SEOUL (Reuters) – A combination of coronavirus border closure and an unusual pressure campaign by a South Korean government willing to deal with North Korea could destroy networks that defectors have long used to start a new life, say activist groups. FILE PHOTO: Former North Korean defectors who were soldiers …
Read More »‘We are a battlefield now’: in Southeast Asia, tensions between the United States and China erupt on social media
(Reuters) – Tensions between the United States and China over the South China Sea have erupted into a war of words on social media, in what analysts see as a change in US strategy amid a growing superpower rivalry in Southeast Asia. FILE PHOTO: Chinese and American flags fly in …
Read More »‘We are a battlefield now’: in Southeast Asia, tensions between the United States and China erupt on social media
(Reuters) – Tensions between the United States and China over the South China Sea have erupted into a war of words on social media, in what analysts see as a change in US strategy amid a growing superpower rivalry in Southeast Asia. FILE PHOTO: Chinese and American flags fly in …
Read More »Prayers for the dead as young Myanmar jade miners cried
(Reuters) – College student Saw Myint Tun traveled hundreds of miles from his home in February to work in the jade mines of northern Myanmar in search of gems that could transform his family’s modest fortune. Family members pray next to a coffin containing the body of a victim after …
Read More »Hydroxychloroquine COVID-19 Global Prevention Trial to Resume
LONDON (Reuters) – A global trial designed to test whether antimalarial drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine can prevent COVID-19 infection, will restart after being approved by British regulators. FILE PHOTO: A pharmacist shows a box of hydroxychloroquine at CHR Center Hospitalier Regional de la Citadelle amid coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Liège, …
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