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DHAKA (Reuters) – Hundreds of people protested in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Friday against violence targeting the country’s minority Hindus since former prime minister Sheikh Hasina quit and fled the country earlier this week. A school teacher was killed and at least 45 people injured as homes, businesses, and temples of Hindus in Muslim-majority …

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By Ruma Paul and Devjyot Ghoshal DHAKA (Reuters) – Improving law and order in Bangladesh is a priority for the new caretaker government, the adviser to the interior ministry said on Friday, as the battered nation limps back to normality after Sheikh Hasina resigned as prime minister and fled. Hasina flew to neighbouring India on …

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By Jay Ereno and Lisa Marie David MANILA (Reuters) – Crew of Philippine and Vietnamese vessels blasted a boat with water cannon and simulated a search and rescue on Friday, in the first such joint exercises between coast guards of two countries that have faced off with Beijing in the South China Sea. Vietnam’s 90-metre-long …

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By Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday cancelled plans to visit Central Asia and Mongolia this weekend, following an unprecedented advisory that the risk of a major Pacific coast earthquake was higher than usual. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued on Thursday its first-ever advisory of the risk of …

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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean Olympic silver medallist pistol shooter Kim Ye-ji, whose cool demeanour and appearance when competing at the Paris Games made her a social media sensation, collapsed at a news conference on Friday, apparently due to stress and exhaustion. Kim was speaking at the event in Imsil, the county that she represented …

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By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan issued its first-ever advisory on higher-than-usual risks of a megaquake, after a strong magnitude 7.1 quake occurred on Thursday at the edge of a tremulous seabed zone along the Pacific coast known as the Nankai Trough. A possible Nankai Trough megaquake and tsunami disaster could kill hundreds of …

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By Devjyot Ghoshal BANGKOK (Reuters) – The first priority of Bangladesh’s caretaker government is to improve law and order in the strife-torn country by restoring the morale of law enforcement agencies, its newly-appointed interior ministry adviser told Reuters on Friday. Retired Brig. Gen. M. Sakhawat Hossain said the administration was “very concerned” about reports of …

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By Mikhail Flores and Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) -Philippine Nobel laureate Maria Ressa’s news website Rappler won an appeal to restore its corporate licence after a court overturned a regulator’s decision to shutter the media company. The Court of Appeals, in a July 23 decision made public on Friday, had ruled the Philippine Securities …

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