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Bridge partially collapses in southwest China, months after opening

11 Nov 2025

(Corrects to say worsening conditions and landslides led to partial bridge collapse, not the bridge collapse triggered landslides, paragraph 3) BEIJING (Reuters) -Part of a recently opened bridge collapsed in China’s southwestern province of Sichuan along a national highway linking the country’s heartland with Tibet on Tuesday, local authorities said, but there were no reports …

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Seven homemade bombs were planted in mosque last week, Indonesian police say

11 Nov 2025

By Ananda Teresia JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesian police found as many as seven homemade explosive devices at the site of a mosque bombing in Jakarta last week, four of which went off, police said on Tuesday, adding that the suspect was a “lone wolf” and not part of any “terror network”.  The explosions during Friday prayers last …

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Taiwan evacuates 3,000 as Typhoon Fung-wong approaches

11 Nov 2025

TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan evacuated more than 3,000 people on Tuesday, issuing a land warning for the arrival of Typhoon Fung-wong, which is expected to dump large volumes of rain on its mountainous east coast, recently lashed by another typhoon. The weakening Fung-wong is forecast to hit land on Wednesday on the island’s southwestern coast around …

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In Japan’s ancient capital, teamLab aims to redefine art with new immersive exhibition

11 Nov 2025

KYOTO, Japan (Reuters) -An immersive art space in the ancient Japanese capital of Kyoto is offering a novel experience to visitors from around the world, aiming to dissolve the boundary between observer and art. Titled “Biovortex”, the exhibition is the latest and largest permanent installation in Japan created by teamLab, an art collective that has …

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South Korea rescuers use explosives to reach workers trapped at collapsed building

11 Nov 2025

SEOUL (Reuters) -A South Korean team demolished two towering structures with explosives on Tuesday in a bid to clear the way to recover two workers who are presumed dead and two others missing in the rubble of a collapsed industrial facility. They were among nine who were working on the massive steel structure, a decommissioned …

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At least 12 killed in suicide bombing in Pakistan’s capital

11 Nov 2025

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -At least 12 people were killed in a suicide bombing outside a local court in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on Tuesday, the country’s interior minister said. (Reporting by Asif Shahzad, writing by Shilpa Jamkhandikar; Editing by YP Rajesh)

China’s CO2 emissions haven’t risen for 18 months, analysis finds

11 Nov 2025

By Colleen Howe BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s carbon dioxide emissions were flat year-on-year in the third quarter, extending a now 18-month streak of flat or falling emissions, an analysis for climate publication Carbon Brief found. The trend, which started in March 2024, means CO2 emissions could fall this year in the absence of any year-end spike, …

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Malaysia searches for Rohingya after boat sinks, toll climbs to 21

11 Nov 2025

By Ruma Paul LANGKAWI, Malaysia (Reuters) -Malaysian patrols searched coastal waters in the Andaman Sea on Monday for dozens of members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority, after a boat believed to be carrying them sank last week and another went missing. At least 21 bodies have been found since the vessel went down on Thursday – …

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China clears parents in naked child case that sparked social media fury

11 Nov 2025

(Refiles story to remove errant punctuation in headline) HONG KONG (Reuters) -Chinese government authorities said on Tuesday that a family whose three-year-old son had been photographed crawling naked at a vehicle service station off an expressway in the southwestern province of Sichuan had been cleared of any wrongdoing.  China’s Yunnan government issued a statement on …

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