By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – A U.S. judge in Florida on Thursday declined to block the state’s law barring citizens of China and other “countries of concern” from owning homes or land in the state. U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor in Tallahassee, Florida, said that because the ban is based on citizenship and not race …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt, Hyonhee Shin and Sakura Murakami WASHINGTON/SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) – When Yoon Suk Yeol this week commemorated his country’s 1945 independence from Japan, the South Korean president did not dwell on the brutal 35-year occupation his people endured under their neighbor. Instead, the 62-year-old leader, too young to remember the humiliations of Japanese rule, …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States slammed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the United Nations on Thursday for using “repression and cruelty” and totalitarian rule to unlawfully develop nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. “We cannot have peace without human rights,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, told …
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By Ju-min Park and Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea may launch an intercontinental ballistic missile or take other military action to protest a summit of the United States, South Korea and Japan, a South Korean lawmaker said on Thursday, citing the country’s intelligence agency. U.S. President Joe Biden will meet at Camp David …
By Pascal Rossignol and Abdul Saboor CALAIS, France (Reuters) – Idris, 22, was convinced he was going to die when the small boat he and dozens of other migrants were on began to sink in the Channel as he tried to reach England from France. It was only thinking of his parents back home, and …
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By Kiyoshi Takenaka, Akiko Okamoto and Tom Bateman IWAKI, Japan (Reuters) – Waves crashing on a Japanese beach lashed a man and a woman wearing waders and hats as they demonstrated the use of a blue bucket to scoop some of the liquid into large plastic containers to be taken away and tested for radiation. …
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By Hasnoor Hussain KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – A small private jet crashed into a motorbike and a car while attempting to land at an airport in the outskirts of Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, leaving at least 10 people dead, officials said on Thursday. A Beechcraft Model 390 (Premier 1) aircraft, a light private business jet, …
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By Ariba Shahid and Mubasher Bukhari KARACHI (Reuters) -Pakistan swore in a caretaker cabinet under interim Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar on Thursday, tasking it with running the country until fresh elections, which may be delayed beyond November as constituency boundaries are redrawn. The caretaker cabinet’s top job will be to lead Pakistan towards economic stabilisation, …
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By Mubasher Bukhari and Asif Shahzad LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) -Paramilitary troops have cordoned off a Christian settlement in eastern Pakistan where a Muslim mob vandalised and torched several churches and scores of houses after two men living there were accused of desecrating the Koran, police and witnesses said on Thursday. The attack took place in …
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By Xinghui Kok SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore’s police said they have seized S$1 billion ($734.32 million) in assets from a gang of foreigners laundering proceeds from organised crime, including plush bungalows in the most sought-after addresses, bundles of cash, luxury cars, jewellery, handbags and gold bars. In one of its biggest money-laundering cases, police said …
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