By Ryan Woo, Martin Quin Pollard and Josh Horwitz BEIJING (Reuters) -Judging by Friday’s quiet streets in China’s capital Beijing and the reluctance of some businesses to drop COVID curbs, enduring anxieties about the coronavirus are likely to hamper a speedy return to health for the world’s second-largest economy. Although the government on Wednesday loosened …
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By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) – When North Korea lofted a missile over Japan in October, setting off emergency alerts across cell networks, Megumi Morohoshi made a decision: she was going to buy a bomb shelter. Morohoshi had been concerned about the ever-present danger from Japan’s earthquakes, and she had been wanting to expand the …
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China said on Saturday it would stop checking truck drivers and ship crew transporting goods domestically for COVID-19, removing a key bottleneck from its supply chain network as a dismantling of the country’s zero-COVID policy gathers speed. The country this week made a dramatic pivot toward economic reopening, loosening key parts of the …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – The Chinese foreign ministry said China and Germany had reached an agreement on providing “German vaccines” to German nationals in China, after the German Chancellor recently said that BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine would be used by German expatriates. Relevant arrangements will be discussed and determined by the two sides through diplomatic channels, Mao …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department will appeal the dismissal of a lawsuit against casino magnate Steve Wynn, who it accused of acting as a Chinese agent. Wynn defeated the lawsuit in October when a federal judge in Washington, D.C., said the casino tycoon could not be ordered to register with …
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(Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 struck the Mindanao region of the Philippines early Saturday morning, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake’s epicentre was at a depth of 60 km (37.28 miles), the EMSC said. EMSC had initially pegged the earthquake at 6.1 magnitude. (Reporting by Gokul Pisharody in Bengaluru; Editing by Leslie …
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By Michael Martina and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on dozens of people and entities over alleged rights abuses, including Russia’s Central Election Commission, Iranian officials and Chinese nationals. The U.S. Treasury Department said it imposed sanctions on Li Zhenyu and Zhuo Xinrong, both Chinese nationals, and 10 entities …
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By Naeem Abbas SIALKOT, Pakistan (Reuters) – Even though it is a cricket-mad nation, Pakistan is playing a big part in the soccer World Cup by making the balls used on the training fields in Qatar and the replicas sold to fans worldwide. Forward Sports, a multinational sports equipment company in the northeastern city of …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Friday called on the government of Bangladesh to fully investigate reports of violence against journalists and human rights activists ahead of a major political protest, and urged all parties to refrain from violence. Local media in Bangladesh this week reported police killed one person and wounded more than …
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RIYADH (Reuters) -Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman extended “personal mediation efforts” to facilitate the release of American basketball star Brittney Griner in a Russia-U.S. prisoner swap, the kingdom’s foreign minister said on Thursday. Washington has denied any mediation, saying the talks were between the United States and Russia, after a joint Saudi-UAE statement …
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