By Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK (Reuters) -Vetoon Phoome’s family feared the Thai farm worker had been killed by Hamas in last month’s attack on Israel, until they found out on Saturday he had been freed along with other Thai hostages in Gaza. “He told me not to cry, to tell mother I’m coming back,” Vetoon’s sister, …
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By Charlotte Greenfield ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -A fire tore through a shopping mall in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Saturday, killing 10 people. Geo News said the blaze started early in the morning at the multi-storey RJ shopping mall in Pakistan’s most populous city. Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab Siddiqui said in a post on …
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin said on Saturday he aimed to contest the presidency of his party during internal elections next year, a day after vowing to step down from the post. Muhyiddin had said it was time to pass the leadership of his Bersatu party to a new team, …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan detected the first case of highly pathogenic H5-type bird flu this season at a poultry farm in the south of the country, public broadcaster NHK reported on Saturday. The local government in Saga prefecture will cull about 40,000 birds on the farm, NHK said, citing agriculture ministry officials it did not …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected photos taken by the country’s new spy satellite of “major target regions”, including the South Korean capital of Seoul and cities that host U.S. military bases, state media said on Saturday. Nuclear-armed North Korea launched the satellite on Tuesday, but South Korean defence officials and analysts …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – President Joko Widodo has suspended the chief of Indonesia’s anti-graft agency, his aide said on Saturday, following an accusation of extortion in an investigation that has ensnared a former minister. The step came after police this week named the official, Firli Bahuri, as a suspect accused of extorting money from former agriculture …
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MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines and Australia began their first joint sea and air patrols in the South China Sea on Saturday, days after Manila took similar steps with the U.S. as Pacific nations warily eye an increasingly assertive China. The three-day exercises, announced by Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on social media, follow discussions …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -A court in China’s capital Beijing on Friday denied the appeal of Chinese-born Canadian pop star Kris Wu, who was sentenced to 13 years in prison for crimes including rape. The former member of K-pop group EXO returned to China in 2014, where he built a lucrative career. In 2017 Wu made his …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top diplomats of the United States, South Korea and Japan held a call on Friday to discuss North Korea’s recent launch of a spy satellite which they strongly condemned, the U.S. State Department said on Friday. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, South Korea Foreign Minister Park Jin …
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By Andrew Silver and Nicoco Chan SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China called for vigilance on Friday as a surge of respiratory illness hit schools and hospitals and the World Health Organization, which has asked the government for disease data, said no unusual or novel pathogens had been detected. China is grappling with a spike in respiratory illnesses …
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