By Hongji Kim and Daewoung Kim DEOKJEOK ISLAND, South Korea (Reuters) – Dreaming of making it big in baseball, teenage brothers An Seung-han and An Seung-young travelled hundreds of miles away from home to remote Deokjeok island, where the sport and their team, are now the closest thing they have to a family. The boys …
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By Sakura Murakami FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -A Japanese court on Tuesday found three former soldiers guilty of sexually assaulting a female colleague, in a victory for the victim whose battle for justice challenged taboos in a traditional, male-dominated society. The case of 24-year-old former Self-Defense Forces member Rina Gonoi relates to a 2021 incident during …
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By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s defence minister threatened on Wednesday to unleash a “hell of destruction” on neighbouring North Korea in retaliation for any reckless actions. The heightened rhetoric comes after North Korea said last month it would no longer abide by a military pact between the neighbours in 2018 that aimed …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – A court in Thailand sentenced an activist-turned-lawmaker to six years in prison on Wednesday for insulting the powerful monarchy and related offenses, over social media posts deemed defamatory of the crown. Rukchanok Srinok, 29, a parliamentarian with the progressive Move Forward Party, was found guilty over two posts made in 2020 on …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China said it found foreign geographic information software could be compromising confidential and sensitive data in key sectors including its military, and warned security departments to conduct in-depth checks to stem any further breaches. The Ministry of State Security said an extensive investigation found overseas geographic information system software was being used …
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By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. congressional committee issued an extensive list of bipartisan recommendations on Tuesday to reset America’s economic ties with China, setting out legislative goals for 2024 that it said would prevent the U.S. from becoming the “economic vassal” of its chief geopolitical rival. The proposals drew on a year …
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol laid a wreath at the Netherlands’ national monument in Amsterdam on Tuesday at the start of a two-day visit during which he also toured the headquarters of tech powerhouse ASML. Yoon’s state visit, in which he is meeting Dutch King Willem-Alexander and outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte, …
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By Kate Lamb and Ananda Teresia JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia’s three presidential hopefuls faced off in the country’s first election debate on Tuesday, with two candidates slamming a court decision that enabled the president’s eldest son to join the leading ticket. In the first of five televised debates ahead of next February’s elections, candidates faced questions …
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(Reuters) – A six-man suicide squad drove an explosive-laden truck into a military camp in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 23 soldiers, in the latest attack on security forces in the South Asian nation. Here are some other incidents of violence over recent years that have targeted security forces in the country. AUGUST, …
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By Francesco Guarascio, Khanh Vu and Phuong Nguyen HANOI (Reuters) -Communist-ruled China and Vietnam, at odds over claims in the South China Sea, agreed on Tuesday to boost ties and build a community with a “shared future”, three months after Hanoi upgraded its formal relations with the United States. On Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first …
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