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By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) – The United Nations Human Rights Office on Friday said it will dispatch a fact-finding mission to Bangladesh, as requested by the interim government, to investigate alleged human rights violations during recent deadly violence in the country. Last month’s anti-government protests, which began as a student-led movement against public sector …

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(Reuters) – Ukraine urged Mongolia on Friday to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin on an International Criminal Court warrant when he visits on Sept. 3, but the Kremlin said it was not worried about the trip. The ICC issued an arrest warrant in March of last year against Putin, accusing him of the war crime …

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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore’s home ministry said on Friday that it will introduce a law in coming months to grant police the power to temporarily restrict the banking transactions of targets of scams who refuse to believe they are being duped. The proposed law comes as the number of scam cases involving the voluntary transfer …

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By Asif Shahzad and Saleem Ahmad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The start of operations at a Chinese-funded airport in Pakistan’s Balochistan province has been pushed back for a security review after last week’s deadly attacks by separatist militants in the area, government and aviation sources said. More than 70 people were killed in the coordinated attacks …

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MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will visit China next month, his office said on Friday, with Beijing’s anti-dumping probe into EU pork imports as a backdrop. Sanchez will travel to Beijing and Shanghai on Sept. 7-12 and meet Chinese President Xi Jinping during his trip, according to a Spanish government source. A …

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By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s anti-graft body on Friday said it was investigating 44 members of the disbanded Move Forward party, following a complaint seeking their lifetime bans from politics for backing legislation aimed at amending a law against royal insults. It comes less than a month after a court …

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By Mikhail Flores MANILA (Reuters) -Vietnam and the Philippines agreed on Friday to advance defence and military relations and deepen collaboration on maritime security, in a significant step by two countries long at odds with Beijing over its actions in the South China Sea. Vietnamese Defence Minister Phan Van Giang was in Manila for talks …

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