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New COVID model predicts over 1 million deaths in China through 2023

17 Dec 2022

By Julie Steenhuysen and Deena Beasley CHICAGO (Reuters) – China’s abrupt lifting of stringent COVID-19 restrictions could result in an explosion of cases and over a million deaths through 2023, according to new projections from the U.S.-based Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). According to the group’s projections, cases in China would peak around …

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Pacifist Japan unveils biggest military build-up since World War Two

16 Dec 2022

By Tim Kelly and Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan on Friday unveiled its biggest military build-up since World War Two with a $320 billion plan that will buy missiles capable of striking China and ready it for sustained conflict, as regional tensions and Russia’s Ukraine invasion stoke war fears. The sweeping, five-year plan, once unthinkable …

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U.N. shelves bid by Afghan Taliban, Myanmar junta for representation

16 Dec 2022

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations General Assembly on Friday approved postponing – for the second time – a decision on whether the Afghan Taliban administration and the Myanmar junta can send a United Nations ambassador to New York. The 193-member General Assembly approved without a vote the decision by the …

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Magnitude 4.3 earthquake shakes Afghanistan -Pakistan seismic agency

16 Dec 2022

KABUL (Reuters) – A 4.3 magnitude quake shook southeastern Afghanistan on Friday evening, according to neighbouring Pakistan’s seismic recording agency. Shaking was felt by Reuters witnesses in the Afghan capital, Kabul. The quake was recorded at a depth of 120 kilometres by the National Seismic Monitoring Centre of Pakistan’s meteorological department in Islamabad. It was …

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Chinese leaders vow to prop up COVID-battered economy as virus spreads

16 Dec 2022

By Kevin Yao and Albee Zhang BEIJING (Reuters) – President Xi Jinping and his senior officials pledged to shore up China’s battered economy next year as the deaths of two veteran state journalists highlighted the worsening spread of COVID-19 in the capital Beijing. Xi and his leaders ended their two-day Central Economic Work Conference with …

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North Korea tests high-thrust solid-fuel engine for apparent ICBM development

16 Dec 2022

By Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea has tested a high-thrust solid-fuel engine that experts said would allow quicker and more mobile launch of ballistic missiles, as it seeks to develop a new strategic weapon and speeds up its nuclear and missile programmes. The test, overseen by leader Kim Jong Un, was conducted on …

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Fiji military says will not intervene over election after opposition complaint

16 Dec 2022

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Fiji’s military chief said on Friday his forces will not intervene over a national election that took place on Wednesday, after opposition leaders wrote to him raising concerns over vote-counting. International election observers said on Friday they had not seen any significant voting irregularities, adding that an initial anomaly with the app …

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Malaysia campsite landslide kills 21, including children

16 Dec 2022

By Ebrahim Harris and Rozanna Latiff BATANG KALI, Malaysia (Reuters) -A landslide killed at least 21 people, including children, while they slept in their tents at an unlicensed campsite in Malaysia on Friday, officials said, as search teams scoured thick mud and downed trees for survivors. The landslide in Selangor state bordering the capital, Kuala …

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Factbox: What will Japan’s military build-up look like?

16 Dec 2022

By Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan unveiled a new national security strategy on Friday along with details of its biggest military build-up since World War Two, in a marked shift away from the pacifism that has dominated its political discourse for seven decades. The changes, which come as tensions grow with neighbouring China, Russia …

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