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Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1000 GMT, Feb. 22

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SEOUL -- South Korea's foreign ministry on Thursday denounced Japan for its renewed territorial claim for Dokdo islets, called Takeshima in Japan, lying halfway between the two countries.

The ministry said in a statement that the South Korean government strongly protested against the Japanese cabinet's dispatch of a senior-level official to an event hosted by a local Japanese government, which claimed its sovereignty over the Dokdo islets. (S. Korea-Japan-Islands)

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NEW DELHI -- Indian authorities Thursday froze equities and seized nine luxury cars belonging to disgraced billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi and his firms in connection with the country's biggest-ever bank fraud of 1.8 billion U.S. dollars.

"We have frozen shares and mutual funds of Modi and his jewellery companies. The seized luxury cars include Porsche Panamera, Rolls Royce Ghost and Mercedes Benz," a senior official of India's Enforcement Directorate told the media. (India-Fraud)

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SEOUL -- A former aide to former South Korean President Park Geun-hye was sentenced Thursday to two and a half years in prison for seeking to conceal the corruption scandal leading to Park's impeachment.

The Seoul Central District Court sentenced Woo Byung-woo, former senior presidential secretary for civil affairs, to two and a half years in jail for multiple charges including abuse of power and the concealment of misdeed. (S. Korea-Corruption)

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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan -- At least eight Taliban militants were killed and a local Taliban commander was arrested following an Afghan Special Operations Forces operation in the country's northern province of Balkh, local police said Thursday.

"The raid was launched early Thursday morning in Noshira area of Chamtal district, leaving eight Taliban militants dead and a Taliban divisional commander named Mullah Akhtar arrested," Sayyed Sarwar Housaini, spokesman of 707 Pamir Police Zone based in the region, told Xinhua. (Afghanistan-Militants) Enditem

 

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