By Yiming Woo CHUHUIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -A Russian strike hit the northeast Ukrainian town of Chuhuiv in Kharkiv region overnight, killing three people and wounding three others, the regional governor said on Saturday. The strike damaged a two-storey residential building, a school and a shop, Governor Oleh Synehubov and the police said. Sitting on a …
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By DAE-WOUNG KIM and Yeni Seo SEOUL (Reuters) – Thousands of South Koreans took part in an LGBT festival in downtown Seoul on Saturday, as Christian and conservative groups held a rally in protest across the road. Dubbed Seoul Queer Culture Festival, about 13,000 people were estimated to have participated as of about 3pm local …
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By Uditha Jayasinghe and Devjyot Ghoshal COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka’s ousted president, who fled overseas this week to escape a popular uprising against his government, has said he took “all possible steps” to avert the economic crisis that has engulfed the island nation. Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s resignation was accepted by parliament on Friday. He flew to …
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Saturday she had productive meetings about a proposed price cap on Russian oil with a host of countries on the sidelines of a meeting of the finance chiefs of the Group of 20 major economies. Yellen said her bilateral meetings and the overall G20 …
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) – IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva on Saturday warned officials from the Group of 20 major economies to take urgent action to combat inflation, warning that the “exceptionally uncertain” global economic outlook could turn worse if higher prices persisted. Georgieva, speaking at a G20 finance officials meeting in Indonesia, said Russia’s intensifying …
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) – Finance leaders of the group of 20 major economies agreed on most issues, including efforts to tackle food insecurity, despite failing to reconcile differences regarding members’ views about the war in Ukraine, Indonesia said on Saturday. Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said the G20 finance leaders in their meeting …
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(Reuters) – Nine people were shot dead in Indonesia’s easternmost region of Papua in an attack believed to be perpetrated by armed separatists, police said on Saturday. Police in the provincial capital of Jayapura told local media the incident, the deadliest in recent years, occurred on Saturday morning in the remote highland area of Nduga. …
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(Reuters) – The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Saturday that it has asked the International Cricket Council (ICC) to devise a way to regulate the growth of lucrative Twenty20 leagues with rising concerns about its impact on the sport’s calendar. South Africa this week pulled out of a three-match bilateral one-day series in Australia …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Macau’s government will extend a lockdown of casinos and other businesses until Friday, as authorities grapple to stop the spread of COVID-19 in the world’s biggest gambling hub, according a statement on its website. The lockdown in the Chinese special administrative region had been due to end on Monday. Macau imposed …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy destroyer sailed near the disputed Spratly Islands on Saturday, the U.S. Navy said, its second such “freedom of navigation” operation in a week in the South China Sea. On Wednesday, China’s military said it had “driven away” the same ship, the USS Benfold, when it sailed near the disputed …
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