By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – Western countries face a dilemma as the U.N. Human Rights Council opens on Monday: confront China over human rights violations in its Xinjiang region and risk failing or miss the biggest opportunity to bring accountability in years. A report by the U.N. rights office on Aug. 31 found that …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) -About 200 people evacuated to higher ground after an earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck islands in western Indonesia on Sunday, causing some property damage, the country’s disaster mitigation agency BNPB said. The quake in the Mentawai Islands west of Sumatra struck at a depth of 27 km (17 miles) and was followed by …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Mainland China reported 1,303 new coronavirus cases for Sept. 10, of which 234 were symptomatic and 1,069 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Sunday. That compared with 1,380 new cases a day earlier – 290 symptomatic and 1,090 asymptomatic infections, which China counts separately. There were no new deaths, keeping …
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By Farah Master and Scott Murdoch HONG KONG (Reuters) – In Hong Kong, stringent COVID-19 curbs have long made life for school students extremely hard. Now, a new rule requiring higher vaccination levels could upend what progress has been made towards resuming full-day in-person classes. Further delays to normal school life are likely to exacerbate …
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By Michael Holden and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) -The state funeral for Queen Elizabeth will be held on Monday, Sept. 19, royal officials said on Saturday, as her son Charles was officially proclaimed Britain’s new king in a colourful ceremony laden with pageantry and dating back centuries. The death of the 96-year-monarch has provoked tears, …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol will attend the funeral for Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, his office said on Sunday. (Reporting by Josh Smith; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
By Asif Shahzad and Charlotte Greenfield ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday visited several areas of Pakistan ravaged by floods, calling for increased global financial support at the end of a two-day trip aimed at raising awareness of the disaster. Record monsoon rains and glacier melt in northern mountains have triggered floods that …
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KABUL (Reuters) – A Black Hawk helicopter crashed during a Taliban training exercise in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, killing three, the group’s defence ministry said on Saturday. “An American Black Hawk helicopter, which was flown … for training, crashed due to a technical problem inside the campus of the National Defence University,” said Ministry of Defence …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan and the United States are working on arranging a summit between Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and President Joe Biden in New York around Sept. 20 to discuss security issues in East Asia, Kyodo news reported on Saturday. China’s rising pressure on Taiwan, North Korea’s nuclear test threats and Russia’s invasion of …
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By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) – Five Hong Kong speech therapists were sentenced on Saturday to 19 months in jail for conspiracy to publish seditious children’s books, featuring cartoons of sheep and wolves that prosecutors had deemed anti-government. The five were convicted on Wednesday under a colonial-era sedition law in a case denounced by …
