SEOUL (Reuters) -A South Korean fire official said on Friday that at least three workers had died after the collapse of a large structure at a power station in South Korea that was being prepared for demolition. Two other workers had been located under the rubble and were presumed to have died, while two remain …
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BALI, Indonesia (Reuters) -A 69-year-old British woman who was on death row in Indonesia on drug offences departed the country early on Friday after Jakarta and London reached a deal to repatriate her and another prisoner on humanitarian grounds. Lindsay Sandiford was sentenced in 2013 after she was found with 4.8 kg (10.6 lb) of …
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By Claire Fu, Tingshu Wang and Josh Arslan SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) -When bank clerk Ren Yingxiao was looking for a honeymoon destination with her partner, they came across a scenic spot in the Xinjiang region that had it all – including a marriage registration office. “So we thought, why not go there and get our marriage …
By Ju-min Park and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea wants to receive enriched uranium from the United States to use as fuel for a nuclear-powered submarine and intends to build the vessel at home, a South Korean presidential official said on Friday. President Lee Jae Myung told U.S. President Donald Trump during summit talks …
By Jack Kim and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Friday towards the sea off its east coast, South Korea and Japan said, following missile launches in the past two weeks and after U.S. President Donald Trump’s renewed invitation for talks with Pyongyang. South Korea’s military said the suspected …
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HANOI (Reuters) -At least five people died in Vietnam after Typhoon Kalmaegi pummelled coastal regions with destructive winds and heavy rain, officials said on Friday, following the storm’s deadly passage through the Philippines where it killed at least 188 people. The storm made landfall in central Vietnam late on Thursday, uprooting trees, damaging homes, and …
By Matt Spetalnick, Simon Lewis and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Kazakhstan will join the Abraham Accords to have normalized relations between Israel and Muslim-majority nations. The announcement came after Trump said he had held a call with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. …
(Corrects November 6 story to two people rescued in paragraph 1, not four, and paragraph 4 to two remain under the rubble) SEOUL (Reuters) – Authorities in South Korea fear five people remain trapped on Thursday after the collapse of a large structure at a power station in the city of Ulsan, a fire official …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Thursday lifted an embargo on defense trade with Cambodia, after President Donald Trump oversaw the signing of a ceasefire deal between the Southeast Asian country and its neighbor Thailand last week. Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden, imposed the ban on arms exports to Cambodia in 2021, citing the growing influence …
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By Minh Nguyen HOI AN, Vietnam (Reuters) -Typhoon Kalmaegi slammed into Vietnam on Thursday, forcing authorities to cancel hundreds of flights and order people to stay indoors, two days after the storm started sweeping across the Philippines, killing at least 114 people. Kalmaegi – packing winds of up to 149 kph (93 mph), according to …
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