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By Ju-min Park and Heekyong Yang SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea and the U.S. will reach agreement on sharing the cost of U.S. troops in the country if Donald Trump is elected president, even though he is likely to pressure Europe to increase defence spending, a former Trump security adviser said. During his first presidency …

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By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday vetoed a bill mandating a special counsel probe into allegations that military officials and the presidential office interfered in an internal investigation into the death of a marine last year. Yoon, who was visiting the United States to attend a NATO …

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By Kirsty Needham (Reuters) -Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai visited technology company Huawei in Shenzhen and viewed surveillance technology used to enhance policing and reduce criminal activity, his office said in a statement on Tuesday. Salwai, who travelled to Shanghai on Tuesday, is visiting China before attending a Pacific Island leaders meeting in Japan next …

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By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) – There are many examples in history of smaller militaries beating larger opponents, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te told air force officers in comments released on Tuesday, offering encouragement ahead of annual war games being held later this month. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its territory, has been staging …

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By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s government cybersecurity agency on Tuesday accused a China-backed hacker group of stealing passwords and usernames from two unnamed Australian networks in 2022, adding that the group remained a threat. A joint report led by the Australian Cyber Security Centre said the hackers, named APT40, had conducted malicious cyber …

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(This June 8 story has been corrected to say that Indonesia runs a small budget deficit, not a surplus, in paragraph 9) By Stefanno Sulaiman and Rae Wee JAKARTA/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Indonesia’s President-elect Prabowo Subianto wants to give school children free meals, but the plan and his pledge to be ‘daring’ on spending have the …

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By Ankur Banerjee and Uditha Jayasinghe SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Sri Lanka will wrap up talks with international bondholders on restructuring $12.5 billion in debt within a few weeks, Foreign Minister Ali Sabry said on Tuesday, a major step for the island nation to emerge from its worst financial crisis in decades. Sri Lanka will also seek …

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BEIJING (Reuters) -China said on Monday “illegal” beaching of Philippine warships at the Nansha islands in the South China Sea had “gravely damaged” the coral reef ecosystem in the area, as both countries tussle over disputed territory at atolls in the vast waterway. China’s Ministry of Natural Resources, in a comprehensive report, said Philippine warships …

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