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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Pak Myong Ho held talks in Mongolia with his counterpart Amartuvshin Gombosuren on Monday, Mongolia’s foreign ministry said, marking a rare foreign trip by a diplomatic delegation from the isolated state. The trip comes as Pyongyang appears to be starting to expand diplomatic engagement after keeping …

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By Irene Wang HIROSHIMA (Reuters) – Half a world away from Hollywood, citizens in Hiroshima, Japan, reacted to the best picture win for “Oppenheimer”, the blockbuster that depicted the race to develop the atom bomb that devastated their city 78 years ago. The biopic about physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer took in seven Oscars at Sunday …

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By Andrew Silver SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China will increase the number of specialised teams tasked with responding to future infectious disease outbreaks by five to 25, its top health official has said. The country will also improve early warning and relevant regulatory or legal systems, according to Wang Hesheng, a director at the National Disease …

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By Colleen Howe, Laurie Chen and Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s National People’s Congress has discussed everything from Taiwan to technology, but observers say the key message – both in substance and style – has been clear: more control for President Xi Jinping and a deeper focus on national security. Nearly 3,000 delegates met …

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By Mubasher Bukhari and Nida Mehboob LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – Shabnam, a young woman in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, sells small packets of scrap meat to passersby to feed predatory birds, despite a recent crackdown on the practice which many people do as an offering to ward off adversity. The tradition of tossing …

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By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s former President Asif Ali Zardari won a second term on Saturday, supported by the ruling coalition in a vote by parliament and regional assemblies, the election presiding officer said. The role of president is largely ceremonial in Pakistan but Zardari is known as a master of reconciliation and …

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