JAKARTA (Reuters) – Some 170 ethnic Rohingya people arrived in Indonesia on Saturday, head of a provincial fishing community said, in the latest boat arrivals in recent weeks that have brought more than 1,000 from Myanmar’s Muslim minority to the country. When seas are calmer between November and April every year, members of the persecuted …
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(Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck the Bangladesh region on Saturday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), GFZ said. (Reporting by Maria Ponnezhath in Bengaluru; Editing by Lincoln Feast)
(Reuters) -A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried South Korea’s first spy satellite into orbit on Friday from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base, after North Korea successfully launched its own military reconnaissance satellite last month. The satellite was placed into orbit and a little over an hour after launch “successfully established communication with an overseas ground …
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By Napat Wesshasartar, Thomas Suen and Arton Pookasook KHON KAEN, Thailand (Reuters) -After he was released by Hamas from captivity in Gaza, Thai farm worker Natthaporn Onkaew, 26, described the experience as dying and being “reborn”. “I missed home so much … it’s something you’d never expect would happen to you,” he said, wearing a …
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WASHINGTON/TOKYO (Reuters) -The U.S. military unit which had a V-22 Osprey aircraft crash off the coast of Japan is not carrying out operations but other aircraft will continue to fly after undergoing safety checks, the Pentagon said on Friday, even as Tokyo has said it is concerned about continued Osprey flights. Japan, a key U.S. …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish police said on Friday they detained a Spaniard wanted by the United States for allegedly conspiring with a convicted American cryptocurrency researcher to help North Korea evade U.S. sanctions. The U.S. Department of Justice accused last year Alejandro Cao de Benos, who founded a pro-Pyongyang affinity organisation, of recruiting researcher Virgil …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland signed a $2.6 billion deal to buy more than 150 more South Korean K9 howitzers, Poland’s State Armament Agency said on Friday. Under the agreement with Hanwha Defence, Poland will acquire another six self-propelled K9 howitzers in 2025, and 146 self-propelled howitzers of the K9PL version in 2026-2027, the agency said. …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan will stop building new coal power plants that do not have emission reduction measures in place, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told the COP28 climate summit in Dubai on Friday. “In line with its pathway to net-zero, Japan will end new construction of domestic unabated coal power plants, while securing a stable …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said on Friday that his country has forged a plan with G7 governments and lenders for how it would use an agreed multi-billion dollar cash injection to reduce its coal use. He announced the launch of the so-called Resource Mobilisation Plan, a critical milestone in landing …
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By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – A new group is among the two political parties chosen by Bhutan’s people to contest its fourth free vote since democracy was established 15 years ago, while the outgoing ruling party was knocked out, the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) said on Friday. Nestled between China and India, Bhutan …
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