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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell met China’s Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu in Washington on Thursday, a day after accusing China’s leadership of supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine and warning that Beijing could face further Western sanctions. State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel told a news briefing the meeting was …

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By Hyunsu Yim and Peter Henderson SEOUL (Reuters) -Entertainment group HYBE, home to K-pop group BTS, has asked a U.S. court to compel social media platform X to reveal the identity of a user it accuses of defamation and harassment, according to a court filing reviewed by Reuters. The application for a court order is …

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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan said on Thursday February’s national election was stolen from his party, describing it as the “biggest robbery of a public mandate”. Khan, speaking in the Supreme Court via video link from Adyala jail in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, said he was being held in solitary …

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By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea plans to make a Mars landing by 2045 and spend 100 trillion won ($72.6 billion) until then on space exploration, President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Thursday at the launch of the country’s first space agency. The Korea Aerospace Administration (KASA) will lead the country’s “space economy,” …

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By Xinghui Kok SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The fraught relationship between China and the United States is expected to loom over Asia’s top security meeting this week, as are the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and simmering South China Sea tensions. The Shangri-La Dialogue, which attracts top defence officials, senior military officers, diplomats, weapons makers and …

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By Laurie Chen and Ben Blanchard BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) – China’s military achieved its “expected goals” during two days of drills around Taiwan last week but is prepared for further action if provoked, a defence ministry spokesperson said on Thursday. China, which views democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory, staged two days of war games around …

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By Jessie Pang and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) – Fourteen Hong Kong pro-democracy activists were convicted on Thursday of conspiracy to commit subversion under a China-imposed security law, while two were acquitted in a landmark legal saga that began with their arrests in early 2021. The high-profile case has drawn international scrutiny and is …

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