ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Friday granted former Prime Minister Imran Khan bail in a case related to a leak of state secrets, but it was not clear how he could be released while serving a three-year sentence for corruption and facing other charges. The 71-year-old former cricket star has been embroiled in …
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KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan filed nomination papers for the 2024 national elections on Friday, local media Geo News reported. Khan filed his papers to contest a national assembly seat in his hometown Mianwali. (Reporting by Ariba Shahid in Karachi; Editing by Toby Chopra)
TASHKENT (Reuters) – Uzbekistan’s foreign ministry has summoned the Russian ambassador over a call by a Russian politician to annex the former Soviet republic, it said late on Thursday. Russian nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin, who is co-chair of the “A Just Russia – For Truth” party, said this week he believed Russia should annex Uzbekistan …
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By Leika Kihara and Kentaro Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan must avoid moving too hastily towards an exit from ultra-loose monetary policy to ensure the economy does not revert to deflation, veteran ruling party official Akira Amari told Reuters on Friday. With inflation above the BOJ’s 2% target for more than a …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan and Canada on Friday signed a bilateral investment deal, boosting the Taiwanese government’s efforts to bolster business ties with like-minded democratic partners and possibly easing the island’s entry into a major pan-Pacific trade pact. Self-ruled Taiwan has been seeking greater diplomatic and moral support from major Western democracies, such as Canada, as …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China will resume importing grouper fish from Taiwan from Friday, the Chinese government announced, a day after angering Taipei with the ending of tariff cuts on some chemical imports less than a month before Taiwanese elections. China put the grouper ban in place in June of last year saying it had detected banned …
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By Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) -After almost two weeks of below-freezing weather brought by a cold wave that swept through most of China, a round of warm air will begin to flow from the country’s north to south lifting temperatures from the weekend. Northern and northeastern parts of the country have experienced blizzards and record-breaking …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai lawmakers on Thursday overwhelmingly passed four draft bills on same-sex marriage in their first reading, moving the country closer towards its legalisation in a country with one of Asia’s most open and visible LGBT communities. Rights activists have said that Thailand’s laws and institutions still do not reflect changing social attitudes …
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KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) -Pakistani former prime minister Imran Khan remains disqualified from contesting elections after a court rejected his plea to suspend an earlier conviction on Thursday, his lawyer said. The decision came a day before the deadline to submit nomination papers for elections for provincial and national assemblies that are scheduled for Feb. 8. …
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PARIS (Reuters) – A French court of appeals on Thursday confirmed a Chilean man was guilty of murdering his Japanese ex-girlfriend in 2016 and upheld a 28-year prison sentence, French news agency AFP reported on Thursday. The verdict confirms a lower court ruling from last year against the now 33-year-old Nicolas Zepeda. In the appeal …
