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By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s top lawmaking body on Monday debated legislation to give women more protection against gender discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace, state media reported, outlining rules including a clearer definition of inappropriate behaviour. The standing committee of the country’s parliament, the National People’s Congress, deliberated a draft …

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ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish and Qatari officials will meet in Doha on Monday night and later travel together to Kabul to discuss a formal deal to operate the Afghan capital’s airport with the ruling Taliban, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said. Turkey has said it would be open to operating Kabul’s Hamid Karzai international airport along …

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By Deena Beasley (Reuters) – A growing number of countries are reducing the wait time for COVID-19 vaccine boosters from six months to as few as three in a bid to ward off a new surge in infections from the Omicron variant. They are reacting to early evidence suggesting that Omicron is spreading faster than …

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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia has added the United Kingdom, Norway and Denmark to the list of countries banned from entering the Southeast Asian nation due to the spread of COVID-19, while Hong Kong has been removed, a senior minister said on Monday. Minister Luhut Binsar Panjaitan said the countries had been added to the list …

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By Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK (Reuters) – Some Thais who had scrambled to book private hospital appointments to receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine have taken to social media to resell their slots after an influx of free government-supplied shots in recent weeks. A Facebook group with about 4,800 members, called Moderna First Lot Reservations, had users …

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TOKYO (Reuters) – A cluster of coronavirus infections linked to a U.S. military base in Japan has grown to at least 180, Japan’s government said on Monday, raising fears over the spread of the virus in the community. A Japanese worker at Camp Hansen on the southern island of Okinawa was found positive with the …

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