WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China’s consul general in New York left his post as scheduled after completing his posting, the State Department said on Wednesday, after New York Governor Kathy Hochul said she requested his expulsion after one of her aides was charged with secretly acting as a Chinese agent. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Pope Francis praised Indonesians on Wednesday for their large families and suggested that people in other countries are choosing to have pets rather than bring up children. The 87-year-old pontiff was speaking alongside Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo in Jakarta on the first stop on a four-country trip to Asia. “And your country…has …
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By Joshua McElwee and Stefanno Sulaiman JAKARTA (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Wednesday urged political leaders in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, to guard against religious extremism, which he said distorted people’s beliefs through “deception and violence”. On a packed first full day of his longest ever overseas journey that includes nine days …
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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee subpoenaed Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday, saying he had refused to appear before the panel to testify on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021. In a letter about the subpoena, Chairman Michael McCaul said Blinken must appear before …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s defence ministry said on Wednesday it was monitoring Chinese landing drills taking place in a province that lies opposite the island on the other side of the Taiwan Strait, where previous such exercises have taken place. China, which views democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory, has ramped up military and political …
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By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The outcome of November’s presidential election will loom large over talks in Beijing this week between U.S. climate envoy John Podesta and his Chinese counterpart Liu Zhenmin, experts said on Wednesday. Co-operation between the world’s two biggest greenhouse gas emitters has helped pave the way for major climate deals, …
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By Mikhail Flores, Neil Jerome Morales and Ananda Teresia MANILA/JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia will deport to the Philippines a fugitive former mayor accused of ties to Chinese criminal syndicates and money-laundering to the tune of more than 100 million pesos ($1.8 million), Jakarta’s law minister said on Wednesday. Alice Guo, also known as Chinese national Guo …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – An Indonesian parliamentary committee and the government have reached agreement on key economic assumptions for 2025 for the new administration led by Prabowo Subianto, who takes office next month, the budget committee’s chair said on Wednesday. Most of the budget assumptions in the original 2025 proposal by outgoing President Joko Widodo were …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) -The United States will not rule out the possibility of jointly producing weapons with Taiwan, its top diplomat in Taipei said on Wednesday, adding that the island’s defence needs were the top priority for U.S. arms deliveries. The United States is Taiwan’s most important international supporter and arms supplier, despite the lack of …
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By Idrees Ali and Laurie Chen WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States is set to send Michael Chase, the deputy assistant secretary of defence for China, Taiwan and Mongolia, to China’s top annual security forum in mid-September, a U.S. official told Reuters. The choice of Chase has not been previously reported. He is more senior …
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