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BEIJING (Reuters) – China has made stern representations to Japan over Prime Minister Fumio Kishida sending a ritual offering to the controversial Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Tuesday. Kishida sent a ritual offering to the shrine on Tuesday, Kyodo News reported. The shrine is seen in China and South Korea …

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By Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan’s defence ministry said on Tuesday it has not seen large-scale exercises or any other action by the Chinese military near the island after China condemned a brief U.S. visit by Taiwan Vice President William Lai. China on Sunday denounced Lai’s U.S. stopover on his way to Paraguay, saying that …

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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Tuesday that this week’s summit with the leaders of the United States and Japan will set a new milestone in trilateral cooperation in the face of North Korea’s evolving nuclear and missile threats. In a speech marking the anniversary of his …

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By Laurie Chen and Albee Zhang (Reuters) -China suspended publication of its youth jobless data on Tuesday, saying it needed to review the methodology behind the closely watched benchmark, which has hit record highs in one of many warning signs for the world’s second-largest economy. The decision announced shortly after the release of weaker-than-expected factory …

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TOKYO (Reuters) -Nearly 900 flights in Japan were cancelled and 240,000 people were ordered to move to safety as a slow-moving typhoon made landfall early on Tuesday, cutting off power to tens of thousands of homes. Typhoon Lan, approaching from the Pacific Ocean, made landfall at the southern tip of Wakayama prefecture, some 400 km …

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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – China opposes a planned United Nations Security Council meeting on human rights abuses in North Korea because it will only “intensify confrontation and antagonism,” a spokesperson for China’s U.N. mission in New York said on Monday. The United States, Albania and Japan requested the meeting, which will be …

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By Michael Erman NEW YORK (Reuters) -COVID infections and hospitalizations are on the rise in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Health officials are pointing at the EG.5 “Eris” coronavirus, a subvariant of the Omicron lineage that originally emerged November of 2021. WHAT IS THE NEW ‘ERIS’ VARIANT? The World Health Organization (WHO) classified EG.5, which …

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