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Taiwan says detected 27 Chinese military aircraft in its air defence zone

19 Sep 2023

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s defence ministry said on Tuesday that in the past 24 hours it had detected 27 Chinese air force aircraft including fighter jets entering the island’s air defence identification zone, mostly flying to the waters southwest of Taiwan. Democratically governed Taiwan, which China views as its own territory, has complained in recent …

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IAEA, Japan agree on continuous safety review of Fukushima water

19 Sep 2023

TOKYO (Reuters) – The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) agreed with Japan on its continuous safety review of the discharge of treated water from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the IAEA said on Monday in New York. Japan started releasing treated radioactive water from Tokyo Electric Power’s Fukushima plant last month, sparking a …

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Pacific island countries to hold second summit next week with Biden

18 Sep 2023

By David Brunnstrom and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Pacific island countries will meet with President Joe Biden next week for a second summit with the United States, Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum Henry Puna and a senior State Department official said on Monday. Puna made the announcement at an event hosted by the Carnegie …

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FBI chief says China has bigger hacking program than the competition combined

18 Sep 2023

By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Beijing has a cyberespionage program so vast that it is bigger than all of its major competitors combined, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Wray told a conference on Monday. THE TAKE U.S. officials have been sounding the alarm about Chinese hackers for years. But even after decades of …

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Top US diplomat Blinken meets China’s VP Han at U.N. amid strained ties

18 Sep 2023

By Humeyra Pamuk and Michael Martina NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng on Monday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly as the world’s two largest economies hold a series of meetings to stabilize their strained relationship. White House national security adviser …

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China’s Wang Yi visits Russia ahead of possible Xi-Putin meeting

18 Sep 2023

BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, begins on Monday a four-day trip to Russia during which both nations are expected to pledge deeper mutual political trust, readying for a possible landmark visit by President Vladimir Putin to Beijing in October. Wang, who heads the foreign ministry as well as the ruling Communist Party’s foreign …

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Exclusive-Vietnam activists to seek US refuge after Biden administration deal -US officials

18 Sep 2023

By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two Vietnamese activists who the Biden administration believes were wrongly detained by the country’s Communist government are relocating to the United States under an agreement negotiated ahead of the president’s recent visit to Hanoi, U.S. officials told Reuters. A human rights lawyer who campaigned for accountability for police abuses, …

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Rifle, fur hat, drones: North Korea’s Kim returns with gifts from Russia

18 Sep 2023

(Refiles to fix typographical error in paragraph 17, no change in text) SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is heading home on Monday, most likely with gifts from his Russian hosts including a rifle, a cosmonaut’s glove, and military drones – which on their own are a violation of U.N. sanctions. Following are …

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Karabakh gets Red Cross aid via two routes, in step to ease crisis

18 Sep 2023

By Felix Light and Nailia Bagirova TBILISI (Reuters) -Badly needed food and medicines were delivered to Azerbaijan’s breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh on Monday along two roads simultaneously, a step that could ease mounting tension between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The International Committee of the Red Cross said it had sent trucks via the Lachin corridor leading …

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