(Reuters) – The chief of the World Health Organization urged Beijing to offer more information on the origins of COVID-19 and is ready to send a second team to probe the matter, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. “We’re pressing China to give full access, and we are asking countries to raise it during their …
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(Reuters) – North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un will visit several food enterprises as part of his ongoing visit to Russia, Russia’s RIA news agency reported on Sunday. “He is interested in a wide range of issues,” RIA cited Russia’s ambassador to North Korea, Alexander Matsegora, as saying. “As far as I understand and as …
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By Humeyra Pamuk, Trevor Hunnicutt and Tim Kelly WASHINGTON/TOKYO (Reuters) – When a Reuters reporter asked a U.S. State Department spokesperson this week about a sarcastic social media post by the U.S. ambassador to Japan concerning China’s missing defense minister, the reply was appropriately diplomatic. The ambassador, Rahm Emanuel, has always spoken in “a colorful …
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VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected Russian nuclear-capable strategic bombers, hypersonic missiles and warships on Saturday, accompanied by President Vladimir Putin’s defence minister. A smiling Kim was greeted in Russia’s Knevichi airfield, about 50 km (30 miles) from the Pacific port city of Vladivostok, by Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, who saluted …
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By Marc Frank and Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) -United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday praised efforts to support the Global South in the international arena as he opened a summit of the G77 group of developing nations and China with host Cuba. The focus is the scientific and technological divide between rich and poor …
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By Greg Torode and Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) – General Li Shangfu, a veteran of China’s military modernisation drive, rose through the ranks to become defence minister this year. Within six months, he disappeared under the cloud of a corruption probe. Li grew to prominence under President Xi Jinping’s pursuit of military might during his …
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(This Sept. 14 story has been refiled to correct the spelling of ‘of’ in paragraph 16) (Reuters) – Defence Minister Li Shangfu, who has been missing from public view for more than two weeks, has been placed under investigation by Chinese authorities, according to 10 people familiar with the matter. The investigation into Li relates …
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By Rozanna Latiff and Danial Azhar KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -A string of dropped corruption cases in Malaysia has raised questions over Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s commitment to fighting graft, with lawmakers and analysts warning it could risk alienating voters, deepen divisions within the ruling coalition, and jeopardise his reform agenda. With his “reformasi” rallying cry, …
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By Thomas Suen and Chantha Lach ANGKOAL, Cambodia (Reuters) – For Ung Bun, a 39-year-old fisherman from Cambodia’s southern Kep province, the days when he would come home with plentiful catches of flower crabs appear to be long gone. Pulling in his net one recent morning, he found just one crustacean. Ung Bun dropped the …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean athletes have left Pyongyang for the Asian Games on Thursday that will take place in China, marking the first international, multisport event that North Korea has participated in since the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia. The Asian Games will take place in Hangzhou, China, from Sept. 23 to Oct. 8, …
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