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(Reuters) - Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has moved to home care from a hospital in the central city of Banska Bystrica, where he had been recovering from an assassination attempt, the hospital said on Friday.

(Reporting by Jason Hovet in Prague; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)

By Leika Kihara and Takahiko Wada

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan must steadily raise interest rates to guard against the risk of inflation accelerating well above its 2% target, said Takeo Hoshi, an academic with knowledge of the country's monetary policy.

Japan's wage-inflation dynamics are changing in ways unseen in the past with intensifying labour shortages pushing up labour costs and prodding more firms to hike prices, said... (continue reading...)

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Australia, Britain, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore have agreed to stage more complex military drills in the region this year involving drones, fifth-generation fighter planes and surveillance aircraft.

The announcement on Friday by defence ministers from members of the 53-year old Five Power Defence Arrangement (FPDA) on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue defence meeting in Singapore comes as the tempo of military... (continue reading...)

(Reuters) - Employees at several businesses in Russia's Tatarstan region and its administrative centre of Kazan have been evacuated for safety reasons, Russian state news agencies reported on Friday, citing local officials.

Airports in the cities of Kazan and Nizhnekamsk in the same region have also imposed temporary flight restrictions for safety reasons, a representative for Rosaviatsia, the country's aviation regulator, said on Telegram earlier on... (continue reading...)

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Traffic was suspended in Turkey's Bosphorus on Friday after a cargo ship had an engine failure during northbound transit through the strait that runs through Istanbul, shipping agent Tribeca said.

(Reporting by Ezgi Erkoyun; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)