Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen will meet US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California rather than in Taipei, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, hours after Taipei warned a high-profile US vis
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Damage from the catastrophic earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria last month has been estimated at over $100 billion for Turkey alone, the United Nations said . "Already it is clear that just the
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US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, making an unannounced trip to Iraq nearly 20 years after the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, said Washington was committed to keeping its military pres
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Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said the capture of the eastern Ukrainian town of Bakhmut was key to launching a further offensive in the wider region. "This city is an important defensive hu
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Pakistan authorities moved to arrest opposition leader Imran Khan for not showing up to a court hearing and banned him from television, raising political tensions as the country struggles to shore up
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Japan will cease to exist if it can't slow a fall in its birth rate that threatens to wreck the social safety net and economy, according to an adviser to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. "If we go on li
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