By Jeanny Kao TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Sunday offered to provide China with “necessary assistance” to help it deal with a surge in COVID-19 cases, but said Chinese military activities near the island were not beneficial to peace and stability. In an abrupt change of policy, China last month began dismantling the …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday said a United Nations General Assembly vote asking the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to provide an opinion on Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories was “despicable.” “The Jewish people are not occupiers on their own land nor occupiers in our eternal capital Jerusalem and …
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CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela and Colombia will fully reopen their shared border on January 1 to allow passage of cargo and passenger transport via the cross-border Tienditas bridge, Colombia Migration said in a statement on Saturday. The South American countries already reopened in September their border crossing in the Tachira state, in western Venezuela, after …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will send a special envoy to attend this week’s funeral of former Pope Benedict, with her office saying it is a demonstration of the “deep friendship” between Taiwan and the Vatican, which has been courting China. Benedict, the first pontiff in 600 years to resign and a standard …
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By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Saturday focused a year-end report on the judiciary on the need for stepped up security for federal judges, amid a surge in threats and as the United States is embroiled in a bitter debate over abortion. Roberts’ nine-page annual report came …
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva met on Saturday with representatives of Russia and Ukraine ahead of his inauguration and called for an end to the war between the two countries. Lula, who will be sworn in on Sunday, said on Twitter he had separately met with the speaker of …
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By Joyce Lee and Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered the development of new intercontinental ballistic missiles and massive production of tactical nuclear weapons to counter threats from the United States and South Korea, state media said on Sunday. At a key meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party, Kim …
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By Sergiy Karazy and Nick Starkov KYIV (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that his only wish for all Ukrainians for 2023 was victory and resolved to stay the course while the country fights for it. “I want to wish all of us one thing – victory. And that’s the main thing. One wish …
By Stella Qiu and Stefaniia Bern (Reuters) -With fireworks planned in Paris, hopes for an end to war in Kyiv, and a return to post-COVID normality in Australia and China, Europe and Asia bid farewell to 2022. It was a year marked for many by the conflict in Ukraine, economic stresses and the effects of …
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