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Tech talent in Asia Pacific see more challenges

Chinese tech giant Huawei has launched a five-year US$50 million budget to develop 500,000 information and communication technology (ICT) talents in the Asia Pacific region.

2 years ago
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With G20 presidency in hand, Jokowi turns focus to COP26

The President flew to Glasgow, Scotland, on Sunday evening after symbolically receiving the G20 presidency from Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi. Indonesia begins its year-long leadership role in December. ...

2 years ago
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Jokowi pushes G20 leaders to reduce vaccine inequality

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has encouraged global cooperation to address ongoing and future health crises and end global vaccine inequality at the Group of 20 summit, as Indonesia receives the year-long rotating presidency of the club, whose members consist of the world’s largest economies. ...

2 years ago

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Biden to have in-person meeting with India, Japan, Australia leaders on Sept 24

During the upcoming meeting at the White House, the leaders, including outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, will seek to advance cooperation in such areas as combating the coronavirus pandemic.

3 years ago
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Japan suspects Chinese submarine seen near territorial waters

Japan's navy on Friday morning identified a submerged vessel sailing northwest just outside territorial waters near Amami Oshima island, part of Kagoshima prefecture, the ministry said in a statement. A Chinese destroyer was also spotted in the vicinity.

3 years ago
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Fujian city imposes travel curbs, closes public venues in new COVID-19 outbreak

The virus situation in the city of Putian is "serious and complex" and it is very likely more new cases will emerge in communities, schools and factories, state broadcaster CCTV said on Monday.

3 years ago
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Taliban breaking promises including over women, says UN

Speaking before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Michelle Bachelet said she was "dismayed by the lack of inclusivity of the so-called caretaker cabinet, which includes no women and few non-Pashtuns."

3 years ago
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First foreign commercial flight since Taliban takeover lands in Kabul

Kabul airport was left trashed after foreign forces completed their chaotic withdrawal on August 30, evacuating more than 120,000 people from the country.

3 years ago
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Leftist coalition expected to win in Norwegian election

According to opinion polls, a clear majority is emerging to unseat Prime Minister Erna Solberg's centre-right government, which has ruled the Nordic country for the last eight years. 

3 years ago
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North Korea missile test poses 'threats' to neighbors: Pentagon

The missiles newly developed by the Academy of Defense Science traveled for about two hours and six minutes above the territorial land and waters of North Korea, hitting targets 1,500 kilometers away on Saturday and Sunday, according to KCNA.

3 years ago
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Boris scraps plan for vaccine passports

Johnson, under fire from some in his governing Conservative Party for raising taxes to fix a health and social care crisis, looks set to try to soothe those critics by ditching plans to introduce passports despite an increasing number of coronavirus cases.

3 years ago
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COVID-19 Pandemic slows for second week

The number of new daily cases around the world decreased by eight percent this week to 589,900, according to an AFP tally to Thursday.

3 years ago
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Bush calls out threat of domestic terrorism on 9/11 anniversary

"We have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our country can come, not only across borders, but from violence that gathers within," Bush said. "There is little cultural overlaps between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home ... they are children of the same foul spirit, and it is our continuing duty to confront them."

3 years ago
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Twenty years after 9/11, one of the last US Marines killed in Afghanistan comes home

Several hundred people gathered near the Farrah Funeral Home in Lawrence, Mass., where Rosario's remains arrived in a black hearse with a police motorcycle escort. Marines in dress uniform carried the casket into the funeral home, as veterans in the crowd, some of whom had not worn a uniform in years, snapped to attention.

3 years ago
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Biden, Xi talk to avoid US-China 'conflict'

During the call, Biden's message was that the United States wants to ensure "the dynamic remains competitive and that we don't have any situation in the future where we veer into unintended conflict," a senior US administration official told reporters.

3 years ago
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Divided, bruised US marks 9/11's 20th anniversary

A whole generation has grown up since the morning of September 11, 2001.

3 years ago
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Indonesia, Australia to elevate defense, security ties in Indo-Pacific push

Foreign and defense ministers of Indonesia and Australia met for their first in-person meeting since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, seeking to deepen their security links amid an increasingly contested Indo-Pacific environment.

3 years ago
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Two decades after 9/11, Saudi Arabia seeks softer image

Women can drive and cinemas have reopened in the "new" Saudi Arabia under crown prince and de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman, among many modernising reforms that some believe can be linked to the trauma of 9/11.

3 years ago
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China suspends approval for new online games as crackdown widens

The decision was revealed at a meeting between Chinese authorities and industry giants Tencent Holdings Ltd and NetEase Inc, the report said, adding that it was not clear until when the suspension would last.

3 years ago
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WHO calls on wealthy nations to suspend COVID-19 booster shots, again

In early August, the WHO director general had called for the suspension of the COVID-19 booster shots until the end of this month. But now he is seeking to extend the timeline for offering third shots, as the disparity in vaccine access for poorer countries has yet to be overcome.

3 years ago
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Time is running out to salvage Iran nuclear deal

The IAEA released a strongly-worded report Tuesday saying monitoring tasks in Iran have been "seriously undermined" after Tehran suspended some of the UN agency's inspections of its nuclear activities.

3 years ago
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Saudi Arabia welcomes release of classified 9/11 documents as Austin postpones visit

Its US embassy said in a statement that "any allegation that Saudi Arabia is complicit in the September 11 attacks is categorically false".

3 years ago
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Biden asks Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer to resign from military academy board

The 18 - six each on the Board of Visitors to the Air Force Academy, the Military Academy and the Naval Academy - were asked to resign, the White House said.

3 years ago
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China welcomes Taliban's formation of Afghanistan interim government

Beijing has said that the Taliban, an Islamist group that returned to power last month after being ousted by US-led forces in 2001, should set up a political structure that lays the foundation for lasting peace in Afghanistan.

3 years ago
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US expresses concern over new Taliban government, China ready to engage

A State Department spokesperson said in a statement on Tuesday that the US government reiterated “its clear expectation that the Taliban ensure that Afghan soil is not used to threaten any other countries and allow humanitarian access in support of the Afghan people."

3 years ago
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Taliban announce all-male interim government of Afghanistan

Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, who served as deputy prime minister in the previous Taliban-ruled government through 2001, will lead the new government as prime minister, while Sirajuddin Haqqani, the leader of the Haqqani Network, a militant group labeled by the United States as a terrorist group, was named as acting interior minister.

3 years ago
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Japan's Takaichi to seek party leadership, opening prospect of first female PM

Takaichi has the backing of former prime minister Shinzo Abe, local media said, and would base her challenge on policies to fend off China's technology threat and help strengthen an economy battered by the coronavirus pandemic.

3 years ago
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Civil society groups say COP26 should be postponed over COVID-19

Rising cases, unequal global vaccine rollout and stringent quarantine requirements for some 60 "red list" nations and territories hoping to attend the 12-day UN climate talks mean that "a safe, inclusive and just global climate conference is impossible," the Climate Action Network (CAN) said.

3 years ago
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Exhausted and abandoned: why Afghanistan's army collapsed

But senior officials in the former Afghan administration told AFP that the lightning victory was not entirely unexpected, and the consequence of fundamental leadership failures, rampant corruption, slick Taliban propaganda -- and a crushing "betrayal" by US-led forces with their hasty pullout.

3 years ago
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Blinken, Austin in Qatar to speed up Afghan evacuations

The top officials from President Joe Biden's security team began a meeting at the foreign ministry with their counterparts after a dinner on arrival Monday with Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani.

3 years ago
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India 'prepares for the worst' ahead of possible COVID-19 third wave

When Reuters visited the hospital on Friday, its last coronavirus patient was readying to leave after recovery - a remarkable turnaround health experts attribute to growing levels of immunity from natural infection and vaccinations.

3 years ago
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A curtain divides male, female students as Afghan universities reopen

What happens in universities and schools across the country will be closely watched by foreign powers for signs of what rights women will have now the Islamist militant movement is back in charge.

3 years ago
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Chilean health regulator approves Sinovac use among children over age 6

The South American country has already approved the use of the Pfizer Inc/BioNTech vaccine for children over 12, with 654,053 receiving at least one dose since May.

3 years ago

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