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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Myanmar’s junta has invited the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to send observers for planned year-end elections, and the bloc will discuss the request during a regional summit later this month, Malaysia’s foreign ministry has said. The invitation to send election observers was extended to all ASEAN member states, the ministry …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The chair of the Federal Communications Commission said on Friday that major U.S. online retail websites have removed several million listings for prohibited Chinese electronics as part of a crackdown by the agency. FCC Chair Brendan Carr said in an interview that the items removed are either on a U.S. …

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By Jack Kim and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea appears to have staged a military parade in its capital Pyongyang to mark the 80th anniversary of the creation of its ruling Workers’ Party, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported on Friday. Yonhap attributed its report of the widely expected nighttime parade to an unnamed …

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By Saeed Shah ISLAMABAD/KABUL/NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Afghanistan’s Taliban government accused Pakistan on Friday of carrying out airstrikes on its territory and warned of “consequences” as Islamabad said it was taking action against militants. Eleven more Pakistani soldiers were killed on Friday in a clash with Islamist militants in the Tirah area close to the Afghan …

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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s Komeito quit the ruling coalition on Friday, dealing a blow to new Liberal Democratic Party leader Sanae Takaichi’s premiership bid and potentially to her party’s grip on power in the world’s fourth-largest economy.  TAKAICHI’S PM BID JUST GOT HARDER  The LDP-Komeito coalition had lost its combined majority in both houses of parliament …

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