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ASEAN special envoy meets Myanmar junta chief
(Reuters) - Myanmar's junta chief Min Aung Hlaing met with a special envoy from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), state media reported on Thursday as Laos takes over chairing the blo...
Thomson Reuters Jan 10, 2024
Factbox-National security trial of tycoon Jimmy Lai: what's happened so far
By Jessie Pang and Edward Cho (Reuters) - Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai is on trial accused of endangering China's national security. Lai, 76, has pleaded not guilty to t...
Thomson Reuters Jan 10, 2024
White House official to visit Beirut, seeking to ease Israel-Lebanon tensions
By Steve Holland and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior White House adviser Amos Hochstein is expected to visit Beirut on Thursday, a U.S. official said late on Wednesday, as part of U.S. ef...
Thomson Reuters Jan 10, 2024
Philippine lawmakers criticise television ad as bid to revise history
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine opposition lawmakers and rights activists have criticised a television advertisement as an effort to whitewash history after it blamed the country's economic woes on the ...
Thomson Reuters Jan 10, 2024
U.S. says fuel shipment to Philippines coordinated with authorities
MANILA (Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Manila confirmed on Thursday that the U.S. delivered fuel from one of its naval bases in Hawaii to a facility inside a former U.S. base in the Philippines in coo...
Thomson Reuters Jan 10, 2024
Takeaway from the Republican presidential debate in Iowa
By Tim Reid DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican rivals Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley jockeyed on Wednesday to emerge as the clear alternative to frontrunner Donald Trump just days before voting in ...
Thomson Reuters Jan 10, 2024
Australia monitoring situation in Papua New Guinea after day of looting, arson
By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called for calm in neighbouring Papua New Guinea on Thursday, a day after widespread looting and arson left buildings in ...
Thomson Reuters Jan 10, 2024
Top Biden aide meets senior Chinese official, discusses Taiwan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top White House official, Jon Finer, met on Wednesday with a senior Chinese official and the two discussed tensions over Taiwan and the South China Sea, the White House said. ...
Thomson Reuters Jan 10, 2024
China warns Taiwan ruling party presidential candidate over possible confrontation
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Taiwan Affairs Office said in a statement on Thursday it hopes the majority of Taiwanese recognise the 'extreme danger' of Taiwan's ruling party presidential candidate Lai ...
Thomson Reuters Jan 10, 2024
Malaysia anti-graft agency questions ex-PM Ismail in $150 million publicity spending probe
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's anti-graft investigators have questioned former prime minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob as part of a probe into possible misconduct involving some 700 million ringgit ($...
Thomson Reuters Jan 10, 2024

