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By David Brunnstrom and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The nature of the security threat posed by North Korea could change “drastically” in the coming decade as a result of its unprecedented cooperation with Russia, the White House’s senior director for arms control Pranay Vaddi said on Thursday. “What we’re seeing between Russia and North …

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BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will meet with China’s visiting Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday afternoon in the northeastern Brazilian city of Fortaleza, a presidential spokesperson said on Thursday. Wang, on a tour of African nations, Brazil and Jamaica, is in Brasilia for two days of meetings at the …

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By Xinghui Kok SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Singapore’s Transport Minister S. Iswaran was charged with 27 offences in a graft investigation, the anti-corruption agency said on Thursday, in one of the highest-profile cases involving a minister in the Asian financial hub in decades. In a resignation letter dated Tuesday but published by the prime minister’s office on …

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By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan aims to become the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon when it attempts a precision landing on Friday, in what would be a boost for a space programme that has suffered a wave of setbacks and been eclipsed by rival China. Dubbed the “moon sniper”, …

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By Kate Lamb and Ananda Teresia JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has a commanding lead but is stagnating in popularity just a few weeks out from next month’s election, an opinion poll showed on Thursday, raising the chance of a second-round runoff in June. The world’s third-largest democracy holds an election on …

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