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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s losing presidential candidate Anies Baswedan has asked the Constitutional Court to order an election re-run that exclude President Joko Widodo’s son from the ticket, his lawyer Ari Yusuf Amir said on Thursday. The president’s son Gibran Rakabuming Raka was running with the winning ticket of Prabowo Subianto and the team of …

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(Reuters) – Global investors and Sri Lankan officials expect to start negotiations aimed at restructuring $12 billion in defaulted global bonds next week, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. A steering committee, comprising of bondholders, will begin talks as they weigh a proposal from the government to rework the overseas debt that has been in default …

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By Stanley Widianto and Stefanno Sulaiman JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia’s Prabowo Subianto pledged on Wednesday to be a president for all Indonesians after official results showed him sweeping last month’s election, even as rivals said they would mount legal challenges over the electoral process. The former special forces commander and current defence minister won the Feb. …

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By Kanishka Singh and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government recognizes Arunachal Pradesh as part of India and “strongly opposes” any unilateral attempts to advance territorial claims in the northeastern Indian state that shares a border with China, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday. WHY IT IS IMPORTANT Nuclear-armed neighbors China and …

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By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged world leaders on Wednesday to make a rules-based international order “work again” by standing up to Russian use of force. In a video address to a global conference hosted by South Korea, Zelenskiy – whose country was invaded by Russia in 2022 – said …

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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s poll body on Wednesday abruptly suspended a meeting to certify and announce the results of last month’s election, citing the need to “correct” a document. The poll body had earlier announced Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto as receiving the most votes in the Feb. 14 poll. (Reporting by Stanley Widianto; Editing by …

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By Francesco Guarascio and Khanh Vu HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam is seeking its third president in little more than a year after its ruling Communist Party on Wednesday forced the resignation of Vo Van Thuong, who was only elected last year after the sudden dismissal of his predecessor. With accumulated foreign direct investment higher than …

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