CAIRO (Reuters) – The Islamic State (IS) on Tuesday claimed responsibility for the attack on a passenger bus in Kabul, the group’s Telegram account said. At least seven people were killed in an explosion on a bus in western Kabul on Tuesday, a police spokesman said. (Reporting by Muhammad Al Gebaly, Omar Abdel-Razek, Moaz Abd-Alaziz; …
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(Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 struck Southern Xinjiang in China on Wednesday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of 26 kilometers (16.16 miles), EMSC said. The quake was originally pegged at 5.5 magnitude, with a depth of 8 kilometers (4.97 miles), but later downgraded to a magnitude of …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to meet with Indonesian President Joko Widodo as soon as Monday at the White House, a source familiar said on Tuesday. The White House did not respond to a request for comment. (Reporting by Trevor Hunnicut; writing by Paul Grant)
BEIJING/SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing on Tuesday, restarting an annual leaders’ dialogue that Albanese said will continue as relations between the trading partners stabilised. Albanese is in China on the first visit by an Australian leader in seven years, after a diplomatic dispute had put a …
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Malaysia has dropped a plan to draft a law aimed at stopping cross-border air pollution, its environment ministry said, citing difficulties in obtaining information for prosecutions. Almost every dry season, smoke from fires to clear land for palm oil and pulp and paper plantations in Indonesia blankets much of the region, leading …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Canada can provide critical minerals and energy to Japan, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said to her Japanese counterpart ahead of bilateral talks in Tokyo on Tuesday. “We believe your security is our security, and we believe also that we can provide you support in terms of energy and critical minerals which is …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday that the purpose of the Indonesia Hospital in Gaza was to “fully” serve Palestinians in response to an accusation by the Israeli military that it has been used by Hamas to launch attacks. Israeli military’s has said that Hamas “systematically exploits hospitals as part of its …
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By Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) – One of the few independently funded English-language publications to cover China in depth for Western audiences, “The China Project”, is to close because of a lack of funding, its editor-in-chief, Jeremy Goldkorn, wrote in a post. The China Project, which began as a newsletter in 2016 and was …
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Malaysia said on Tuesday it will not recognise unilateral sanctions in response to a proposed U.S. law to level sanctions against foreign supporters of Hamas and other militant groups operating in Palestine. The Hamas International Financing Prevention Act, aimed at cutting off international financing to the groups, was passed by the U.S. …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – A volunteer group which built the Indonesia hospital in Gaza on Monday denied an accusation by the Israeli military that its facility has been used by Hamas to launch an attack. The comments were in response to the Israeli military’s accusation that Hamas uses hospitals, including Gaza’s main hospital al-Shifa, the Qatari-funded …
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