By Asif Shahzad and Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A Pakistani high court on Tuesday suspended jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s sentence on corruption charges, but he will remain behind bars as a judge had already ordered his detention in another case. The 70-year-old former cricket star has been at the centre of …
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By David Shepardson BEIJING (Reuters) -U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said U.S. companies have complained to her that China has become “uninvestible,” pointing to fines, raids and other actions that have made it risky to do business in the world’s second-largest economy. The comments, made to reporters aboard a high-speed train as her delegation of …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India said on Tuesday that it had lodged a strong protest with China over a new map that lays claim to India’s territory, the latest irritant in testy ties between the Asian giants. The protest by New Delhi followed reports in the Indian media that Beijing had released an official “standard …
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Prosecutors on Wednesday told judges they were seeking a 12-year sentence for a former Pakistani cricketer who is being tried in absentia for urging people to murder Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders in 2018. The 37-year-old suspect, identified in court as ex-cricketer Khalid Latif who lives in Pakistan, is charged with incitement to …
DUBAI (Reuters) -Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi called on Japan on Tuesday to display its independence from Washington by releasing Tehran’s frozen assets amid U.S. sanctions – and then said the only blocked Iranian funds were being held in South Korea. “Japan should act independently from the U.S. by releasing our blocked funds,” Raisi said when …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan’s defence ministry warned on Tuesday of a possible “sharp increase” in military tensions after reporting renewed Chinese military activity including fighter jets crossing the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait. Democratically governed Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, has complained for three years of increased military pressure from Beijing, …
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By Ben Blanchard and Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) – Billionaire Foxconn founder Terry Gou’s decision to stand for Taiwan’s presidency has thrown a spanner in the works of a January election expected to return the ruling party for a third term at a time of soaring tensions with China. His wildcard entry as an independent …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Typhoon Saola, hundreds of miles from China’s coastline, forced provinces to enact emergency response measures on Tuesday and call fishing boats back to ports along the southeastern coast as gale force winds and gusts whipped across the South China Sea. Guangdong province issued a heightened emergency warning for strong winds coming from …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s government has widened public access to a 7 million rupiah ($458.87) subsidy to buy an electric motorcycle after a lack of uptake due to limited eligibility, as it aims for long-term mass adoption of electric vehicles (EVs). The Southeast Asian country of 270 million people, one of the world’s largest users …
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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan threatened on Tuesday to take China to the World Trade Organization to seek a reversal of Beijing’s ban on all of its seafood imports after the release of treated radioactive water from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi told reporters that Japan would take “necessary action …
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