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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian police have arrested two people for their alleged links to a marijuana smuggling network, foiling plans to send the drug in packages of bed linen and cat toys from Southeast Asia to the United Kingdom, authorities said on Monday. Marijuana busts occur occasionally in Indonesia, but the transnational nature of this …

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By Francesco Guarascio HANOI (Reuters) – An uncrewed Chinese military aircraft flew with its tracker switched on close to Vietnam’s coast last week, a South China Sea research body told Reuters, the first time in the group’s five years of monitoring that Beijing has made such operations visible. Friday’s flight by the WZ-10 aircraft originated …

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(Reuters) – Myanmar’s junta has lost communications with senior officers at a major military base near the Chinese border, in a rare admission of battlefield failure after rebels announced they had taken control of the key regional army headquarters. The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) rebel group, which said on July 25 it had …

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BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s coast guard said it was monitoring Philippine patrol and fishing vessels that have gathered around the contested Sabina Shoal, citing China’s “indisputable sovereignty” over the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. China’s coast guard had been monitoring the vessels since Saturday, spokesperson Gan Yu said in a statement late on Sunday. …

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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – A remote Australian island close to an Indian Ocean chokepoint for Chinese oil shipments is on a list of possible locations for U.S. military construction aimed at detering China, with the U.S. saying it “may or may not” support American forces. Australia’s Cocos Islands is listed along with the …

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BERLIN (Reuters) – The Group of Seven major democracies urged restraint and de-escalation in the Middle East on Monday, saying that recent events “threatened to ignite a broader conflict in the region.” The G7 urged “all involved parties once again to refrain from perpetuating the current destructive cycle of retaliatory violence, to lower tensions and …

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