HANOI (Reuters) -Two Vietnamese air force pilots parachuted to safety before their twin-seat military plane crashed in the province of Binh Dinh during a landing attempt in difficult weather on Wednesday, state media said. The landing gear of the Russian-made Yak-130 light combat training aircraft could not be deployed, forcing the pilots to escape by …
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By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR (Reuters) – Newly-elected lawmakers in India’s Jammu and Kashmir territory passed a resolution on Wednesday demanding New Delhi restore the partial autonomy of the Himalayan region, a contentious move Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is likely to reject. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government revoked Jammu and Kashmir’s partial autonomy in …
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By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE (Reuters) -Pakistan’s province of Punjab set up a “smog war room” to tackle severe pollution, officials said, as poor air quality turned its capital of Lahore into the world’s most polluted city and forced the closure of some educational institutions. Live rankings by Swiss group IQAir gave Lahore a pollution index …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – A former employee working for one of China’s state agencies has been given a rare death sentence for leaking “state secrets,” the Ministry of State Security said on Wednesday, after he was accused of handing over his USB drive to foreign spy agencies. The case underscores China’s intense crackdown on espionage …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – The Indonesian government plans to permanently relocate thousands of residents after a series of eruptions of Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano which killed nine people and damaged thousands of houses, officials said. Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki, located on Flores Island in East Nusa Tenggara province, erupted on Sunday night, followed by smaller eruptions on …
By Xinghui Kok SINGAPORE (Reuters) – India expects “policy continuity” with the United States no matter what the result is in the U.S. presidential election, the country’s chief economic adviser told Reuters. India’s Chief Economic Adviser V. Anantha Nageswaran was speaking to Reuters in Singapore just as Republican Donald Trump declared victory in Tuesday’s election. …
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By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) – Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world’s dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, has risen by a fifth in the second full year since the Taliban banned it but remains a fraction of pre-ban levels, a U.N. report said on Wednesday. The Taliban’s supreme spiritual leader …
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(Reuters) – North Korean troops have engaged in clashes against Ukrainian forces that are fighting in the Russian Kursk region, the New York Times reported late on Tuesday, citing an unnamed senior U.S. official and an unnamed senior Ukrainian official. The engagement was limited, the Ukrainian official told the newspaper and likely meant to probe …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) -The United States will continue its friendly approach towards Taiwan after the presidential election and Taiwan will work to prevent China “making trouble” during the transition, a senior Taiwanese security official said on Wednesday. Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for the U.S. presidency and neck and neck in the polls with Democrat Vice …
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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – The head of Australia’s national intelligence office said an “emerging axis” of countries providing support to Russia, including China, Iran and North Korea, was “a profoundly troubling strategic development” that western countries were struggling to catch up with. Director-General of the Office of National Intelligence, Andrew Shearer, said on …
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