NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will visit the Maldives from Friday to Sunday, New Delhi said in a statement on Thursday. Jaishankar’s visit comes months after ties between the two nations were strained after Maldives President Mohamad Muizzu, elected last year, pledged to end the country’s “India First” policy. (Reporting by …
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s disbanded Move Forward political party on Thursday rallied its supporters to prepare for the launch of its new name and leadership, and urged them to make their case at the ballot box rather than on the streets.Move Forward was the largest force in parliament until the Constitutional Court dissolved the party …
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HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam supports Cambodia’s plan to build a canal from the Mekong River basin to the Cambodian coast and would like to be involved in finding solutions for the canal’s possible negative effects, its foreign ministry said on Thursday. Cambodian authorities broke ground on Monday on the $1.7-billion Funan Techo Canal, a project …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – A North Korean resident has crossed the maritime border in the Yellow Sea and defected to South Korea, the Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday, citing South Korea’s military. The resident crossed the Northern Limit Line in the Yellow Sea, a contested sea border off the west coast. South Korea’s defence ministry …
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(Reuters) – Sri Lanka spinner Praveen Jayawickrama has been charged with three counts of anti-corruption code breaches for failing to report an approach to fix matches and obstructing an investigation, cricket’s global governing body said on Thursday. Jayawickrama, 25, was approached to fix international matches and was asked to approach another player to fix matches …
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By Hyonhee Shin and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea could rupture its U.S. alliance and shock financial markets if it started building nuclear weapons, Defence Minister Shin Won-sik told Reuters, dismissing renewed domestic calls for the country’s own arsenal to deter North Korea. As the neighbouring North rapidly expands nuclear and missile capabilities, …
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By Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK (Reuters) – Four years ago, when Thai opposition party Future Forward was dissolved by the Constitutional Court for trying to amend a law protecting the powerful monarchy from criticism, supporters took to the streets, triggering months of civil unrest. A repeat of these mass protests is unlikely, however, even after the …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – At least two people have died from heat-stroke in one Chinese city, and many more have fallen ill, as temperatures hovered around 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) for the eighth day on the eastern seaboard. Over the next three days, most areas south of the Yangtze River, which empties into the …
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(Reuters) – A North Korean military delegation will attend a military-technical forum in the Moscow region on August 12-14, Russian state-run news agency RIA Novosti reported on Thursday, citing a diplomatic source. Moscow and Pyongyang have intensified cooperation since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. (Reporting by Reuters)
By Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) – Nagasaki’s mayor said he would stick to a decision to exclude Israel’s ambassador from Friday’s event to mark the city’s atomic bombing, though senior diplomats of the United States and other Group of Seven nations said the snub would keep them away. Their absence could embarrass Japanese Prime Minister …
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