PARIS (Reuters) – South Korea has reported eight cases of H5N6 bird flu on farms, prompting the culling of more than 500,000 poultry, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) reported on Tuesday. The outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, were detected between Dec. 5 and Dec. 11, in villages in …
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By Liz Lee, Qiaoyi Li and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) -A magnitude-6.2 earthquake struck one of China’s poorest regions just before midnight on Monday, killing at least 127 people, injuring hundreds and bringing down mud houses in remote villages that never stood a chance. Chinese state media arriving at the sixth commune of Dahe village, …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – An Australia court on Tuesday found a Melbourne man who held prominent positions in Chinese community associations guilty of planning an act of foreign interference, the first verdict of its kind under a law introduced in 2018. Police in Victoria state had charged Di Sanh Duong, a former member of the Liberal …
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By Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea, the United States and Japan said on Tuesday they have activated a new system to detect and assess North Korea’s missile launches in real-time. The announcement comes after North Korea said it had tested the isolated state’s newest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Monday to gauge the …
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DHAKA (Reuters) -Protesters in Bangladesh set a train ablaze on Tuesday, killing four people, among them a mother and child, amid a countrywide strike called by the opposition to press its demand for the government to resign ahead of next month’s general elections. It was the latest strife sparked by anti-government protests in which dozens …
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MANILA (Reuters) -Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said a “paradigm shift” was needed in how his country approaches the South China Sea issue, as diplomatic efforts with Beijing were headed “in a poor direction”. Marcos, in an interview with Mainichi Shimbun on Dec. 16, parts of which were shared with Philippine media on Monday, said …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen expressed condolences to China on Tuesday and offered her government’s help after an earthquake killed more than 100 people on the northern edge of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau. Tensions between Taipei and Beijing, which views the democratically governed island as its own territory, have soared in the past four years, …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol picked on Tuesday former vice foreign minister Cho Tae-yul as the country’s new foreign minister and national security advisor Cho Tae-yong as the new spy chief, Yoon’s office said. Both nominations come as tensions with North Korea have increased this year after Pyongyang launched a spy …
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By Soo-hyang Choi and Kantaro Komiya SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) – North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile on Monday that has a range to hit anywhere in the United States, said South Korea and Japan, marking its second launch in hours as Pyongyang condemned a U.S.-led show of force as “war” moves. The missile has a …
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By Liz Lee and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) -The cold weather sweeping China brought rare snowfall on Monday as far south as the province of Guangdong, while temperatures in the chilly north plunged to near historic lows for the month. In a week of unexpectedly frigid weather, temperatures have fallen to lows below zero in …
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