SEOUL (Reuters) – K-pop star Suga, a member of the boy band supergroup BTS, appeared before police on Friday for further questioning over a case of drunk driving on an electric scooter. Earlier this month, the songwriter and rapper made an apology after police fined him and revoked his licence for riding the e-scooter while …
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) -A bus carrying 43 Indian tourists and crew members plunged into a rain-swollen river in neighbouring Nepal on Friday, killing more than half of those on board, a Nepali armed police spokesperson said. A total of 27 people died and 16 were injured in the accident, said spokesperson Shailendra Thapa, adding that all …
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By Ananda Teresia and Johan Purnomo JAKARTA (Reuters) -Thousands of people rallied in several cities in Indonesia on Friday, pressuring its poll body to issue rules for regional elections amid outrage over an attempt by parliamentary allies of President Joko Widodo to change them in their favour. The protests followed a day of demonstrations in …
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By Fabian Hamacher and Ann Wang KINMEN, Taiwan (Reuters) – Taiwan wants to continue its free way of life and rejects being ruled by China’s Communist Party, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Friday, visiting a frontline island between the two sides to mark a key battle with Chinese forces. China’s military carried out another …
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By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) – Relentless monsoon rains and flooding have stranded nearly three million people in Bangladesh and killed two, submerging vast areas and damaging homes and infrastructure, officials from the country’s disaster management ministry said on Thursday. Reuters TV showed Bangladesh residents evacuating with their belongings by boat and other makeshift transportation …
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By Kirsty Needham (Reuters) – Climate change and security will dominate discussions at next week’s meeting of Pacific Islands leaders in Tonga as China and the United States jostle for influence in the region. The chairman of the Pacific Islands Forum, Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, told foreign ministers from the 18 member nations …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -A fire at a hotel in South Korea has killed seven people and injured 12 others, fire authorities said on Friday. The fire began on the eighth floor of the nine-story hotel in Bucheon, just west of the capital Seoul at around 7:40 p.m. (1040 GMT) on Thursday, before being put out in …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Western China’s development must build a “strong sense of community” and safeguard national unity and border stability, according to a readout from a key Politburo meeting, official news agency Xinhua reported on Friday. Western China comprises a number of provinces and regions including Xinjiang, Tibet and Yunnan. “It is necessary to …
BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thai rescuers used hoes on Friday to search muddy, forested terrain for debris and the remains of nine people aboard a charter flight that crashed the day before, authorities said, with all the travellers presumed dead. Five tourists from China and four Thais, including the two pilots, were on the Cessna Caravan C208B …
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LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – Robbers armed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades ambushed a police convoy in Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least eleven officers and wounding others, the police and interior ministry said. The incident took place in the southern Pakistani district of Rahim Yar Khan. A police statement said the robbers attacked two police …
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