BEIJING (Reuters) -The number of trips taken over China’s three-day Mid-Autumn Festival holiday shrank, with tourism revenue also falling, official data showed, as strict COVID-19 rules discouraged people from travelling. The number of trips made by tourists fell 16.7% from a year earlier to 73.4 million trips during the holiday, which ended on Monday, according …
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By Tom Balmforth ZOLOCHIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukrainian forces swept deeper into territory seized from fleeing Russian troops on Monday and joyful residents returned to former frontline villages, while Moscow’s shells rained down on Kharkiv, setting off fires across the region’s main city. Ukraine’s general staff said its soldiers had recaptured more than 20 towns and …
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GENEVA (Reuters) -The head of a U.N. team of investigators on Myanmar said on Monday that Facebook has handed over millions of items that could support allegations of war crimes and genocide. The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM) aims to build case files for proceedings in national, regional or international courts. It was established …
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By Andrew MacAskill and Lindsay Dunsmuir EDINBURGH (Reuters) – King Charles and his siblings held a silent vigil at the side of their mother Queen Elizabeth’s coffin as it lay at rest in Edinburgh’s historic cathedral, with thousands queuing for hours to pay their respects to Britain’s longest-serving monarch. With their heads bowed, Charles, wearing …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) -A Thai court sentenced a political activist to two years in prison on Monday for insulting the monarchy, her lawyer said, after the activist was judged to have dressed as Queen Suthida during a street protest the court ruled mocked the royal family. It is a crime in Thailand to defame or insult …
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By Rachel More and Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The number of people forced into modern forms of slavery has risen by a fifth in recent years to around 50 million on any given day amid a surge in poverty and other crises, the U.N. International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Monday. More than a half …
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MANILA (Reuters) – A Philippines lawmaker has submitted a bill seeking to scrap a commission tasked with recovering billions of dollars in wealth plundered during the rule of the president’s late father, arguing it has “outlived it usefulness”. The Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) has since 1986 retrieved about $5 billion from the family …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – The death toll from a “significant” earthquake that struck Papua New Guinea on Sunday has risen to seven, the Pacific island nation’s police commissioner said, adding that it occurred deep below ground which limited damage. An initial earthquake of 7.6 magnitude struck the Markham Valley at 9:46am on Sunday, followed by a …
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s daughter on Monday called for “proper” medical care for her jailed father, three weeks into a 12-year sentence he is serving for corruption. Malaysia’s top court on Aug. 23 rejected an appeal by Najib, 69, to set aside his conviction on graft and money laundering …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan on Sept. 14-16, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Monday, in what would be his first official trip to a foreign nation since China all but shut its borders due to COVID-19. The visit will coincide with a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation …
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