By Brenda Goh and Martin Quin Pollard SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – Shanghai reopened a small part of the world’s longest subway system on Sunday after some lines had been closed for almost two months, as the city paves the way for a more complete lifting of its painful COVID-19 lockdown next week. With most residents not …
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By Tom Balmforth, Pavel Polityuk and Terje Solsvik KYIV/OSLO (Reuters) -Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or concessions to Moscow on Saturday as Russia intensified an offensive in the eastern Donbas region and stopped providing gas to Finland. After ending weeks of resistance by the last Ukrainian fighters in the strategic southeastern city of Mariupol, Russia …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing reported 52 new locally transmitted symptomatic COVID-19 cases for May 21, down from 58 cases a day earlier, the local government said in a statement on Sunday. China’s capital also recorded 9 local asymptomatic cases, down from 12 previous day, it said. (Reporting by Martin Quin Pollard and Eve Wu; Editing …
BEIJING (Reuters) – The Chinese financial hub of Shanghai reported 570 new local asymptomatic coronavirus cases for May 21, down from 784 a day earlier. Confirmed symptomatic cases fell to 52 from 84 the previous day, the city’s government said in a statement on Saturday. There were zero cases found outside quarantined areas as with …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea reported more than 186,090 more people had fever symptoms and one more person had died amid the country’s first acknowledged COVID-19 outbreak, state news agency KCNA reported on Sunday. It did not report how many of those people had tested positive for the coronavirus. (Reporting by Josh Smith; Editing by …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt, Josh Smith and Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – President Joe Biden and his new South Korean counterpart agreed on Saturday to hold bigger military drills and deploy more U.S. weapons if necessary to deter North Korea, while offering to send COVID-19 vaccines and potentially meet Kim Jong Un. Biden and Yoon Suk-yeol …
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By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) – The World Health Organization is working on further guidance for countries on how to mitigate the spread of monkeypox, amid concerns cases could spike further in the summer months, a senior adviser for the U.N. agency told Reuters. The WHO’s working theory based on the cases identified so far …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) -Representatives of the United States and several other nations walked out of an Asia-Pacific trade ministers meeting in Bangkok on Saturday to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, officials said. The walkout was “an expression of disapproval at Russia’s illegal war of aggression in Ukraine and its economic impact in the APEC region,” one …
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By Eduardo Baptista and Laura Lin BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Shanghai cautiously pushed ahead on Saturday with plans to restore part of its transport network in a major step towards exiting a weeks-long COVID-19 lockdown, while Beijing kept up its defences in an outbreak that has persisted for a month. Shanghai’s lockdown since the beginning of April …
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PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Chinese dissident artist known as Badiucao shows his support for Ukraine in new work that has gone on show in Prague, while also taking aim at the leaders of Russia and China. The China-born political cartoonist and artist, who goes by a pseudonym and has drawn comparisons to graffiti artist Banksy, …
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