BEIJING (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s president on Wednesday said debt relief for low-income countries should be part of the green transition and inaction on debt could pose an existential threat to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Speaking at a panel on greening the Belt and Road Initiative in Beijing, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said Sri Lanka’s …
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By Josh Smith and Guy Faulconbridge SEOUL/MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Pyongyang on Wednesday for meetings seen as setting the stage for a visit by President Vladimir Putin, who has stepped up cooperation with politically isolated North Korea. Lavrov’s two-day visit comes a month after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia’s ruling party on Wednesday said the running mate of its presidential candidate will be a well-respected, senior cabinet minister, as political heavyweights shore up alliances ahead of a deadline for registering for a 2024 election. The world’s third-largest democracy is set to vote in February to replace President Joko Widodo, or Jokowi …
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By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) – A man who was shot by Hong Kong police during mass pro-democracy protests in 2019 was sentenced to 47 months imprisonment by a district court on Wednesday on multiple charges, including rioting and perverting the course of justice. Tsang Chi-kin was sentenced to 40 months for rioting, and …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday it has lodged a diplomatic protest to China for the activities of Chinese ocean research ship “Xiangyanghong 18” within Japan’s exclusive economic zone in the East China Sea. Japan Coast Guard spotted the ship extending a wire-like object into the ocean about 129 kilometres northeast of …
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HANOI (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted an invitation from his Vietnamese counterpart to soon visit Vietnam as the two met on the sidelines of China’s Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, Vietnamese state media reported. Vietnam remains one of Russia’s closest partners in Asia, ties that were developed during the Soviet era, and Hanoi …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday that a strike on a hospital in Gaza that killed hundreds of Palestinians was a shockingly dehumanising crime and said that Israel should provide satellite imagery if it was not involved. Palestinian officials said an Israeli air strike hit the hospital while Israel blamed the blast at …
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By Felix Light TBILISI (Reuters) – Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Tuesday said he was ready to sign a peace deal with Azerbaijan by the end of the year, even as Baku accused Yerevan of undermining the process of normalising their relations. Russia’s state-run TASS news agency cited Pashinyan as telling the European Parliament …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A group of former top U.S. officials and U.S. resettlement organizations on Tuesday urged Pakistan to exempt from deportation to Afghanistan thousands of Afghan applicants for special U.S. visas or refugee relocation to the United States. Pakistan has set a Nov 1. deadline for all illegal immigrants, including hundreds of thousands of …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Chinese military aircraft have carried out risky or reckless maneuvers close to U.S. aircraft nearly 200 times since 2021, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, putting a figure on what the Pentagon has called China’s increasingly dangerous behavior in the skies. But despite the large number of risky intercepts, the official declined …
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