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NEW DELHI/DHAKA (Reuters) -Bangladesh’s caretaker government told Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi on Friday that reports of attacks on Hindus and other minorities in the Muslim-majority country are “exaggerated” and assured him it is committed to protecting everyone. A schoolteacher was killed and at least 45 people injured as homes, businesses, and temples of Hindus …

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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s outgoing government submitted a 2025 budget plan to parliament on Friday targeting a narrower deficit than this year, which analysts said signalled Southeast Asia’s largest economy would remain fiscally prudent under its next president. The projected 2025 deficit in president-elect Prabowo Subianto’s first budget, at 2.53% of GDP, would be smaller …

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HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party on Friday added the country’s most senior police officer to its elite Politburo, the government said, another sign of the growing political clout of its powerful internal security agency. The promotion of 58-year-old Luong Tam Quang comes less than two months after he became Minister of Public Security, …

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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Premier Li Qiang told a cabinet plenary session on Friday that great efforts must be made to boost the economy and the country will focus on stimulating consumption, state media reported. Li added that China will look at measures to boost household income in both rural and urban areas, and will …

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By Shivam Patel NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India will hold provincial elections in the Himalayan territory of Jammu and Kashmir from Sept. 18, the Election Commission said on Friday, the first regional polls there in a decade and five years after New Delhi scrapped the region’s special autonomy. India’s only Muslim-majority region, Jammu and Kashmir has …

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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Joint production of hypersonic missiles by Australia and the United States could reduce strain on the U.S. defence industrial base and boost deterrence in the Indo-Pacific region, U.S. Republican lawmaker Michael McCaul said in Sydney on Friday. In an interview, the chair of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee …

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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan grounded hundreds of flights and urged tens of thousands of people to evacuate in the eastern parts of the country on Friday, as a strong typhoon caused power blackouts in the middle of a major summer holiday week. Typhoon Ampil, categorised as “very strong” by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), was situated …

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