PARIS (Reuters) -French police trying to restore order in the island territory of New Caledonia after days of deadly unrest have cleared dozens of barricades that had been blocking the main road linking the airport to the capital, Noumea, a senior official said on Sunday. Around 60 barricades that protesters had put up along the …
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KABUL (Reuters) – At least 47 people have died after continued heavy rain and flooding in northern Afghanistan, an official said on Sunday, a day after a similar number were killed in a central province. Shamsudden Mohammedi, head of the information department for Faryab province in the north, told Reuters at least 300 hundred houses …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British defence minister Grant Shapps said on Sunday he was very concerned about a recent strengthening of diplomatic relations between China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, saying it posed a threat to democracy. “I’m extremely concerned about this because, remember, these are two countries that do not believe in democracy,” Shapps …
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(Reuters) – A powerful armed ethnic group in Myanmar said on Sunday it had won control over a town in the western state of Rakhine after weeks of fighting, denying accusations it had targeted members of the Muslim-minority Rohingya during the offensive. Khine Thu Kha, a spokesman for the Arakan Army (AA), said its soldiers …
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(Reuters) – Lai Ching-te is inaugurated as Taiwan’s new president on Monday. Following is a list of some of the foreign leaders and dignitaries attending the ceremony. UNITED STATES Former White House economic adviser Brian Deese, one-time State Department official Richard Armitage, Brookings Institution Taiwan expert Richard Bush and Laura Rosenberger, who runs the nonprofit …
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By Phuong Nguyen, Khanh Vu and Francesco Guarascio HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam’s Communist Party has named police minister To Lam as the state president, the government said on Saturday, and also nominated a new head of the parliament in a major leadership reshuffle. Unprecedentedly for a one-party nation once known for its stable politics, two state …
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By Sakura Murakami and Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) – As Japan embarks on a major military build-up, it’s struggling to fill its ranks with the women that its forces need and its policymakers have pledged to recruit. Following a wave of sexual harassment cases, the number of women applying to join the Self-Defence Forces (SDF) …
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KABUL (Reuters) -At least 50 people are dead following a fresh bout of heavy rain and flooding in central Afghanistan, an official said on Saturday. Mawlawi Abdul Hai Zaeem, the head of the information department for the central Ghor province, told Reuters that there was no information about how many people were injured in the …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Cases of bird flu have been confirmed among wild fowl in western China, the agriculture ministry said on Saturday, as concerns grow over a U.S. outbreak infecting cattle herds. Two counties in Qinghai province confirmed 275 cases of H5 influenza among dead Pallas’s gull and other wild birds, China’s Ministry of Agriculture …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s agriculture minister is being investigated for suspected violations of law and discipline, the country’s anti-graft watchdog said on Saturday. Tang Renjian, 61, is under investigation for “serious violations of discipline and law” by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) and National Supervisory Commission, CCDI said on its website. The term is …
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