BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday that there were no Chinese police posts located overseas, in response to questions on reports of secret Chinese police stations. Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said at a regular briefing that China has always abided by the principle of not interfering in foreign countries’ domestic affairs. (Reporting …
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By David Stanway and Nancy Lapid (Reuters) – China’s narrow criteria for identifying deaths caused by COVID-19 will underestimate the true toll of the pandemic’s current wave there and could make it harder to communicate the best ways for people to protect themselves, foreign health experts warn. Only deaths caused by pneumonia and respiratory failure …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The U.N. Security Council adopted its first resolution on Myanmar in 74 years on Wednesday to demand an end to violence and urge the military junta to release all political prisoners, including ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Myanmar has been in crisis since the army took power from …
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(Reuters) – A zoo in Memphis, Tennessee, is returning two giant pandas that had been on loan from China for 20 years, prompting celebrations by animal advocates who said the health of the animals had deteriorated due to neglect. The announcement on Wednesday came after months of criticism by In Defense of Animals and other …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States, the European Union and 11 foreign ministers condemned the Taliban’s decision to ban women from universities in Afghanistan, according to a joint statement issued on Wednesday. Foreign ministers for Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom joined Washington and the EU …
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By Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Charlotte Greenfield KABUL (Reuters) – Female university students in Afghanistan were turned away from campuses on Wednesday after the Taliban-run administration said women would be suspended from tertiary education. The decision to bar women was announced on Tuesday evening in a letter to universities from the higher education ministry, drawing …
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By Thomas Peter and Alessandro Diviggiano BEIJING (Reuters) – Dozens of hearses queued outside a Beijing crematorium on Wednesday, even as China reported no new COVID-19 deaths in its growing outbreak, sparking criticism of its virus accounting as the capital braces for a surge of cases. After widespread protests, the country of 1.4 billion people …
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By Thomas Escritt and Alexander Ratz BERLIN (Reuters) -Berlin has sent its first batch of BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines to China to be administered initially to German expatriates, a German government spokesperson said on Wednesday, the first foreign coronavirus vaccine to be delivered to the country. No details were available on the timing and size of …
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By Manas Mishra and Nandhini Srinivasan (Reuters) -China may be struggling to keep a tally of COVID-19 infections as the country experiences a big spike in cases, a senior World Health Organization official said on Wednesday, amid concerns about a lack of data from the country. Official figures from China have become an unreliable guide …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Nepal’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the release of Charles Sobhraj, a French national known as the “bikini killer” who police say is responsible killing over 20 young Western backpackers across Asia during the 1970s and 1980s. Here are some facts about Sobhraj: * Sobhraj, 78, was born to an Indian father …
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