BEIJING (Reuters) -Heavy rain is expected to hit central and southern China over the next few days as the expansive rain belts of a weakening typhoon sweep inland from the country’s southern coastline. Over the weekend, China’s first typhoon of the year bought heavy rain and wind to several southern provinces already water-logged from weeks …
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By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) – With an out of work husband, housewife Sujeewa Nelum Perera is all too familiar with the struggle of feeding a family of four in Sri Lanka and has been forced to cut down on the number of meals they consume amid record high food prices. Perera’s husband, an autorickshaw …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese-Canadian billionaire Xiao Jianhua, who went missing in Hong Kong five years ago, was due to go on trial in China on Monday, the Canadian embassy in Beijing said. China-born Xiao, known to have links to China’s Communist Party elite, has not been seen in public since 2017 after he was investigated …
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Parts of eastern China are running fresh rounds of mass COVID-19 testing, as the country faces new waves of infections while recovering from impact of the spring outbreaks that hit Beijing and Shanghai. China continues to demand local authorities detect and contain new infections as soon as possible in its “dynamic COVID zero” …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) -Macau kicked off a new round of COVID-19 testing for its more than 600,000 residents on Monday, as officials in the world’s biggest gambling hub raced to limit spiralling infections in the city’s worst outbreak since the pandemic began. All residents face three rounds of tests this week, in addition to rapid …
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By Tom Balmforth and Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) -Russia said it had taken full control of the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk on Sunday after capturing the final Ukrainian bastion of Lysychansk, the city where Kyiv said it had withdrawn to save the lives of its troops. The region’s capture, a major Russian war aim, …
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By Olzhas Auyezov and Mark Trevelyan ALMATY (Reuters) -Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said on Sunday there were casualties among civilians and law enforcement officers after rare protests in the Central Asian country, and an exiled opposition politician said at least five people had been killed. Separately, a local government official told an Uzbek news website …
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ALMATY (Reuters) – Thousands of people have been hospitalised after unrest in the capital of Uzbekistan’s autonomous Karakalpakstan province, Uzbek news website Daryo.uz cited a local official as saying on Sunday. It quoted Sultanbek Ziyayev, the head of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, as saying that hospitals in the city of …
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By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka is struggling to raise $587 million to pay for about half a dozen fuel shipments, a top minister said on Sunday as the cash-strapped country tries to cope with its worst financial crisis in decades. The country of 22 million people is unable to pay for essential …
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QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – A passenger bus plunged into a ravine in southwestern Pakistan on Sunday killing 20 people, a government official said. The road crash also injured another 13 people aboard the bus that was travelling from garrison city of Rawalpindi to Quetta, the capital of southwestern Balochistan province, said Ijaz Jaffar, deputy commissioner …
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