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Bolsonaro fears worst as writer, expert go missing

  Bloomberg President Jair Bolsonaro said he fears the worst may have happened to a British journalist and an expert on indigenous peoples who went missing four days ago in the Brazilian Amazon after receiving threats. Brazilian authorities have been searching for Dom Phillips, a regular contributor to the Guardian newspaper, and Bruno Araujo Pereira since they disappeared during a ...

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Kishida pledges more security role in Asia

Bloomberg Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed his country would expand its security role in Asia, and seek to bolster the rules-based order in a speech at an international security forum in Singapore. In the first keynote presentation by a Japanese premier at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in eight years, Kishida said he would lay out a “Free and Open ...

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China all set to put tycoon seized in Hong Kong on trial

  Bloomberg A Chinese-Canadian tycoon who was seized at a Hong Kong hotel five years ago and has lost much of his sprawling business empire to the Chinese government is about to go on trial, the Wall Street Journal reported. Prosecutors in Shanghai plan to charge Xiao Jianhua with illegal collection of public deposits, the newspaper reported, citing people familiar ...

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