MANILA (Reuters) -A landslide in a southern Philippines province killed at least six people and injured 31, burying homes and two buses carrying 27 passengers, disaster officials said on Wednesday. The landslide happened on Tuesday night outside a gold mining site in the town of Maco in the province of Davao de Oro, where the …
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By Diego Oré, Sarah Kinosian and Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – When El Salvador President Nayib Bukele published a private WhatsApp conversation with the top U.S. diplomat in the Central American country two years ago, he was sending a message of his own: I will not take orders from the United States. U.S. officials …
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By James Pearson and Anthony Deutsch THE HAGUE, Netherlands (Reuters) -Chinese state-backed cyber spies gained access to a Dutch military network last year, Dutch intelligence agencies said on Tuesday, calling it part of a trend of Chinese political espionage against the Netherlands and its allies. It is the first time the Netherlands has publicly attributed …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Freezing rain, snow and ice have snarled traffic in central, eastern and southern China as millions of people travel home ahead of the Spring Festival holiday in the blistering cold that has swept through parts of the country over the past week. Southern Hunan and central Hubei provinces bore the brunt of …
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By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh summoned neighbouring Myanmar’s ambassador on Tuesday to protest the escalating border violence that killed two people on the Bangladeshi side as fighting between Myanmar’s rebel forces and its junta regime intensifies. A Bangladeshi woman and a Rohingya man were killed and a child was injured when a mortar …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s financial officials expressed concerns to visiting U.S. Treasury officials about U.S. tariffs, investment restrictions and sanctions set up to “suppress” Chinese companies, the Chinese finance ministry said on Tuesday. Both sides had “in-depth, frank, pragmatic and constructive” exchanges on their macroeconomic situation and policy, and developing countries’ debt among other issues …
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By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Roughly 600 protesters on Tuesday marched to where New Zealand’s founding document was signed in the town of Waitangi, as official celebrations competed with protests against proposed government policies that threaten Indigenous rights. Demonstrators were protesting New Zealand’s centre-right coalition’s promises to undo policies that promoted the official use …
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By Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan goes to the polls on Thursday with the jailing of popular former prime minister Imran Khan, the winner of the last national election, dominating headlines despite an economic crisis and other woes threatening the nuclear-armed country. The South Asian nation of 241 million people is reeling from …
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BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) -China’s Coast Guard said it patrolled the waters of the Diaoyu Islands on Tuesday – territories in the East China Sea that are claimed by China, Japan and Taiwan. Japan’s Coast Guard issued a bulletin saying it was repeatedly urging the four Chinese vessels to leave “our territorial waters”. Japan calls them the …
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ASTANA (Reuters) – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev named his chief of staff, Olzhas Bektenov, prime minister on Tuesday, quickly securing approval from parliament which is dominated by the ruling Amanat party. Bektenov, 43, had served as the head of the state anti-corruption agency before becoming the head of the presidential administration in April 2023. His …
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