(Reuters) – Islamic State claimed responsibility for a blast on Monday in Afghanistan’s Kabul, a statement on their Telegram channel said on Wednesday. A magnetic mine blast killed two people in Kabul near the Justice Ministry, the city’s police said on Monday. (Reporting by Yomna Ehab and Tala Ramadan)
By Charlotte Greenfield (Reuters) – The head of a Dubai-based conglomerate on Wednesday said Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities had stopped around 100 women from travelling to the United Arab Emirates where he was to sponsor their university education. Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor, founding chairman of Al Habtoor Group, said in a video posted on X social …
By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Wednesday expanded its sanctions against Myanmar to include foreign companies or individuals helping the country’s military junta to procure jet fuel that it uses to launch airstrikes on its own people, the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement. The Treasury was also adding to …
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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan is set to begin pumping more than a million tonnes of treated water from the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Aug. 24, a process that will take decades to complete. The water was distilled after being contaminated from contact with fuel rods at the reactor, destroyed in a 2011 earthquake. …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Two of the world’s few tropical glaciers in Indonesia are melting, their ice under threat to vanish by 2026 or sooner, as an El Nino weather pattern lengthens the dry season in the southeast Asian nation, its geophysics agency said on Wednesday. Indonesia, home to a third of the world’s rainforest after …
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By Yoshifumi Takemoto and Katya Golubkova TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan expects a “significant” impact from seafood import ban by Hong Kong and Macau due to the upcoming release of treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant, an official from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF). Japan is to start releasing more than 1 …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Family planning authorities in the historic Chinese city of Xian texted residents this week wishing them “sweet love, marriage and childbirth”, and to create “good fertility”, in a new move to boost the country’s flagging birthrate. The message was reported by local media, including on the official Weibo of China Newsweek, …
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By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s billionaire former leader Thaksin Shinawatra was hospitalised on his first night in prison after his historic return from self-exile, officials said on Wednesday, citing concern about his heart and blood pressure. The influential founder of Thailand’s populist Pheu Thai Party was transferred to a police …
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By Hyonhee Shin and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) -Sirens wailed on Wednesday as South Korea held its first nationwide air defence drills in six years to counter North Korea’s growing nuclear and missile threats, but many people appeared to ignore calls to seek shelter. The government has reintroduced the drills into the annual Ulchi civil …
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By Sakura Murakami and Tom Bateman TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan said on Tuesday it will start releasing into the sea more than 1 million metric tons of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant on Aug. 24, going ahead with a plan heavily criticised by China. The plan, approved two years ago …
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