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China accuses Australia of covering up airspace intrusion in South China Sea

22 Oct 2025

BEIJING (Reuters) -Australia’s statements about an incident involving Chinese military aircraft over the South China Sea are an attempt to cover up an Australian “intrusion” into Chinese airspace, the Chinese defence ministry said on Wednesday. The ministry has complained to Canberra about the matter. The ministry was referring to an incident around the Paracel Islands …

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Japan’s Takaichi makes history, but women ask: what changes now?

22 Oct 2025

By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -Sanae Takaichi took office on Tuesday as Japan’s first female prime minister, but her surprisingly male-dominated cabinet and socially conservative track record have left some women ambivalent in a country that lags on gender equality. Takaichi on Tuesday appointed only two female ministers in a 19-member cabinet, matching her predecessor …

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Takaichi elected Japan’s premier, shattering glass ceiling with hard-right turn

22 Oct 2025

By Mariko Katsumura and Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) -Hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi was elected Japan’s first female prime minister on Tuesday, shattering a political glass ceiling for women and setting the country up for a decisive turn to the right.  An acolyte of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and an admirer of Britain’s Margaret Thatcher, …

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Earthquake of magnitude 5.1 strikes Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush region, EMSC says

21 Oct 2025

(Reuters) -A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush region on Tuesday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said. The quake was at a depth of 244 kilometers (152 miles), the EMSC said. Two Reuters witnesses said strong tremors were felt in Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul. (Reporting by Anusha Shah, Asif Shahzad; Editing by Chris …

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Azerbaijan lifts curbs on cargo transit to Armenia in sign of growing peace

21 Oct 2025

(Refiles with Hajiyev’s full title in paragraph 4) By Nailia Bagirova BAKU (Reuters) -Azerbaijan has removed all restrictions on cargo transit to Armenia, President Ilham Aliyev said on Tuesday, in a sign of warming ties between the former foes following nearly four decades of conflict. Aliyev told Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev at a meeting in …

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China holds event to commemorate Taiwan’s ‘retrocession’, Xinhua reports

21 Oct 2025

BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese state-controlled organisations held an event on Tuesday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Taiwan’s “retrocession” to Chinese rule, China’s state news agency Xinhua reported. October 25 marks the anniversary of Japan, which colonised Taiwan in 1895, handing the island to the Republic of China government in 1945. Both Taipei and Beijing refer …

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Indonesia to repatriate British death row prisoner on humanitarian grounds

21 Oct 2025

JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia and Britain agreed on Tuesday to repatriate a 69-year-old British woman who was on death row in the Southeast Asian country over drug-related offences, an Indonesian minister said. Lindsay Sandiford was sentenced to jail in 2013 for smuggling cocaine worth more than $2 million into the holiday island of Bali in Indonesia, …

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Austria deports first Afghan since Taliban seized power, says more to come

21 Oct 2025

VIENNA (Reuters) -Austria deported an Afghan national back to his home country on Tuesday for the first time since the Taliban seized power there four years ago, and the conservative-led coalition government in Vienna said that more would follow soon. The government has made fighting illegal immigration a top priority, apparently seeking to erode support …

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South Korea in talks with Japan to hold summit at APEC, Korea’s presidential office says

21 Oct 2025

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea is in working-level talks with Japan to hold a bilateral summit between the two countries, Kang Yu-jung, spokesperson for Korea’s presidential office, told a press briefing on Tuesday. The potential meeting could take place on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit scheduled for the end of October in South …

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Solomon Islands critic of China, Daniel Suidani, dies on eve of protest court ruling

21 Oct 2025

By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Daniel Suidani, a former school teacher turned Solomon Islands provincial leader who won international recognition for his defiance of China, has died in Honiara, his friends said on Tuesday. As premier of Malaita, Solomon Islands’ largest province, Suidani banned Chinese companies after the Pacific Island nation’s newly-elected Prime Minister Manasseh …

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