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New Japan PM Kishida confirms strong alliance with US in talks with Biden

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Published by Reuters By Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO (Reuters) -New Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Tuesday that he received a “strong” message from President Joe Biden about the United States’ commitment to defending the disputed East China Sea islets known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan. In phone talks on Tuesday morning that lasted […]

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In surprise move, new Japan PM to call Oct 31 election – NHK

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Published by Reuters By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s new prime minister, Fumio Kishida, exchanged fist bumps with lawmakers after he was formally elected by parliament on Monday, as public broadcaster NHK said he was set to dissolve the body next week and call an election for Oct 31. The surprise move, amid widespread expectations

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No more uncontrolled immigration: PM says Britain in period of adjustment

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Published by Reuters By Elizabeth Piper and Kylie MacLellan MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday he would not return to “uncontrolled immigration” to solve fuel, gas and Christmas food crises, suggesting such strains were part of a period of post-Brexit adjustment. At the start of his Conservative Party’s conference, Johnson

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‘Catastrophic’ California oil spill kills fish, damages wetlands

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Published by Reuters By Gene Blevins and Jonathan Allen HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (Reuters) -A large oil spill off the southern California coast left fish dead, birds mired in petroleum and wetlands contaminated, in what local officials called an environmental catastrophe. The U.S. Coast Guard, heading a clean-up response involving federal, state and city agencies, on

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Ex-Hong Kong leader CY Leung sold shares for HK$2.3 million during anti-corruption probe – report

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Published by Hong Kong Free Press Hong Kong’s then-leader Leung Chun-ying sold shares worth HK$2.3 million (£200,000) in a subsidiary of international property services firm DTZ in 2015, whilst he was being investigated by an anti-corruption watchdog over past dealings involving DTZ, according to a report. The previously undisclosed sale by the former chief executive

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Pandora Papers: Document dump allegedly links world leaders to secret wealth

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Published by Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A massive leak of financial documents was published by several major news organizations on Sunday that allegedly tie world leaders to secret stores of wealth, including King Abdullah of Jordan, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The dump of more than 11.9 million records,

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