SEOUL (Reuters) – A plane carrying Los Angeles Dodgers players including Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani touched down on Friday at Incheon International Airport in South Korea at around 2:30 p.m. (0530 GMT), news agency Yonhap reported. Ohtani and his team are visiting South Korea to play at games as part the MLB World Tour …
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By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea is poised to host the third Summit for Democracy next week, taking up a U.S.-led initiative aimed at discussing ways to stop democratic backsliding and erosion of rights and freedoms worldwide. Seoul has released few details about who will be participating, but U.S. Secretary of State Antony …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Some of India’s biggest companies, including Vedanta Ltd, Bharti Airtel, RPSG Group and Essel Mining were among the country’s top political funders over the last five years under a now-scrapped opaque political funding system, official data showed on Thursday. The information was made public by the Election Commission of India following an …
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean police raided the head office of Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) on Friday in connection with two Indonesian nationals accused of leaking technology related to a fighter jet project, a police official said. The two engineers are accused of breaching South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Act and leaking technology related to …
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By Hyun Young Yi and Daewoung Kim SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean researchers have grown beef cells in rice grains in what they say is a major step towards achieving a sustainable, affordable and environmentally friendly source of protein that could replace farmed cattle for meat. Professor Jinkee Hong of Yonsei University in Seoul, who …
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(Reuters) – China will host Davis Cup finals group stage matches for the first time in September, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) said on Thursday. The Hengqin International Tennis Center in Zhuhai will stage one of the four groups, with the other three will be held in Manchester, Valencia and Bologna from Sept. 10-15, the …
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By Sakura Murakami and Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -A high court in Japan on Thursday said the country’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, ruling on a matter that has divided lower levels of the judiciary and put the conservative government at odds with shifting public opinion. Japan is the only member of the Group …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 hit eastern Japan early on Friday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The epicentre of the earthquake was off the coast of Fukushima prefecture, where strong tremors were recorded, the agency said, adding that a tsunami warning had not been issued. There were no immediate …
(Reuters) – The parliament of Kyrgyzstan on Thursday adopted a bill styled on Russia’s “foreign agents” law that international observers fear will restrict the work of nongovernmental organisations and independent media in the Central Asian country. A European Union delegation and multiple Western embassies criticised the bill in a joint statement, saying its passage would …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan dispatched coast guard boats on Thursday to join a rescue mission at China’s request after a fishing vessel capsized near the Taiwan-controlled Kinmen islands, amid heightened tension in the sensitive Taiwan Strait. China claims democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory, over the island’s strong objections, and has stepped up military activities near …
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