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By Chen Lin and Kanupriya Kapoor SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu told Asia’s top security summit on Sunday that conflict with the United States would be an “unbearable disaster” but that his country sought dialogue over confrontation. Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Li said the world was big enough for China and the U.S. to grow together – remarks made days after he refused to […]

(Reuters) -A 2-year-old girl was killed and 22 people injured, including five children, when a Russian missile struck near the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, the regional governor said on Sunday. “Overnight, the body of a girl who had just turned two was pulled from under the rubble of a house,” Serhiy Lysak wrote on the Telegram messaging channel. Seventeen people were being treated in hospital after the attack on […]

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea denounced on Sunday the U.N. Security Council for discussing its recent satellite launch in response to a “gangster-like U.S. request”, and it vowed to reject sanctions and take action to defend itself. The U.S. called for a UNSC meeting last week to discuss North Korea’s attempt to put its first spy satellite in orbit, which ended in failure with the booster and payload […]

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea denounced on Sunday the U.N. Security Council for discussing its recent satellite launch in response to a “gangster-like U.S. request”, and it vowed to reject sanctions and take action to defend itself. The U.S. called for a UNSC meeting last week to discuss North Korea’s attempt to put its first spy satellite in orbit, which ended in failure with the booster and payload […]

By Jatindra Dash MUMBAI (Reuters) – Rescuers and families searched through mangled train carriages on Sunday for more victims of India’s worst rail crash in more than two decades with signal failure emerging as the likely cause. At least 288 people were killed on Friday when a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one near the district of Balasore in the eastern state of Odisha. Five more […]

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Japan and South Korea have agreed to quickly resolve disputes over past military encounters that stand in the way of closer security cooperation, Japan’s defence minister said on Sunday at the Shangri-La Dialogue security conference in Singapore. Japan’s defence minister, Yasukazu Hamada, held talks with his South Korean counterpart, Lee Jong-sup, as part of the conference. “We discussed pending issues,” Hamada told reporters on Sunday after the […]

By Jatindra Dash MUMBAI (Reuters) – Rescuers and families searched through mangled train carriages on Sunday for more victims of India’s worst rail crash in more than two decades with signal failure emerging as the likely cause. At least 288 people were killed on Friday when a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one near the district of Balasore in the eastern state of Odisha. Five more […]

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Japan and South Korea have agreed to quickly resolve disputes over past military encounters that stand in the way of closer security cooperation, Japan’s defence minister said on Sunday at the Shangri-La Dialogue security conference in Singapore. Japan’s defence minister, Hirokazu Hamada, held talks with his South Korean counterpart, Lee Jong-sup, as part of the conference. “We discussed pending issues,” Hamada told reporters on Sunday after the […]

By Jatindra Dash MUMBAI (Reuters) – Rescuers and families searched through mangled train carriages on Sunday for more victims of India’s worst rail crash in more than two decades with signal failure emerging as the likely cause. At least 288 people were killed on Friday when a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one near the district of Balasore in the eastern state of Odisha. Five more […]