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Explainer-Nuclear testing: Why did it stop, why test and who has nuclear weapons?

30 Oct 2025 30 Oct 2025

By Guy Faulconbridge (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap of 33 years, minutes before beginning a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. How many nuclear weapons tests have there been, why were they stopped – and why would anyone start them …

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Taiwan ‘confident’ in US ties ahead of Trump-Xi meeting

30 Oct 2025 30 Oct 2025

TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan is “confident” in its relations with the U.S., Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung said on Thursday, ahead of a meeting between the U.S. and Chinese presidents where the issue of the island Beijing claims as its own could come up. Since taking office this year, U.S. President Donald Trump has vacillated on his …

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UK and Vietnam reach deal on curbing illegal migration

30 Oct 2025 30 Oct 2025

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain said on Wednesday it had agreed to a deal with Vietnam to curb illegal migration in what it described as the strongest Hanoi had ever agreed with another country. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, under pressure to reduce the number of undocumented migrants reaching Britain to help arrest his government’s plunge in …

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Indonesia investigates more free meal poisoning cases, after 700 students fall ill, official says

30 Oct 2025 30 Oct 2025

JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesian authorities are investigating food poisoning cases involving nearly 700 children in Yogyakarta province this week, after students ate meals prepared under President Prabowo Subianto’s key free school meal programme, an official said. The school meal programme, rolled out in January, was a major election campaign promise from Prabowo, but some 15,000 children …

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China plans to have a Pakistan astronaut on short-term missions

30 Oct 2025 30 Oct 2025

BEIJING (Reuters) -China has announced it will arrange for a Pakistan astronaut to perform short-term missions as part of China’s space station missions, state news agency Xinhua said on Thursday. The astronaut from Pakistan will train alongside Chinese astronauts, Xinhua said. (Reporting by Liz Lee and Qiaoyi Li; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)

India plans repatriation of 500 nationals who fled Myanmar scam centre

30 Oct 2025 30 Oct 2025

BANGKOK (Reuters) -India plans to send an airplane to repatriate some 500 of its nationals who fled from a military raid on a scam centre in Myanmar into Thailand, Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said on Wednesday. Starting last week, the Myanmar military has conducted a series of military operations against the KK Park cybercrime …

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US President Trump, New Zealand’s Luxon discuss ties in South Korea meeting

30 Oct 2025 30 Oct 2025

By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon had his first in-person meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump late on Wednesday in South Korea, ahead of a dinner hosted by South Korean President Lee Jae Myung. Trump landed in South Korea on the final leg of a trip through Asia on Wednesday, …

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Defunding US radio stations creating Tibet ‘void’, exile leader says

29 Oct 2025 29 Oct 2025

By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration’s move to defund Radio Free Asia and Voice of America is creating an information void in Chinese-ruled Tibet, the head of the Tibetan government in exile said on Wednesday, adding that he hoped the funding could be restored. Penpa Tsering told Washington’s National Press Club the U.S. …

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Six Pakistani soldiers, seven militants killed in clash near Afghan border, Pakistan military says

29 Oct 2025 29 Oct 2025

(Reuters) -Pakistan’s military said on Wednesday that six soldiers and seven militants were killed in a clash near the Afghan border in the Kurram district. (Reporting by Ariba Shahid; Editing by Aidan Lewis)

Kazakhstan lawmakers give preliminary approval to ban on LGBT ‘propaganda’

29 Oct 2025 29 Oct 2025

ASTANA (Reuters) -Kazakhstan moved a step closer on Wednesday to banning the spreading of what it calls LGBT “propaganda” online or in the media, with repeat offenders facing up to 10 days in prison. A working group of members of parliament approved amendments introducing the penalties for what it views as propaganda for non-traditional relationships …

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