for Tuesday. While demonstrations in other states have been gradually called off after the …
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