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MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines is still seeking clarification from the Pentagon about a secret U.S. propaganda operation that aimed to cast doubt among Filipinos about Chinese vaccines at the height of the COVID pandemic, a foreign ministry official said on Tuesday. A Reuters investigation on June 14 detailed how the Pentagon ran a clandestine …

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – An Indian court on Tuesday extended a hold on a lower court’s order granting bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a graft case, leaving the key opposition leader in pre-trial detention. India’s federal financial crime-fighting agency arrested Kejriwal, a fierce critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in March on …

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By Andrew Silver SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Novo Nordisk’s hugely popular weight-loss drug Wegovy has been approved in China, it said on Tuesday, the world’s second-largest economy and the country estimated to have the highest number of overweight or obese people. Novo said in March it would initially target Chinese patients willing to pay out-of-pocket for …

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By Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippines is committed to working with China to develop “confidence building measures” to manage tensions in the South China Sea after last week’s clash that seriously injured a Filipino sailor, Manila’s foreign minister said on Tuesday. “We still believe it is the primacy of dialogue, and diplomacy should …

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MANILA (Reuters) – Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and his two sons plan to run for the country’s senate in 2025, Vice President Sara Duterte said on Tuesday. “All of them are raring to run,” Sara Duterte, the current Philippine vice president and daughter of the elder Duterte, told reporters. (Reporting by Neil Jerome Morales; …

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By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe landed on Tuesday in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, making the country the first to bring back samples from the moon’s far side. The reentry capsule touched down at 2:07 p.m. Beijing time (0607 GMT), according to state broadcaster CCTV, carrying lunar soil collected …

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By Jessie Pang and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) -Mitigation pleas for Hong Kong’s biggest ever national security trial against the city’s democratic opposition kicked off on Tuesday, in what is expected to be the final stage before sentencing that could see some defendants jailed for life. The 47 democrats were among those arrested in …

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