By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Canberra wanted deeper ties with its Pacific neighbour Solomon Islands and a region where decisions are made “without fear”, as China also sent its envoy to Honiara to meet new Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele. Australia is the Solomon Islands biggest development partner, and …
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By Navesh Chitrakar and Yubaraj Sharma TAAP, Nepal (Reuters) – Aita Prasad Gurung dangled off a cliff in Nepal, carefully manipulating a long pole with a blade at its end to cut away chunks of honeycomb after Himalayan bees fled the fumes from a fire set to drive them from their homes. The 40-year-old wore …
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By Rishika Sadam, Sarita Chaganti Singh and Manoj Kumar HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s National Democratic Alliance (NDA) formally named him on Wednesday to lead a new coalition government for a third straight term, a day after it regained power with a surprisingly slim majority. Modi, a populist who has dominated Indian …
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By Jonathan Landay and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. and other “Five Eyes” countries on Wednesday warned that China has been circumventing measures aimed at halting its recruitment of current and former Western military pilots and other personnel to train the Chinese military. “Western recruits who train the PLA (Peoples Liberation Army) may …
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Wednesday described comments by U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen that Washington would not tolerate China increasing its exports of “dual-use” goods to Russia, and would respond with sanctions, as “blackmail”. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Washington’s tone was completely unacceptable and that Moscow stood in solidarity …
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(Reuters) -Ukraine’s first deputy foreign minister visited China on Wednesday and urged it to send a delegation to a planned summit on Ukraine this month in Switzerland, in the apparent hope it was still possible to persuade China to attend. Russia has not been invited to participate in the June 15-16 meeting. Beijing has so …
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(Reuters) – Toyota Alabama said on Wednesday it was investing $282 million in Huntsville, Alabama to add new production lines, which will generate around 350 new jobs. This brings the total investment in Toyota Alabama to more than $1.7 billion, the automaker said. (Reporting by Pratyush Thakur in Bengaluru; Editing by Shilpi Majumdar)
By Hyun Young Yi and Hyunsu Yim PAJU, South Korea (Reuters) – When North Korea sent hundreds of balloons carrying trash over the border to South Korea last week, the move sparked emergency alerts and round-the-clock media coverage in its neighbour. But while many South Koreans likely did not linger for too long on the …
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By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Irene Wang TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese champion runner Tomomi Bitoh completed a 170-km (106-mile) race in the Himalayas last November, and immediately made a beeline for a Tokyo clinic to begin freezing her eggs, hoping to keep alive her dream of becoming a mother. The 33-year-old former childcare worker is one of …
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By Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) – The Pacific island nation of Palau expects China to attempt to meddle in a national election later this year over its recognition of Taiwan, President Surangel Whipps Jr. said in an interview with Reuters. His support of Palau’s recognition of Taiwan as a sovereign state makes him “the enemy” …
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