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Gunmen kill 9 men after abduction in southwest Pakistan, say police

13 Apr 2024

By Saleem Ahmed QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) -Gunmen shot and killed nine men after abducting them from a bus in a troubled province in southwestern Pakistan bordering Afghanistan and Iran, officials said on Saturday. A separatist militant group, Baloch Liberation Army, claimed responsibility for the Friday night attack in Balochistan province in Pakistan’s southwest. In a …

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US Assistant Secretary of State Kritenbrink to visit China April 14-16

13 Apr 2024

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The top U.S. diplomat for East Asia will visit China starting on Sunday, the State Department said, just days after President Joe Biden held a summit with the leaders of Japan and the Philippines that focused on China’s aggressive moves in the South China Sea. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian …

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China’s top legislator meets North Korea’s Kim Jong Un on goodwill visit

13 Apr 2024

BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s top legislator Zhao Leji met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang on Saturday, expressing Beijing’s willingness to work with its counterparts to deepen trust and boost cooperation, Chinese state media said. Zhao, finishing a goodwill tour that began on Thursday, is the highest-ranking Chinese official to visit the North since …

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China natural disasters cost $3.3 billion in first quarter, government says

13 Apr 2024

BEIJING (Reuters) – Floods, droughts, an earthquake and freezing conditions in China caused direct economic losses of 23.76 billion yuan ($3.28 billion) in the first quarter, the government said on Saturday. The emergency management ministry cited damage from several cold spells, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, landslides in Yunnan province …

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Indonesia denies using air strikes in Papua region, where kidnapped NZ pilot is

13 Apr 2024

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s military on Saturday denied using air strikes in a remote, restive part of the country, after a video of a New Zealand pilot kidnapped by Papuan rebels featured him saying military actions had made his position unsafe. An armed faction of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB), led by Egianus …

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US, Japan, Philippines trilateral deal to change dynamic in South China Sea, Marcos says

13 Apr 2024

WASHINGTON/MANILA (Reuters) – A cooperation agreement by the Philippines, the United States and Japan will change the dynamic in the South China Sea and the region, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Friday, while seeking to assure China it was not a target. “I think the trilateral agreement is extremely important,” Marcos told a …

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China top legislator Zhao says Beijing, Pyongyang set on developing friendly relations, KCNA says

13 Apr 2024

SEOUL (Reuters) – China’s top legislator, Zhao Leji, said it is Beijing’s consistent strategic policy to defend and develop friendly relations between China and North Korea, North Korean state media KCNA said on Saturday. Zhao, who is also the third ranked official of China’s Communist Party, met with North Korean counterpart Choe Ryong Hae and …

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In US meeting, Philippines says it will assert South China Sea rights

12 Apr 2024

By David Brunnstrom and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Philippines is determined to assert its sovereign rights in the South China Sea, its foreign secretary said on Friday at a meeting with U.S. allies to show support for Manila over an increasingly fraught standoff with China in the strategic waterway. Speaking at the U.S. State …

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