TAIPEI (Reuters) – US Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar arrived in Taiwan on Sunday as the top US official to visit in four decades, a trip condemned by China claiming the island as its own, Sino-US continues irritating relationships.
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KOZHIKODE, India (Reuters) – The death toll from an Indian passenger plane crash has risen to 18, while 16 people have been seriously injured, a senior government official said Saturday. The Air India Express plane, which repatriated Indians stranded in Dubai due to the coronavirus pandemic, overturned the runway of …
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PORT LOUIS (Reuters) – Fuel plays from a Japanese bulk carrier that ran aground on a reef in Mauritius two weeks ago, causing an ecological disaster that endangers corals, fish and other marine life around the island of the Indian Ocean, say officials and environmentalists. FILE PHOTO: A satellite image …
Read More »Qualcomm Lobbying US to Sell Chips for Huawei 5G Phones: WSJ
PHILO PHOTO: Qualcomm’s logo unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, 28 February 2017. REUTERS / Eric Gaillard (Reuters) – Chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. Lobbying US Government to Purchase Restrictions on Component Sales to Huawei Technologies Co. [HWT.UL], after the Chinese company was blacklisted by the United States, The Wall …
Read More »Russian city holds another anti-Kremlin protest over detained governor
People take part in an anti-Kremlin rally in support of former regional governor Sergei Furgal arrested on murder charges, in the far eastern city of Khabarovsk, Russia August 8, 2020. The poster reads: “I am / We are Sergei Furgal”. REUTERS / Evgenii Pereverzev MOSCOW (Reuters) – As many as …
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