By Phuong Nguyen and Francesco Guarascio HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong died on Friday after holding the country’s most powerful position for 13 years during which he oversaw fast economic growth, a years-long anti-graft crackdown and a pragmatic foreign policy. He was 80. Trong’s duties have been temporarily assigned to …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Violence between groups of men broke out in east London on Thursday night and police said the unrest was linked to protests in Bangladesh. Police intervened to separate two large groups fighting in the street in the Whitechapel district alongside a wider demonstration involving several hundred people. Whitechapel, famous for the curry …
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By Tora Agarwala GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) – A fleet of taxis, a security escort, and a harrowing six-hour journey brought Asif Hussain and about 80 other Indian students back home on Friday from Bangladesh, where violence has erupted between protesters and security forces. At least 20 people have been killed in the clashes this week …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Deadly protests by thousands of students in Bangladesh against quotas in government jobs has brought focus to a history of violence in a country born out of a war between India and Pakistan in 1971 in which nearly 3 million people were killed. Its founding father and first prime minister Sheikh …
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By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s new defence minister will meet with counterparts from Japan and Italy next week to discuss a joint fighter jet programme, as the new Labour government stressed its importance even as it declined to commit to it ahead of a defence review. The three countries in December signed an …
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By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) -Pakistani counter-terror officials have arrested an Al-Qaeda leader, Amin ul Haq, who figures on a U.N. sanctions list, they said on Friday, describing him as a close associate of the dead Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. Pakistan’s first Al-Qaeda arrest in many …
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(This July 15 story has been corrected to fix Pradeep Singh’s affiliation to Research Institute for Sustainability, not Potsdam Institute, in paragraph 5) By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The United Nations’ International Seabed Authority (ISA) will meet on Monday to consider new rules allowing firms to extract minerals from the ocean floor, despite mounting …
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By Xinghui Kok SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Singapore has ordered five social media platforms to block users in the city-state from accessing 95 accounts mostly linked to exiled Chinese tycoon Guo Wengui, the government said on Friday. The direction was issued to X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Tiktok under the Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Act on accounts that …
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s military said on Friday it had decided to resume its round-the-clock loudspeaker broadcast campaign targeting North Korea in response to what it called the “despicable, shameful and vulgar” launch of balloons by Pyongyang carrying trash across the border. The loudspeaker broadcasts and the balloons, which have been launched also by South …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang will attend the 21st China-Russia Energy Cooperation Committee meeting and the sixth China-Russia Energy Business Forum on July 21-23, the foreign ministry said on Friday. The Vice Premier will also attend the 11th meeting of the China-Russia Investment Cooperation Committee during his visit, the ministry said in …
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