BEIJING (Reuters) – China administered about 7.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines on Dec 9, bringing the total number of doses administered to 2.583 billion, data from the National Health Commission showed on Friday. (Reporting by Beijing newsroom; Editing by Christopher Cushing)
LONDON (Reuters) – The Chinese embassy in London said an unofficial tribunal of lawyers which accused Beijing of genocide against the Uyghurs was nothing more than a political tool of China’s enemies which were spreading lies. The unofficial tribunal of lawyers and campaigners said on Thursday that Chinese President Xi Jinping bore primary responsibility for …
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s weather bureau said on Friday the La Nina phenomenon is continuing and that there is a 60% chance it will prevail through the end of the Northern Hemisphere winter and an 80% chance the conditions will end in spring. Last month, it said the La Nina phenomenon appears to be in …
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) – COVAX, the global vaccine-sharing network, needs a new set of rules in the long term to prevent the hoarding of vaccines by high income and vaccine-producing countries, a senior advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. COVAX, which is co-led by the WHO and the Global Alliance …
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MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines will ban entry by people who have recently travelled to Portugal in an effort to stop the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, the acting presidential spokesperson said on Friday. The order, which adds Portugal to a list of 15 countries subject to a similar travel ban, will take …
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore has detected its first locally transmitted case of the COVID-19 variant Omicron in a member of staff at the city state’s airport, authorities said late on Thursday, warning that more Omicron cases are likely to be detected. The 24-year-old Singaporean woman, who works in a service role in the airport, “may …
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(Reuters) – Nicaragua on Thursday broke its longstanding diplomatic ties with Taiwan, switching allegiance to Beijing in a recognition of the Chinese Communist party’s One China policy and reducing Taipei’s dwindling pool of international allies. “The government of the Republic of Nicaragua today breaks diplomatic relations with Taiwan and ceases to have any contact or …
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By Sayed Hassib and Ahmad Massih KABUL (Reuters) – In the biting cold of a Kabul autumn, Hadia Ahmadi, a 43-year-old teacher who lost her job after the Taliban seized the Afghan capital in August, sits by the roadside trying to earn the equivalent of a few cents polishing shoes. The abrupt withdrawal of foreign …
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By Yew Lun Tian and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) – China is not worried about a “domino effect” of diplomatic boycotts of the Beijing Winter Olympics, it said on Thursday, after Australia, Britain and Canada joined the United States in deciding not to send officials to the Games. The United States was the first to …
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By Simon Lewis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden gathered over 100 world leaders at a summit on Thursday and made a plea to bolster democracies around the world, calling safeguarding rights and freedoms in the face of rising authoritarianism the “defining challenge” of the current era. In the opening speech for …
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