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By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) – There are no talks with the Taliban to negotiate a peace settlement, Afghan anti-Taliban leader Ahmad Massoud said on Thursday, vowing to step up “guerrilla warfare” to bring the hardline Islamists to the negotiating table. Speaking in an interview in Paris, Massoud, the exiled leader of the National Resistance …

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By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – U.S. National Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Japanese police jointly warned multinational companies of China-linked hacker group BlackTech in a cybersecurity advisory late on Wednesday. The joint advisory, which also came from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and its Japanese counterpart, urged firms to review …

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HANOI (Reuters) -A Vietnamese court has sentenced an environmental activist to three years in prison on charges of tax fraud, just days after the government discussed protecting human rights with U.S. President Joe Biden during a state visit. Hoang Thi Minh Hong, director of an environmental advocacy group that she started in 2013 and ran …

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By Martin Quin Pollard HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) – Gaming superstar ‘Faker’ is one of a large number of male South Korean athletes at the Hangzhou Asian Games who, if they win gold, will enjoy the added bonus of being able to skip what is normally mandatory military service. All able-bodied South Korean men aged between …

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TAIPEI (Reuters) -China’s leadership knows that sabre rattling around Taiwan to force an outcome to its liking in elections does not work and Beijing is not likely to try such actions ahead of January’s presidential vote, the Taiwanese foreign minister said Thursday. China has never renounced the use of force to bring democratically governed Taiwan …

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By Carlos Garcia, Walid Berrazeg and Sarah Wu KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (Reuters) -Taiwan unveiled its first domestically developed submarine on Thursday, a major step in a project aimed at strengthening the island’s defence and deterrence against the Chinese navy, though it won’t enter service for another two years. Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, …

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BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s Communist Party has appointed Lan Foan as the new finance ministry party chief, the ministry said in a statement on Thursday. Lan will replace Liu Kun in that role, though Liu is still the finance minister – a post he has held since 2018. Lan, 61, was previously the party chief of …

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