By Hyunsu Yim and Sebin Choi SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s National Assembly voted on Thursday to approve a bill backed by the ruling and opposition parties to launch a fresh investigation into a deadly Halloween crowd crush in the capital Seoul in 2022. An earlier bill, which was backed by the opposition-led parliament without the …
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By Kirsty Needham (Reuters) – Solomon Islands lawmakers selected Jeremiah Manele as their new prime minister on Thursday, elevating the former foreign minister who has pledged to continue the Pacific Island nation’s international policy that drew it closer to China. Manele won 31 votes to Opposition leader Matthew Wales’ 18 votes in the 50-seat parliament, …
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(This May 1 story has been refiled to say ‘new cities’ instead of ‘lower-tier cities’ in paragraph 13) By Sophie Yu and Alessandro Diviggiano (Reuters) – Travel by rail and car across China surged on Wednesday, the first day of a major public holiday, as consumers remained focused on keeping expenses down in a challenged …
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By Akiko Okamoto FUJI-KAWAGUCHIKO, Japan (Reuters) – Officials in a Japanese town are erecting a 2.5-meter (8.2 ft) high barrier to block a view of Mount Fuji and obstruct a photo spot that has been attracting so many visitors they have become a nuisance for locals. Visitors have been flocking to Fuji-Kawaguchiko town, about 50 …
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By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s foreign ministry on Thursday raised the terrorism alert level for five diplomatic offices in the region citing intelligence that North Korea may attempt to harm its officials. The five locations include Seoul’s embassies in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, as well as consulates in Vladivostok, Russia, and Shenyang, …
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By Greg Torode HONG KONG (Reuters) – A senior U.S. official on Thursday urged China and Russia to match declarations by the United States and others that only humans, and never artificial intelligence, would make decisions on deploying nuclear weapons. State Department arms control official Paul Dean told an online briefing that Washington had made …
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(Reuters) -A collapse of an expressway section in China’s Guangdong province caused vehicles to plunge and killed 36 people while injuring another 30, state media reported on Thursday, as millions in the country travel for the May Day holiday break. The collapse, triggered by heavy rain, occurred at around 2:10 a.m. on Wednesday on the …
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MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines summoned a Chinese diplomat on Thursday to protest Beijing’s use of water cannon against Filipino vessels at a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, describing it as harassment and “dangerous manoeuvres”. Its foreign ministry said the deputy chief of mission was summoned to hear the 20th protest made by …
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By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) – It will be hard for Taiwan to attend this year’s World Health Organization annual assembly, and it hopes more countries will support its presence, the island’s foreign minister said on Thursday after the United States pressed for an invite. Taiwan is excluded from most international organisations because of objections …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Hundreds residents of Indonesia’s Tagulandang island were waiting at the island’s port to be evacuated on Wednesday, footage from National Search and Rescue Agency showed, while grey smoke continued to erupt from Ruang volcano. Indonesia’s Ruang volcano erupted on Tuesday, spewing lava that prompted authorities to evacuate more than 12,000 people from …
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