By Siyi Liu and Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) -Streets in major Chinese cities were eerily quiet on Sunday as people stayed home to protect themselves from a surge in COVID-19 cases that has hit urban centres from north to south. China is in the first of an expected three waves of COVID cases this winter, …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – The majority of Japanese people do not support raising taxes to fund military expansion, Kyodo reported on Sunday, citing a survey the news agency conducted after the government announced Japan’s biggest military build-up since World War Two. Japan on Friday announced a $320 billion military spending plan to buy missiles capable of …
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By Mei Mei Chu and Yuddy Cahya Budiman KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Malaysian police have called in staff members from an unlicensed campsite to assist in an investigation into a landslide that flattened the camp grounds and killed at least 24 people, as the search for missing people continued for a third day on Sunday. The …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Mainland China reported 2,097 new symptomatic COVID-19 infections on Dec. 17, compared with 2,286 a day earlier, the National Health Commission said on Sunday. Excluding imported infections, China reported 2,028 new local symptomatic cases, down from 2,229 a day earlier. China stopped reporting asymptomatic cases from Wednesday, citing a lack of testing …
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By Alessandro Diviggiano, Ryan Woo and Winni Zhou BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Hearses bearing the dead lined the driveway to a designated COVID-19 crematorium in the Chinese capital on Saturday while workers at the city’s dozen funeral homes were busier than normal, days after China reversed tight pandemic restrictions. In recent days in Beijing the spread …
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By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) -Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan announced on Saturday that his party would dissolve two provincial assemblies next week, earlier than scheduled, in an attempt to build pressure on the federal government to hold early general elections. Khan has campaigned for snap polls since being ousted from power in …
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By Mei Mei Chu and Yuddy Cahya Budiman KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Rescue teams searching for survivors from a landslide that tore though a campsite in Malaysia recovered the bodies of a woman and two children on Saturday, officials said, raising the death toll to 24. The landslide in Batang Kali, a popular hilly area about …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai temples held prayers and senior leaders including the prime minister visited a hospital on Friday to wish a quick recovery for the eldest child of King Maha Vajiralongkorn, who collapsed earlier in the week with a heart condition. Princess Bajrakitiyabha, 44, lost consciousness early on Wednesday in the northeastern province of …
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MANILA (Reuters) -Philippine communist leader Jose Maria Sison died on Friday night at the age of 83 after a two-week confinement in a hospital in the Netherlands, his party said on Saturday. Sison is the founder of the Philippine Communist Party, whose military wing – the New People’s Army (NPA) – has been waging an …
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By Gloria Dickie MONTREAL (Reuters) – Tangled expanses of Amazon rainforest, high mountains of the Himalayas, and cloud-shrouded forests are just some of the unique landscapes contained within the world’s most nature-rich nations. And protecting these ecosystems, experts say, could help save the planet. Governments are trying to work out a new global agreement to …
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