By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was denied an open court trial on Tuesday, as ordered by a high court, after the government submitted reports citing threats to his life, his lawyer said. The special court hearing the case later said Khan’s trial on the charge of leaking state …
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By Mikhail Flores and Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippine government and the country’s communist rebels have agreed to restart peace negotiations after a six-year hiatus, with the aim of ending decades of armed strife, the two sides and facilitator Norway said on Tuesday. The bloody conflict between authorities and the New People’s Army (NPA), …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Another Sumatran Rhinoceros was born in an Indonesian sanctuary last week, the Environment Ministry said, the second birth of this critically endangered animal at the reserve this year. The black rhino, the smallest and hairiest of the species, was born last Saturday at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary (SRS) in Way Kambas National …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s cabinet on Tuesday approved a draft clean air act in a bid to reduce pollution, a government spokesperson said. The draft clean law will regulate activities that create pollution including factories, businesses, agriculture and transportation, spokesperson Kenika Oonjit told a press conference. (Reporting by Chayut Setboonsarng and Panarat Thepgumpanat; Editing by …
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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – China has urged Australia to notify it of navy movements in the contested South China Sea and East China Sea, with a senior Chinese official cautioning that a small incident between militaries could escalate and damage ties. Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese last week said a Chinese warship acted …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – President Xi Jinping has called for stronger rule of law related to foreign affairs given “external risks and challenges” as China opens up to the outside world, state media reported on Tuesday. Xi, speaking during a study session of the Communist’s Party’s powerful political bureau, said that to protect its overseas citizens …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations ambassadors of the United States and North Korea sparred at the Security Council on Monday over Pyongyang’s first spy satellite launch and the reasons for growing tensions in a rare, direct, public exchange between the adversaries. After a nearly six-year absence, North Korea again started sending …
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By Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) – A Beijing court on Monday began compensation hearings for the Chinese relatives of passengers on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which mysteriously disappeared over the Indian Ocean almost a decade ago, the plaintiffs said. Over 150 Chinese passengers were on the flight which vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur …
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By Andrew Silver SHANGHAI (Reuters) -The spike in respiratory illnesses that China is currently suffering is not as high as before the COVID-19 pandemic, a World Health Organisation official said, reiterating that no new or unusual pathogens had been found in the recent cases. Maria Van Kerkhove, acting director of the WHO’s department of epidemic …
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By Saurabh Sharma SILKYARA, India (Reuters) -Rescuers on Monday brought in “rat miners” to drill through a narrow pipe and help pull out 41 construction workers trapped in a tunnel in the Indian Himalayas for more than two weeks after high-powered machines failed, officials said. The men, low-wage workers from India’s poorest states, have been …
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