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US aircraft carrier docks in South Korea after exercises
SEOUL (Reuters) - The U.S. aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan arrived in the South Korean port of Busan on Thursday for a five-day visit aimed at sending a message of deterrence to North Korea, South Kore...
Oct 12, 2023
UK orders diplomats’ families to leave Israel over security concerns
LONDON (Reuters) -The British government on Thursday ordered families of its diplomats in Israel to leave the country as a "precautionary measure" following attacks by the Palestinian Islamist group H...
Oct 12, 2023
Russia’s Putin visits Kyrgyzstan in first foreign trip since ICC arrest warrant
BISHKEK (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks in Kyrgyzstan on Thursday, a Central Asian nation with strong ties to Moscow, during what was his first foreign trip since the Internati...
Oct 12, 2023
Israel’s reservists drop everything and rush home following Hamas bloodshed
By Helen Coster and Alexander Cornwell NEW YORK/DUBAI (Reuters) - Some were on their honeymoon, others were studying abroad, many were building new lives in foreign countries. But when Israel called u...
Oct 12, 2023
UN experts say Israel’s strikes on Gaza amount to ‘collective punishment’
GENEVA (Reuters) -A group of independent United Nations experts on Thursday condemned violence against civilians in Israel and deplored the "collective punishment" of reprisal strikes against Gaza. Wh...
Oct 12, 2023
Births in China slide 10% to hit their lowest on record
BEIJING (Reuters) - The number of births in China tumbled 10% last year to hit their lowest level on record - a drop that comes despite a slew of government efforts to support parents and amid increas...
Oct 12, 2023
China says sends fighter jets to warn US Navy plane in Taiwan Strait
BEIJING (Reuters) -China said on Thursday it had sent fighter jets to monitor and warn a U.S. Navy patrol aircraft that flew through the Taiwan Strait. China claims sovereignty over democratically-gov...
Oct 12, 2023
Global water cycle ‘spinning out of balance’: UN meteorological agency
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Meteorological Organization said on Thursday that the hydrological cycle was increasingly out of balance due to climate change and made a call for a fundamental policy shi...
Oct 12, 2023
Release of journalist unlikely to shift Australia’s China policy
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) - The release of an Australian journalist after three years in a Chinese prison should improve the atmosphere for a visit by Australia's prime minister but won't shi...
Oct 12, 2023
China foreign ministry says no North Korean defectors in country
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Thursday there were no "so-called defectors" in China, in response to a question regarding a report saying China had deported North ...
Oct 12, 2023
