By Ricardo Brito and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) – Hundreds of migrants from India, Nepal and Vietnam have been stuck in Sao Paulo’s international airport for weeks in alarming conditions, sleeping on the floor as they wait to enter Brazil, according to the Public Defender’s Office and documents seen by Reuters on Friday. A spokesman …
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By Tora Agarwala, Ruma Paul GUWAHATI/DHAKA (Reuters) -Soldiers in lifeboats ferried people to safety in India’s northeastern state of Tripura on Friday after heavy rain triggered floods and landslides, forcing more than 65,000 people from their homes and killing 23, authorities said. Television images showed army personnel manning the rescue craft, while cars and buses …
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QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) -A bomb blast in southwestern Pakistan killed two children and injured 16 people on Saturday, police officials said. Seven policemen were among those injured when the remote-controlled bomb, attached to a motorcycle, detonated near police headquarters in Pishin, the city’s senior superintendent of police, Manzoor Buledi, told Reuters. “Explosives were planted in …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Shigeru Ishiba, a former defence minister, said on Saturday he would run in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party leadership election on Sept 27 that will pick a successor to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. Kishida will step down in September, ending a three-year term as leader of the world’s fourth-largest economy. In a …
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MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines called on Beijing on Saturday to “immediately cease all provocative and dangerous actions” after accusing it of “unjustifiably” deploying flares from China-occupied Subi Reef on Aug. 22 while a Manila aircraft was conducting patrols. The same aircraft also “faced harassment” from a Chinese jet fighter while it was conducting a …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Nikki Haley, a former rival to Donald Trump for the U.S. Republican presidential nomination, said on Saturday that isolationism was not healthy and that the party should stand with the country’s allies, especially in the face of China. Speaking to reporters during a visit to Taiwan, Haley – Trump’s ambassador to the …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea expressed serious concern and strongly condemned on Saturday a revised nuclear strategic plan approved by U.S. President Joe Biden this year. “The DPRK will as ever bolster up its strategic strength in every way to control and eliminate all sorts of security challenges that may result from the U.S. dangerous …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt, David Brunnstrom and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan will travel to China next week for talks with top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi, a visit aimed at keeping U.S.-China tensions in check with the November U.S. election fast approaching. In Aug. 27-29 talks in Beijing, Sullivan …
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(Reuters) – A dense bamboo forest in rebel-held territory surrounds the training ground in eastern Myanmar where more than 100 young people, mostly in their twenties, are undergoing rigorous military drills. From former chefs to ex-journalists, rappers and poets, people from all walks of life have joined the resistance movement with a single goal: to …
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BEIJING/LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday the two countries must be able to talk frankly about their disagreements and also pursue closer economic ties and work together on global issues. Xi told Starmer during a phone call that he hoped Britain would “look at China objectively and …
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