COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka presidential elections will be held between Sept. 17 and Oct. 16, the island nation’s Election Commission said on Thursday. (Reporting by Uditha Jayasinghe, writing by Tanvi Mehta; Editing by Tomasz Janowski)
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan will add large fin whales to its list of commercial whaling species, government spokesperson Yoshimasa Hayashi said on Thursday, five years after leaving an international body that regulates the commercial hunt of the marine mammals. Japan resumed commercial whaling in its territorial waters and exclusive economic zones in 2019, on withdrawing …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) -An evacuation was ordered for communities near a fire at a chemical storage tank terminal that killed one person in Thailand’s eastern Rayong province, as the blaze was likely to spread, the industry ministry said on Thursday. One person was confirmed dead and three hospitalised according to a statement from Siam Cement Group, …
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QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Gunmen shot and killed seven labourers near southwestern Pakistan’s Gwadar port early on Thursday, police said. Police official Mohsin Ali said the gunmen stormed into a house some 25 km (15 miles) east of the port city and shot and killed the labourers in their sleep. The port city is located …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China will send two warships to Cambodia and East Timor from the first half of May to mid-June, its defence ministry said, potentially further unnerving the United States over concerns about growing Chinese presence at a key Cambodian naval base. China will send its largest naval training ship Qijiguang along with a …
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By Zeba Siddiqui SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – U.S. officials confronted the Chinese government in Beijing last month about a sweeping cyber espionage campaign through which Chinese hackers have broken in to dozens of American critical infrastructure organizations, a senior U.S. cyber official said. Under the campaign named Volt Typhoon, American officials say China aims to …
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By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong’s Court of Appeal on Wednesday granted an application by the government to ban a protest anthem called “Glory to Hong Kong”, overturning a lower court judgment that had rejected such a ban because of its possible “chilling effects” on free speech. The ruling comes amid what critics …
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By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL (Reuters) -Three Taliban security personnel were killed when a motorcycle carrying an explosive device blew up near a military vehicle in northern Afghanistan being used in opium poppy eradication operations, an interior ministry spokesman said on Wednesday. Protests have roiled several districts in the northern province of Badakhshan, where farmers …
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore’s defence ministry said it was temporarily suspending training for its F-16 aircraft fleet after an F-16 crashed during a routine training on Wednesday. The ministry said the suspension was a safety precaution that would remain in place until investigations show it is safe to resume training. The pilot ejected from the …
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MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines’ military chief accused China of a “malign influence effort” on Wednesday, after a local newspaper reported a Filipino vice admiral had made a deal with Beijing to de-escalate tensions in the South China Sea. The Manila Times published what it said was a transcript of a phone conversation during which …
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