BEIJING (Reuters) – Shanghai ordered residents across nine of the city’s districts and some smaller areas to do COVID-19 tests over July 26-28, the city government said on Monday, as sporadic local cases kept emerging in the Chinese commercial hub. Shanghai lifted a two-month lockdown in June but has registered double-digits daily cases in recent …
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By Philip Pullella ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) -Pope Francis said on Sunday he yearned to visit Ukraine, in his efforts to try and bring an end to a five-month-old war that he has repeatedly decried. “I have a great desire to go to Kiev,” the pope said when asked about a possible future trip …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Sunday launched the second of three modules to its permanent space station, in one of the final missions needed to complete the orbiting outpost by year’s end. A live feed on state broadcaster CCTV showed the 23-tonne Wentian (“Quest for the Heavens”) laboratory module launching on the back of China’s …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s banking regulator on Sunday said it is investigating an inspector at its bureau in Henan province, which has seen protests by depositors unable to retrieve funds following suspected fraud at a number of rural lenders. The inspector is suspected of “serious disciplinary violations and is currently under disciplinary review” and has …
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(Reuters) -China has issued stark private warnings to the Biden administration about a possible trip to Taiwan in August by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. The report cited six people familiar with the Chinese warnings as saying they were significantly stronger than the threats that Beijing has …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Mainland China reported 982 new coronavirus cases for July 23, of which 129 were symptomatic and 853 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Sunday. That compares with 817 new cases a day earlier – 164 symptomatic and 653 asymptomatic infections, which China counts separately. The bulk of the cases were …
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By Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) -Russian missiles hit Ukraine’s southern port of Odesa on Saturday, the Ukrainian military said, threatening a deal signed just a day earlier to unblock grain exports from Black Sea ports and ease global food shortages caused by the war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called the strike blatant “barbarism” showing Moscow …
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By Natalie Grover, John Revill and Jennifer Rigby (Reuters) -The rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak represents a global health emergency, the World Health Organization’s highest level of alert, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Saturday. The WHO label – a “public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC)” – is designed to trigger a coordinated international …
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Leaders of China’s government and the Communist Party have been vaccinated against COVID-19 with vaccines made in China, a health official said on Saturday. Zeng Yixin, deputy head of China’s National Health Commission, made the remarks at a press conference, without identifying the political leaders he mentioned. (This story corrects headline to …
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China’s Xinjiang on Saturday warned of more flash floods and mudslides and risks to agriculture as heatwaves swept across the region, accelerating the pace of glacial melt and posing hazards for its vast cotton production. China has been baked by above-normal summer heat since June, with some meteorologists blaming climate change. The excessively …
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