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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday raised concerns over China’s human rights issues in a meeting with senior Chinese official Liu Jianchao in Washington, the State Department said, adding they also discussed “maintaining peace and stability” in the Taiwan Strait. WHY IT IS IMPORTANT Senior U.S. and Chinese …

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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -A group of South Korean filmmakers, actors and industry officials, including “Parasite” director Bong Joon-ho, on Friday called for a probe into the handling by police and media of drug abuse allegations involving late actor Lee Sun-kyun. Lee, who shot to global fame with his performance as the wealthy patriarch …

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By Joey Roulette, Nivedita Bhattacharjee and Ryan Woo WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two U.S. setbacks this week in the race to the moon with China illustrate the risks of NASA’s plans to bet on a new strategy of relying heavily on private companies. Fresh delays in the U.S. space agency’s Artemis moon program and a propulsion …

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By Tim Kelly ABOARD JS OSUMI (Reuters) – Hikari Maruyama, Runa Kurosawa and Sawaka Nakano are part of an elite force: Japan’s Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade (ARDB), meant to lead assaults from the sea in a possible future war. They are also three of about 40 women in their 2,400-person unit. Living alongside a close-knit …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he will definitely one day visit the Southern Kuril Islands which are at the centre of a dispute with Japan that has lasted since World War Two. Soviet troops seized the four islands off Japan’s Hokkaido at the end of World War Two and they …

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By Greg Torode HONG KONG (Reuters) -Chinese state media warned on Friday that a report by a prominent U.S. think tank on the military uses of Chinese scientific research across the Indian Ocean gave “ammunition” to countries bent on concocting threats from China. The report this week by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International …

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