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By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) -China on Thursday accused a committee of British lawmakers visiting Taiwan of “gross interference” in China’s internal affairs and threatened a forceful response to anything that undermines Chinese interests. The Chinese embassy in Britain issued a statement responding to the ongoing visit to Taiwan by the British parliament’s Foreign Affairs …

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Dutch prosecutors said on Thursday they would not file an appeal regarding the outcome in the trial over the 2014 downing of Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine, making the verdicts final although the suspects remain at large. A Dutch court last month convicted three men and sentenced them to life in prison for …

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By Aidan Lewis CAIRO (Reuters) -Egypt plans to award deals next year to build 21 water desalination plants in the first $3 billion phase of a programme that will draw on cheap renewable energy, the CEO of the country’s sovereign fund said on Thursday. Egypt, which recently hosted the COP27 U.N. climate talks and is …

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By Julie Zhu HONG KONG (Reuters) – China will allow some people who test positive for COVID-19 to quarantine at home, among supplementary measures to be announced in coming days, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Home isolation for the infected would be a significant change in China’s quarantine protocols. Earlier this …

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By Bernard Orr and Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) -China is set to announce in coming days an easing of its COVID-19 quarantine protocols and a reduction in mass testing, sources told Reuters, a marked shift in policy after anger over the world’s toughest curbs fuelled widespread protests. Cases nationwide remain near record highs but …

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By Poppy McPherson BANGKOK (Reuters) – At least 2,000 pro-democracy fighters have been killed in Myanmar battling a military junta that seized power last year, the head of a parallel civilian government said in an interview aired on Thursday, urging allies to provide military aid. Duwa Lashi La, acting president of the National Unity Government …

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By David Stanway and Xihao Jiang SHANGHAI (Reuters) -As China works to raise COVID-19 vaccination rates among its elderly, essential if the country is to open up again and live with COVID, many older people remain fearful that the treatment will make them sick. “If I were fit for vaccination, I would definitely get it,” …

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BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Chinese newspapers turned their front pages black on Thursday and flags were put at half mast in mourning for the death of former president Jiang Zemin, while well-wishers laid piles of bouquets outside his childhood home. Jiang died in his home city of Shanghai just after noon on Wednesday of leukaemia and multiple …

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BEIJING (Reuters) -China will strengthen strategic communication and coordination with the European Union, President Xi Jinping told the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, on Thursday. In a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in the Chinese capital, Xi told Michel he hoped “EU institutions and member states will establish an objective …

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