By Zoey Zhang and Bernard Orr SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -A Shanghai hospital has told its staff to prepare for a “tragic battle” with COVID-19 as it expects half of the city’s 25 million people will get infected by the end of next week, while the virus sweeps through China largely unchecked. After widespread protests against strict …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) – India, one of the world’s biggest drug makers, is ready to step up exports of fever medicines to China as it reels from a spike in COVID-19 cases, the chairperson of an Indian drug export body said on Thursday. China’s sudden easing of strict COVID-19 rules earlier this month triggered a surge …
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By Emma Farge and Bernard Orr GENEVA/BEIJING (Reuters) – The World Health Organization has received no data from China on new COVID-19 hospitalisations since Beijing lifted its zero-COVID policy, prompting some health experts to question whether it might be hiding information on the extent of its outbreak. However, the WHO has said gaps in data …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain on Thursday condemned North Korea after the United States said the nation had supplied arms to the Russian mercenary group Wagner to bolster Russian forces fighting in Ukraine. “The fact that President Putin is turning to North Korea for help is a sign of Russia’s desperation and isolation,” British foreign minister …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Gender persecution may amount to a crime against humanity, said a statement by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Thursday on behalf of the Group of Seven (G7) wealthy nations’ foreign ministers. The G7 strongly condemned the Taliban’s decision to ban women from universities, which taken with other measures by the Taliban …
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By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) -Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer who police suspect was responsible for a string of murders in the 1970s and 1980s, will be freed from prison in Nepal on Friday after nearly 20 years behind bars, a jail official told Reuters on Thursday. Sobhraj, 78, a French national, is suspected of …
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – India will start randomly testing 2% of international passengers arriving at its airports for COVID-19, Mansukh Mandaviya, the country’s health minister, told parliament on Thursday, as the country steps up surveillance for new coronavirus variants. “The global pandemic is not yet over.. The virus is changing its face from time to time,” …
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TOKYO/BEIJING (Reuters) -The government in Tokyo is investigating a report that China has set up covert police stations inside Japan, amid similar checks by authorities in European countries, the United States and Canada. Safeguard Defenders, an Asia-focused rights group based in Spain, has published two reports since September alleging that Chinese authorities have established 102 …
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(Reuters) – Russia accused Japan on Thursday of abandoning decades of pacifist policy and embracing “unbridled militarization”, responding to a $320-billion defence plan announced by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida last week. “It can be clearly seen that Tokyo has embarked on the path of an unprecedented build-up of its own military power, including the acquisition …
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MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines’ defence ministry on Thursday ordered the military to strengthen its presence in the South China Sea after monitoring “Chinese activities” in disputed waters close to a strategic Philippine-held island. The ministry did not specify what activities those were and its statement follows a report this week of Chinese construction on …
