DOHA (Reuters) -U.S Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday that Taiwan should not be concerned about upcoming U.S.-China trade talks in Malaysia. “I don’t think you’re going to see some trade deal where, if what people are worried about is we’re going to get some trade deal or we’re going to get favorable …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) -Almost 150,000 people braved blustery rain in a boisterous and colourful celebration of LGBTQ+ equality in Taiwan on Saturday at east Asia’s largest Pride march, thronging the streets of the capital city Taipei. Taiwan legalised same-sex marriage in 2019 in a first for Asia and is a bastion of tolerance and liberalism in …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand’s Queen Mother Sirikit, who brought glamour and elegance to a postwar revival in the country’s monarchy and who, in later years, would occasionally wade into politics, has died aged 93, the Thai Royal Household Bureau said on Saturday. Sirikit had been out of the public eye since a stroke in 2012. The …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -A senior lawmaker from Germany’s Social Democrats, a junior partner in Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition government, called on Saturday for a change of China policy after Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul postponed a trip to Beijing. Wadephul, a member of Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), cancelled the trip on Friday after Beijing confirmed only …
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By Ariba Shahid KARACHI (Reuters) -Pakistan’s defence minister said on Saturday he believes Afghanistan wants peace but that failure to reach an agreement during talks in Istanbul would mean “open war,” days after both sides agreed to a ceasefire following deadly border clashes. The talks in Istanbul, which began on Saturday and are expected to …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China on Saturday reported a magnitude 5.5 earthquake in Jilin, a province that shares a border with North Korea, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The earthquake struck the Chinese city of Hunchun at 7:45 p.m. local time (1145 GMT), with the epicentre at a depth of 560 kilometres (348 miles), according to …
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By Rozanna Latiff and Danial Azhar KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Thailand’s prime minister will travel to Malaysia on Saturday to sign a ceasefire deal with Cambodia and meet with U.S. President Donald Trump, but will cut short his attendance at the ASEAN Summit there due to the death of the Thai Queen Mother Sirikit. Foreign ministers …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul will have a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday before a signing ceremony for a ceasefire deal with Cambodia, the government said in a statement. (Reporting by Orathai Sriring; Editing by John Mair)
HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam’s National Assembly, the country’s lawmaking body, confirmed on Saturday the appointments of two new deputy prime ministers and three ministers, state media reported. The additional deputy prime ministers include former minister of home affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra and former Communist Party chief of Gia Lai province Ho Quoc Dung, the Vietnam …
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HANOI (Reuters) -A landmark U.N. cybercrime treaty, aimed at tackling offences that cost the global economy trillions of dollars annually, is set to be signed in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi by around 60 countries over the weekend. The convention, which will take effect after it is ratified by 40 nations, is expected to streamline international cooperation …
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