KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Rescuers in Nepal searched on Saturday for 51 passengers and crew who went missing after a landslide swept their buses into a river swollen by heavy rain, an official said, adding that the chances of finding any survivors were diminishing. Some 500 rescuers resumed their search of the site of Friday’s incident …
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) -Rescuers in Nepal have suspended their search for 51 passengers who are missing after a landslide swept the buses in which they were travelling into a swollen river, authorities said. Officials initially said 62 people were missing after the incident in Chitwan district, about 86 km (53 miles) west of the capital Kathmandu, …
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By Adrian Portugal CAVITE PROVINCE, Philippines (Reuters) – Philippines police are investigating a suspected murder of an Australian couple and their Filipino relative who were staying at a hotel in a tourist spot south of the capital Manila, a senior police official said on Friday. Hotel staff found David Fisk, 57, his Filipino-born Australian citizen …
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday that jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party was eligible for over 20 extra reserved seats in parliament, ramping up pressure on the country’s weak coalition government. Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party candidates contested the Feb. 8 election as independents after it was barred from the polls. …
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By Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) -Natural disasters such as flooding, drought and extreme temperatures cost China 93.16 billion yuan ($12.83 billion) in the first half of this year, with almost 33 million people affected, the government said on Friday. Heavy snow, 22 strong earthquakes including one of 7.1 magnitude in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, …
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal is set for a new coalition government led by politician K.P. Sharma Oli after the more radical Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal lost a parliamentary vote of confidence on Friday, ending a tumultuous 20-month tenure. Nepal has been politically unstable since it abolished a 239-year-old monarchy in 2008. Oli’s new government …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China has rebuked the European Union over a statement about the South China Sea, saying the bloc ignored historical and objective facts of the issue and “blatantly” endorsed what it called the Philippines’ violation of its sovereignty. On Friday, the EU issued a statement to mark the eighth anniversary of arbitration on …
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By Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s main opposition Congress party asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday to impose an additional tax on the country’s billionaires to generate funds for stretched public services like education and health. The annual budget will be presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on July 23 at a …
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By Clare Jim HONG KONG (Reuters) – Higher-for-longer interest costs and ample retail and office vacancies have pushed the sales of distressed investment properties in Hong Kong higher in the second quarter, a trend realtors expect to continue in an already tepid real estate market. An increasing acceptance among lenders and landlords to book steeper …
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By Karen Lema and Mikhail Flores MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippines rejects the “use of force” to undermine its interests in the contested South China Sea but it does not want any conflict and has agreed with China to ease tensions in a contested shoal, officials said on Friday. “We don’t want war,” National Security Adviser …
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