BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s COVID-related deaths between Jan. 13 and Jan. 19 this year in hospitals totaled 12,658, the country’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a statement on Saturday. Among them, 681 died of respiratory failure caused by the new coronavirus infection, and 11,977 died of other diseases combined with the …
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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is considering visiting Kyiv in February and holding talks with Ukraine’s President Volodomyr Zelenskiy, the Yomiuri newspaper said, citing Japanese government sources. As chair of the Group of Seven (G7) leading economies this year, Japan wants to show it intends to keep providing support to Ukraine while it …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – The possibility of a big COVID-19 rebound in China over the next two or three months is remote as 80% of people have been infected, a prominent government scientist said on Saturday. The mass movement of people during the ongoing Lunar New Year holiday period may spread the pandemic, boosting infections in …
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By Kwang JirapornKuhakan PHUKET, Thailand (Reuters) – An elephant camp in Thailand has purchased six new jumbos to welcome tourists and returning Chinese visitors, offering activities from elephant rides to elephant showers, the owner said. Pang Chang Kamala Elephant Camp on the resort island of Phuket is also adding programmes such as elephant care due …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -At least 28 people were killed in an avalanche in the city of Nyingchi in the southwestern region of Tibet, the official Xinhua news agency reported late on Friday. Rescue work at the scene is over, Xinhua said. Local authorities have sent a total of 1,348 people and 236 equipment to help excavate …
By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) – A funeral parlour in the Chinese city of Shantou published a tender recently for an “emergency purchase” of two cremation ovens, according to a government procurement database, one of several indications of COVID-19’s deadly toll. A funeral service centre in the Sichuan province city of Zigong explained the purchase …
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By Liz Lee and Alessandro Diviggiano BEIJING (Reuters) -People across China crowded into trains and buses for one of its busiest days of travel in years on Friday, feeding fears of new surges in a raging COVID-19 outbreak that officials say has hit its peak. In comments reported by state media late Thursday, Vice Premier …
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KABUL (Reuters) – U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed expressed alarm to Taliban officials in Kandahar over violations of women’s rights in Afghanistan, the United Nations said on Friday after she made a rare visit to the Taliban’s southern heartland. Mohammed finished a four-day visit to Afghanistan on Friday, also meeting Taliban officials in the capital …
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By Minh Nguyen and Thinh Nguyen HANOI (Reuters) – As China, Japan and other East Asian countries prepare to celebrate the start of the Lunar Year of the Rabbit on Sunday, the people of Vietnam will be an exception – welcoming instead the Year of the Cat. There is no official explanation for when and …
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By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) -A Uyghur rights group’s legal challenge against the British government for not investigating the import of cotton produced in the Chinese region of Xinjiang was dismissed by a London court on Friday. The World Uyghur Congress (WUC), an international organisation of exiled Uyghur groups, had taken legal action at London’s …
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