By Geert De Clercq PARIS (Reuters) – Two Afghan sisters in the black, red and green of Afghanistan’s pre-Taliban flag entered the Paris suburbs near the head of the peloton in the Olympic women’s road race on Sunday, throwing a spotlight briefly on their six-athlete team. Sent by Afghanistan’s Olympic Committee-in-exile as part of a …
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By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippines and Germany on Sunday committed to signing a defence cooperation arrangement this year, vowing to uphold international rules-based order in the region as tensions flare over disputed areas of the South China Sea. China and the Philippines have traded accusations in recent months over clashes in the South …
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Floods and mudslides destroyed village homes and part of a highway in China’s southwestern province of Sichuan on Saturday, killing at least two people and leaving 17 missing in two incidents, state media reported on Saturday. Overnight in Kangding, a mountainous region in Sichuan’s western highlands, mudslides took down some homes in …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered humanitarian aid to North Korea, which has been hit by heavy rainfalls and floods, Pyongyang’s state media KCNA said on Sunday. Relations between the two countries have grown closer, and Putin made the offer in a message to North Korean leader Kim Jong …
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By Richa Naidu PARIS (Reuters) – Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned the tearing up of a spectator’s banner reading “Taiwan go for it” by another spectator at the badminton venue at the Paris Olympics during competition on Friday. The Taiwanese spectator who was holding the sign posted a video on Facebook showing a …
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By Phuong Nguyen and Francesco Guarascio HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnamese President To Lam was named on Saturday to the nation’s top position, general secretary of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam, replacing Nguyen Phu Trong, who died two weeks ago. Lam, 67, had temporarily taken on the party chief’s duties on July 18, a day before …
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TOKYO (Reuters) -A U.S. military helicopter crash landed in a rice paddy southwest of Tokyo with no injuries on Saturday, national broadcaster NHK reported. There was no damage from the crash before 11 a.m. (0200 GMT) in Kanagawa prefecture neighbouring the capital, NHK said. The helicopter, which had a crew of 12 and had Navy …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – A separatist group in Indonesia’s easternmost region of Papua has agreed to free New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens from more than a year in captivity since kidnapping him, according to an audio message issued by a spokesperson on Saturday. An armed faction of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB), led by …
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(Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 struck off the eastern shore of the island of Mindanao in the Philippines on Saturday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), GFZ said. The U.S. Geological Survey said pegged the magnitude at 6.8. The U.S. National …
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By Ju-min Park and Lincoln Feast SEOUL/TEAHUPO’O, Tahiti (Reuters) – Australian surfer Jack Robinson removed a rising sun flag, associated with imperial Japan and adopted by late Hawaiian surfer Andy Irons, from surfboards he is riding in the Paris 2024 Olympics after a complaint by the management of South Korea’s team. Robinson included images on …
