By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – Cooperation between the U.S. and China on methane is advancing, the deputy U.S. special envoy on climate change said on Tuesday, saying there was an opportunity for Beijing to slash emissions from its massive coal sector at little or no cost. Rick Duke, the climate envoy, told Reuters the …
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By James Pomfret and Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong lawmakers on Tuesday unanimously passed a new national security bill within two weeks of it being presented, fast-tracking a major piece of legislation that critics say further threatens the China-ruled city’s freedoms. The package, known as Article 23, punishes offences including treason, sabotage, sedition, …
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By Francesco Guarascio and Khanh Vu HANOI (Reuters) – Nga Trang has nearly stopped going out in the evening and forbids her kids to play outdoors after school because air pollution from burning trash gets worse in her neighbourhood in Hanoi in the late afternoon. A Hanoian by birth, Nga, 44, is one …
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(This March 18 story has been refiled to fix a typo in the headline) BANGKOK (Reuters) – Two tourists from New Zealand were being held in prison in Thailand for allegedly assaulting a police officer on the resort island of Phuket, Thai authorities said. An investigation was underway over allegations of assault against Hamish Art …
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By Greg Torode and Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s 90-seat legislature on Tuesday unanimously passed a new national security law just 11 days after it was tabled, despite concerns from Western governments that freedoms would be further undermined in the financial hub. WHAT DO THE NEW LAWS INVOLVE? The package, known as …
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By Laurie Chen, Yew Lun Tian and Guy Faulconbridge BEIJING/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to China in May for talks with Xi Jinping, in what could be the Kremlin chief’s first overseas trip of his new presidential term, according to five sources familiar with the matter. Western governments on Monday condemned …
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By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong on Tuesday passed its new national security law, a bill that broadens the definition of crimes including sabotage, sedition and state secrets, and stipulates tougher penalties of up to life imprisonment. The law comes on top of a 2020 security law imposed by China a year …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday that China was making “absurd claims” over Arunachal Pradesh, adding that the northeastern state which shares a border with China will always be an “integral and inalienable part of India”. China claims Arunachal Pradesh to be a part of southern Tibet. New Delhi rejects the claim, …
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By Felix Light TBILISI (Reuters) -Armenia could face a war with Azerbaijan if it does not compromise with Baku and return four Azerbaijani villages it has held since the early 1990s, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in a video published on Tuesday. Pashinyan was speaking during a meeting on Monday with residents of border areas …
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By Andrew Hay (Reuters) – A New Mexico jury on Monday found an Afghan asylum seeker guilty of murdering a Pakistani immigrant in one of three ambush-style shootings of Muslim men that terrified the Islamic community in the state’s largest city during the summer of 2022. Muhammad Syed, 53, faces life imprisonment for the first-degree …
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