KARACHI/BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) – Pakistan’s foreign ministry said on Saturday it had summoned and handed a note of protest to Kyrgyzstan’s top diplomat in the country in response to violence against Pakistani students in Bishkek. Kyrgyz police said they had mobilised forces in the Central Asian nation’s capital on Friday to quell the violence, in …
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By Xinghui Kok SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore will resume flying its F-16 fleet after suspending training when one of the jets crashed earlier this month, the defence ministry on Saturday. The defence ministry said the May 8 crash was due to the plane’s pitch rate gyroscopes giving erroneous inputs to the flight control computer. “This …
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By Mohammad Yunus Yawar, Charlotte Greenfield and Ana Cantero KABUL/MADRID/DELHI (Reuters) -Three Spanish tourists were killed and at least one Spaniard was injured in an attack by gunmen in Afghanistan’s central Bamyan province, Spain’s foreign ministry said on Friday. Earlier on Friday, Taliban interior ministry spokesman Abdul Mateen Qaniee had said that three foreign tourists and …
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MANILA (Reuters) -Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Saturday the country will “vigorously defend what is ours”, in a thinly veiled reference to mounting tensions with China over maritime disputes. The conduct against intruders disrespecting Philippine territorial integrity will be guided by law and the responsibility as a rules-abiding member of the international community, …
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By Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s next president, Lai Ching-te, will pledge to secure stability by maintaining the status quo in the island’s relationship with China in his inauguration speech on Monday, an incoming senior security official said. Lai, who succeeds President Tsai Ing-wen after having been her vice president for the past four …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Leading German politicians, including Chancellor Olaf Scholz, will meet soon to decide on whether or not to force telecom operators to curb their use of equipment made by China’s Huawei and ZTE, people familiar with the matter said. The talks between Scholz, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser and Transport Minister Volker Wissing are …
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By Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered accelerated production to strengthen the country’s nuclear force more rapidly, on the same day he oversaw a test of tactical ballistic missiles with new guidance system, state media KCNA said on Saturday. While visiting an arms factory on Friday, Kim made the production …
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By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will push fellow G7 finance officials next week to agree to a plan to bring forward the interest earnings on frozen Russian assets to provide more money to Ukraine quickly, a senior U.S. Treasury official said on Friday. The official told reporters ahead of Yellen’s …
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By Ben Blanchard and Fabian Hamacher TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwanese lawmakers shoved, tackled and hit each other in parliament on Friday in a bitter dispute about reforms to the chamber, just days before President-elect Lai Ching-te takes office without a legislative majority. Even before votes started to be cast, some lawmakers screamed at and shoved …
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By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors on Thursday announced the arrests of an American woman and a Ukrainian man they say helped North Korea-linked IT workers posing as Americans to obtain remote-work jobs at hundreds of U.S. companies. The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said the elaborate scheme, aimed at generating revenue for North …
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