By Sebin Choi and Minwoo Park SEOUL (Reuters) – An ostrich that escaped from a zoo in the South Korean town of Seongnam has been captured, local authorities said on Tuesday, after it spent an hour dodging vehicles in heavy traffic, surprising many drivers. Witnesses posted pictures and video of the male ostrich named Tadori …
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By Mushtaq Ali PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) -A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into a convoy of Chinese engineers working on a dam project in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing six people, police said, the third major attack on Chinese interests in the South Asian country in a week. The first two attacks targeted a Pakistan …
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By Mohammad Yunus Yawar, Mushtaq Ali and YP Rajesh KABUL/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) -Sanaullah Ghafari, the 29-year-old leader of the Afghan branch of Islamic State, has overseen its transformation into one of the most fearsome branches of the global Islamist network, capable of operations far from its bases in the borderlands of Afghanistan. Islamic State has …
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By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) – With camera traps and extensive DNA sweeps, Indonesian conservationists are hoping to find more evidence that the Javan tiger, a species declared extinct, actually still exists in the wild, an environment ministry official said on Tuesday. Researchers at the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) said in a DNA …
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By Saleem Ahmed QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Militants attacked a Pakistan naval airbase killing at least one paramilitary soldier while security forces killed all five of the assailants in retaliatory fire, officials said on Tuesday. Monday’s attack on the Turbat base in southwestern Pakistan was the second assault by ethnic Baloch militants on a military …
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By James Pomfret and Yew Lun Tian (Reuters) – The United States and Britain filed charges and imposed sanctions on a company and individuals tied to a Chinese state-backed hacking group named APT31 that they allege engaged in a sweeping cyber espionage campaign. This group was allegedly run by China’s Ministry of State Security and …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China on Tuesday urged the U.S. and Britain to stop politicising the issue of cybersecurity, slandering and smearing China and imposing unilateral sanctions on the country. “It is pure political manoeuvring for the United States and the United Kingdom to rehash the so-called cyberattacks carried out by China and to sanction Chinese individuals …
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By Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) -A former chief of China’s soccer association has been sentenced to life in prison for accepting more than $10 million in bribes, state media reported on Tuesday, following one of the biggest anti-corruption probes in the sport in years. The sentence handed down to Chen Xuyuan came in the wake …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s foreign ministry on Tuesday expressed “grave concerns” over China’s recent use of water cannons against Philippine ships, saying it stokes tension in the South China Sea and undermines a maritime order. The Philippines accused China’s coastguard of using water cannons on Saturday against a civilian boat supplying …
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MANILA (Reuters) – India supports the Philippines upholding its sovereignty and hopes to find new areas of cooperation including in defence and security, its foreign minister said on Tuesday. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar was speaking at a press conference during a visit to Manila. His Philippine counterpart Enrique Manalo said the two countries were exploring ways of …
