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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s parliament passed a bill on Wednesday that allows nurses to perform some medical procedures normally conducted by doctors as the healthcare workers called for greater legal protection amid a prolonged doctors’ strike. For years, nurse lobby groups and unions have pushed for a nursing law to improve …

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor will suspend operations of all 14 plants in Japan due to the approaching Typhoon Shanshan, from Wednesday evening through Thursday morning, the Nikkei business daily reported. The Japanese car maker will decide whether to resume Japan plants’ operations on Thursday morning, the Nikkei said. (Reporting by Kantaro Komiya; Editing by …

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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Top Macau judge Sam Hou Fai announced on Wednesday his intention to run in October elections for the territory’s chief executive, as the world’s biggest gambling hub tries to transform itself into a major regional tourist destination. Sam, head of the highest court in the Chinese special administrative region of Macau …

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By Satoshi Sugiyama and Tom Bateman MEIWA, Japan (Reuters) – The record high temperatures and sweltering weather that suffocated Japan this summer did not stop 77-year-old farmer Yasuyuki Kurosawa from tending his crops. Kurosawa, who grows rice, cabbage, wheat and corn in Meiwa, a town in the eastern Gunma prefecture, is one of nearly a …

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By Saleem Ahmad QUETTA (Reuters) – A Pakistani truck driver, who rescuers initially thought was dead, was recovering on Tuesday after hospital staff receiving bodies realised he was alive despite being shot five times in one of the most widespread attacks by ethnic militants in years. On Monday, Munir Ahmed was driving with three colleagues …

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BANGKOK (Reuters) -The Thai Air Force said on Tuesday it wanted to acquire Gripen 39 fighter jets built by Sweden’s SAAB to replace its ageing jet fighters. The Air Force said it had spent 10 months weighing all options before deciding “the JAS 39 Gripen E/F has the capability to match the demand of the …

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By Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) – Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr defended on Tuesday the deployment of 2,000 police officers at the weekend to arrest an influential pastor accused of sex trafficking who is a longtime friend of the country’s former president. Police think Apollo Quiboloy, a self-proclaimed “owner of the universe” and “appointed …

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By Ariba Shahid KARACHI (Reuters) -Pakistan aims to raise up to $4 billion from Middle Eastern commercial banks by the next fiscal year, the country’s central bank chief told Reuters on Tuesday, as the country looks to plug its external financing gap. In a wide-ranging interview, his first with any media organisation since taking office …

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