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By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Mori Building unveiled Tokyo’s tallest office tower on Tuesday, part of a sprawling business and residential complex that aims to capitalise on an investment boom in the world’s third-biggest economy. At 330 metres (1,082 feet), the Mori JP Tower anchoring the Azabudai Hills project is just slightly shorter …

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By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Landslides caused by heavy rain have killed at least one person, and blocked a major highway in Nepal this week, officials said on Tuesday, as the death toll from the annual monsoon rains nears 40. The rains, which lash the Himalayan nation from June to September, kill scores of …

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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia has delayed until next month a free trial launch of its $7.3 billion high-speed rail line, the consortium behind it said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of setbacks for the flagship, China-funded project. PT KCIC, a consortium of Indonesian and Chinese state companies behind the 142-kilometre (88-mile) railway connecting …

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BANGKOK (Reuters) – The son of Spanish actor Rodolfo Sancho Aguirre has been detained in Thailand in connection with the death and dismemberment of a Colombian man on the tourist island of Koh Phangan, Thai police told Reuters on Monday. Daniel Sancho Bronchal appeared before a court on Monday as police sought his continued detention …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden signed legislation on Monday implementing the U.S. and Taiwan’s “21st Century” trade initiative and issued a statement saying certain sections of the law “raise constitutional concerns.” Biden said he would treat those sections, which require transmission of trade deal drafts to Congress, as non-binding if they “impermissibly infringe …

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By James Pearson and Christopher Bing LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An elite group of North Korean hackers secretly breached computer networks at a major Russian missile developer for at least five months last year, according to technical evidence reviewed by Reuters and analysis by security researchers. Reuters found cyber-espionage teams linked to the North Korean government, …

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By Kanishka Singh and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The arrest of Imran Khan is Pakistan’s “internal matter”, a U.S. State Department spokesman said on Monday, declining to take a position on the legal troubles of the former prime minister and frequent U.S. critic. Police arrested Khan in Lahore on Saturday after a court sentenced …

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By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) -Bangladesh will tone down its Digital Security Act, criticised by many as a draconian curb on dissent, to allow bail for suspects and halt the jailing of journalists for defamation, the law minister said on Monday. Journalists and rights activists have long demanded the repeal of the act to protect …

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By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – The prison selected by the government to detain former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, convicted of graft, is a lowly and distant facility that houses hardened criminals and does not have facilities that political prisoners are entitled to, his party and lawyers said on Monday. It is a …

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