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Fire kills six newborns at baby hospital in India's capital May 26, 2024 01:43AM

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Six newborns have died in a fire at a baby care hospital in India's capital New Delhi, local authorities said on Sunday.

Television footage showed firefighters attempting to douse the fire which broke out late Saturday night and engulfed the hospital in the eastern part of the city.

The fire department told news agency ANI, in which Reuters owns a minority stake, that six more children were rescued and taken to a... (continue reading...)


Taiwan bar on frontline with China blends history into cocktails May 26, 2024 12:26AM

KINMEN, Taiwan (Reuters) - In Taiwan's Kinmen, less than an hour's boat ride from the Chinese cities of Xiamen and Quanzhou, bar owner Powei Lee draws crowds by blending the tiny island's battle-scared past into cocktails.

During the height of the Cold War, Chinese and Taiwanese forces regularly clashed over Kinmen - then mostly known in English as Quemoy - and other islets controlled by Taipei along China's coast.

While today Kinmen is a... (continue reading...)


Macron heads to Germany in first French presidential state visit in 24 years May 26, 2024 12:04AM

By Michel Rose and Sarah Marsh

PARIS/BERLIN (Reuters) - French President Emanuel Macron lands in Germany on Sunday for a three-day state visit followed by a bilateral cabinet meeting as the European Union's two biggest powers seek to show unity ahead of next month's EU parliamentary elections.

Macron's trip to the capital Berlin, Dresden in the east and Muenster in the west is the first French presidential state visit to Germany in 24... (continue reading...)


China's Li lands in Seoul for trilateral summit with South Korea, Japan May 25, 2024 11:31PM

SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Li Qiang has arrived in Seoul on Sunday for a trilateral summit with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts, their first three-way talks in more than four years.

The neighbours had agreed to hold a summit every year starting in 2008 to boost regional cooperation, but the initiative has been disrupted by bilateral feuds and the COVID-19 pandemic. Their last trilateral summit was in late 2019.

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After China drills, Taiwan president again offers talks May 25, 2024 11:10PM

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan President Lai Ching-te again offered talks with China on Sunday following two days of Chinese war games near the island, saying he looked forward to enhancing mutual understanding and reconciliation.

China, which views democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory, carried out the military drills on Thursday and Friday, saying it was "punishment" after Lai's inauguration speech on Monday which Beijing called another push... (continue reading...)


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