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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s foreign ministry has warned Japan not join the newly announced Nuclear Consultative Group (NCG) between South Korea and the U.S. and said doing so would make the Northeast Asian region unstable. The group, announced during South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s state visit to the U.S. last month, will see the U.S. give Seoul more insight and say in its nuclear planning over any conflict […]

By Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) – Teresa Xu did not anticipate that five years after she was denied an egg-freezing treatment at a Beijing hospital for being unmarried, her subsequent lawsuit would be at the centre of a debate over reproductive rights in China. Xu, 35, first lodged the claim against the Beijing Obstetrics and Gynaecology Hospital in 2019, in a landmark case of a Chinese woman fighting for her […]

A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan The Federal Reserve’s willingness to end its interest rate rise campaign here hinges just a few high-frequency data points over the months ahead – and April’s inflation readout sits high on that list. With markets edgy about the U.S. debt ceiling standoff and ongoing ripples from the March regional banking blow out, the running assumption is […]

(Reuters) – Two Russian soldiers from Kamchatka in the far east have been sentenced to two and a half years each in prison for refusing to fight in Ukraine, human rights group OVD-Info said on Wednesday. In separate rulings, the men, identified in military court documents as Alexander Stepanov and Andrei Mikhailov, were found guilty of refusing orders to go into combat during wartime. Russian President Vladimir Putin amended the […]

TUNIS (Reuters) -A Tunisian security officer wounded in Tuesday’s shooting attack outside a synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba has died, TAP news agency reported on Wednesday citing hospital sources, bringing the death toll to six including the shooter. The attacker, a National Guard member, killed a colleague at a naval installation then travelled to the synagogue where an annual Jewish pilgrimage is taking place and opened fire on […]

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Cisco Systems will begin manufacturing from India in a move to diversify its global supply chain, Chief Executive Officer Chuck Robbins said on Wednesday, setting a target of $1 billion in domestic production and exports over next few years. Cisco, which sells a range of networking equipment and software to connect devices to the internet, did not reveal the investment size, but said it will support the […]

(Reuters) -Russian forces are planning to evacuate more than 3,000 workers from the town that serves the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, resulting in a “catastrophic lack” of personnel, Ukraine’s state-owned Energoatom company said on Wednesday. SANCTIONS DEBATE * European Union states hold a first discussion on Wednesday on proposed new sanctions over Russia’s war in Ukraine that would target Chinese and Iranian firms and allow export curbs on third […]

By Kate Lamb LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia (Reuters) – Southeast Asian leaders meeting in Indonesia called on Wednesday for an immediate end to violence in military-ruled Myanmar, in an effort to create a window for dialogue and the delivery of humanitarian aid as fighting intensifies. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit was expected to see wrangling over Myanmar’s bloody crisis, with patience wearing thin as its junta demonstrates no […]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Israeli military launched a strike against members of the Islamic Jihad armed group at a rocket launch site in Gaza, the army said on Wednesday, as witnesses reported explosions in the Khan Younis area in the southern part of the enclave. There were no immediate reports of casualties. The incident came a day after Israeli jets hit Gaza in a series of strikes the military said […]