By Hyonhee Shin and Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) -Lee Sun-kyun, a South Korean actor who drew global attention with his performance as the wealthy patriarch in the Oscar-winning film “Parasite”, was found dead on Wednesday in an apparent suicide in a Seoul park, officials in the capital said. Lee, 48, who met a gory end …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s foreign ministry said it had sanctioned Kharon, a U.S. firm founded by former Treasury Department officials that provides data to companies on alleged forced labour in the Xinjiang region to help them comply with U.S. laws. The foreign ministry said on Tuesday it would take “countermeasures” against Kharon and its director …
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By Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) – China – grappling with one of its coldest Decembers on record – will likely have to brace for another round of scorching heat and an increase in extreme weather next year due to the El Nino weather phenomenon, a senior climate expert said. This year has seen China lurch …
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By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) – As Taiwan’s election approaches next month, it is not only fraught ties with China competing for electors’ attention. The candidates are exchanging blows over everything from property disputes to whether drinking whisky is out of touch, in a raucous and freewheeling display of the island’s democracy. Taiwan’s Jan. 13 …
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(Reuters) – Canada’s government is willing to sign off on multimillion-dollar settlement packages for Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig to compensate them for the near three years they were incarcerated in Chinese prisons, the Globe and Mail reported on Tuesday, citing government sources. Federal lawyers are in compensation talks with the two men, who …
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By Jonathan Landay and Charlotte Greenfield WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan’s huge deportation drive has forcibly repatriated scores of Afghans awaiting resettlement in the United States, an advocacy group and Afghan applicants say, adding that Pakistani authorities often ignored U.S. embassy letters of protection. That complicates the efforts of such Afghans, as the U.S. has shuttered its …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – President Xi Jinping vowed on Tuesday to resolutely prevent anyone from “splitting Taiwan from China in any way”, the official Xinhua news agency reported, a little more than two weeks before Taiwan elects a new leader. China views democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory, despite the strong objections of the government in …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s economy ministry said on Tuesday it had expanded a list of sanctioned goods for Russia and its ally Belarus in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to prevent Taiwanese high-tech goods from being used for military purposes. Taiwan has condemned Russia’s attack and already joined the Western-led sanctions effort, though it …
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BAKU (Reuters) – Azerbaijan’s foreign ministry has declared two employees of France’s embassy persona non grata over “conduct that is not compatible with their diplomatic status”, it said on Tuesday. The ministry said it had summoned the French ambassador to complain, without providing any details of the incident which prompted the move. (Reporting by Nailia …
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian defence minister and presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto cemented his lead in the polls after candidates took part in televised debates ahead of the looming Feb. 14. A Dec. 23-24 poll released by Indikator Politik Indonesia on Tuesday showed that Prabowo, who is running with President Joko Widodo’s 36-year-old son Gibran Rakabuming …
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