By Joe Cash and Anita Komuves BEIJING/BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday to discuss a potential Ukraine peace deal, paying the unexpected visit to Beijing days after his talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin angered some European Union leaders. Orban and Xi met at the Diaoyutai State Guest …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – At least 10 people have died and 40 are missing after torrential rain caused a landslide in a gold mine in Indonesia’s Sulawesi island at the weekend, officials said on Monday, with bad weather hampering the rescue effort. The landslide on Sunday morning in Suwawa district, Gorontalo province, killed miners and residents …
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By Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Charlotte Greenfield KABUL (Reuters) – The Taliban has promoted an official, who is the subject of U.S. counter-terrorism sanctions, as the central bank’s new acting governor, a spokesman said, a move likely to be watched by Washington which has frozen billions of the bank’s reserves. Taliban administration spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid …
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By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s parliament will vote this week to change a law to allow Elon Musk’s Starlink, the satellite unit of SpaceX, to set up operations in the South Asian island nation, a Sri Lankan minister told Reuters on Monday. Under the new telecommunications bill, once it is passed in …
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By Dhwani Pandya and Sudipto Ganguly MUMBAI (Reuters) -Heavy rains flooded roads and railway lines on Monday in India’s financial capital Mumbai, disrupting flights and forcing the closure of schools and colleges. Just ahead of the morning rush hour, more than 300 mm (11.8 inches) of rain lashed the city of 12 million in the …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese state media on Monday criticized the state grains stockpiler Sinograin after local media reported that its fuel tankers were allegedly also used to transport cooking oil, sparking food safety concerns. The Beijing News last week reported it was an “open secret” in the transportation industry that Sinograin was using tankers to …
By Mikhail Flores and Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines hailed an “unprecedented” high in defence ties with Japan after the signing on Monday of a landmark military pact allowing deployment of forces on each other’s soil in the face of China’s increasingly assertive stance in the region. The Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA), the …
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By Arpan Chaturvedi NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian lawyers and activists are urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to put on hold three sets of new criminal laws, arguing they will increase litigation in an already overburdened justice system and give excessive powers to police. India this month replaced its criminal justice system – the …
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By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea said on Monday it would drop a plan to suspend the licenses of striking trainee doctors, offering a concession to end a months-long walkout prompted by the government’s decision to increase medical school admissions. Thousands of trainee doctors, which include medical interns and resident doctors, walked off …
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) resumed trading on Monday after a two-hour suspension due to a fire in the bourse’s Karachi headquarters. In a notice on its website, the exchange said trading was suspended at 10:25 a.m. (0525 GMT) and would resume at 12:25 p.m (0725 GMT). The situation was under control, it …
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