SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea condemned Ukraine’s incursion into Russia as an unforgivable act of terror backed by Washington and the West, adding it would always stand with Russia as it seeks to protect its sovereignty, state media said on Sunday. Ukraine’s drive into Russia is a product of the anti-Russia confrontational policy of the …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Vietnam’s top leader To Lam arrived in China on Sunday for a three-day visit, according to Chinese state media, which Beijing’s foreign ministry has said will include meetings with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang. The Vietnamese president, who was elevated this month to the nation’s top position, general secretary of …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – The leaders of South Korea, Japan and the United States issued a joint statement on Sunday marking the anniversary of their summit at Camp David and reaffirmed a pledge to jointly tackle regional challenges, South Korea’s presidential office said. The principles on trilateral cooperation established at the summit last year continues to …
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By Willy Kurniawan NUSANTARA, Indonesia (Reuters) – Indonesia celebrated its independence anniversary at the site of its planned new capital, Nusantara, for the first time on Saturday, in a scaled-back ceremony as the still-under-construction city is beset by problems and faces delays. A legacy project of outgoing President Joko Widodo, Nusantara has suffered construction delays …
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TOKYO (Reuters) -Outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is finalising plans to visit the U.S. in late September for the U.N. General Assembly and a possible meeting with President Joe Biden, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Saturday. The visit may take place for several days starting on Sept. 22, the report said, citing multiple government …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand’s billionaire former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra received a royal pardon shortening his parole by two weeks, his lawyer said on Saturday, a day after his daughter was elected premier by parliament. Thaksin has been at the heart of a two-decade power struggle between the Shinawatra family and its allies on the one …
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By Sam Jahan and Mokammel Mridha COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) – Ducking as mortar fire exploded around them, Rohingya refugee Mustafa Kamal and his family narrowly escaped the attack by a rebel militia on their town in western Myanmar. Crowds had gathered on a small island to seek shelter after witnessing killings in the coastal …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. officials met virtually with members of Myanmar’s opposition movement on Friday and pledged to expand direct support to help a transition to civilian government and agreeing on the need to maintain pressure on the military junta, the State Department said. News of the meeting came after Washington’s regional rival China urged …
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By Ruma Paul, Krishn Kaushik, Devjyot Ghoshal and Krishna N. Das DHAKA (Reuters) -Student demonstrators who ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have rejected calls from Bangladesh’s two main political parties for quick elections and are considering creating their own party to sustain their movement, according to interviews with four protest leaders. Their hope: to avoid …
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By Mushtaq Ali and Charlotte Greenfield PESHAWAR (Reuters) -Pakistan’s health ministry has confirmed at least one case of the mpox virus in a patient who had returned from a Gulf country, it said on Friday, though they did not yet know the strain of the virus. A health ministry spokesperson said the sequencing of the …
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